Roots & Shoots UK Awards 2014 - Coming Soon!

This year's Jane Goodall's Roots & Shoots UK Awards are to be held on 1 December 2014 at London Zoo. The awards recognise achievements by young people in the UK to help people, animals and the environment. It's been a really strong year for entries across all our categories and we're really looking forward to the awards day where the winners will be announced in the presence of Jane Goodall herself and other special guests. Thanks to our sponsors we have some really great prizes on offer this year, including:

• The 'Most Outstanding Photograph Award' sponsored by National Geographic Kids Magazine. Our lucky winner gets the chance to be a Nat Geo Kids' reporter for a day!
• The 'Individual Endeavour Award' sponsored by Quest Overseas. The winner of this prize gets a fully funded place on one of Quest Overseas' summer projects.
• The highly coveted 'Most Outstanding Group Award' sponsored by the RSPCA. The winning group gets to spend a day behind the scenes at one of the RSPCA's animal hospitals.

Congratulations to all our attendees on the brilliant work they have done to help people, animals and the environment this year. Here is the list of this year's award nominees and links to some of the great work they have been doing over the past year:

Accrington St Christopher’s Church of England High School

2013's Gold Award winners are still going strong and this year organised  a sustainability conference for schools across the country, culminating in a Trashion show!

Eastbury Comprehensive School

Fund raising for Amnesty, cleaning up their local environment, Eastbury have been busy!

Liverpool John Moores University

Fundraising for Greenpeace, conservation trips to New Zealand and human chains in Germany!

Cañada Blanch Instituto Español de Londres

Bake sales and kitchen gardens, these guys have been doing the lot!

Malin Bridge Primary School

Whether it's recycling and real cycling, Malin Bridge have been working hard to promote a cleaner, healthier local environment.

Evendons Primary School

A great example of people power, these guys have set up their own school!

Babington Community College

Babington College have been hard at work planting trees for their very own orchard.

Chowbent Primary School

Another group hard at work in the garden, the gardening club has been growing everything from healthy snacks for the tuck shop to remembrance day poppies.

James Allen Girl’s School

Fundraising, energy saving and even bush craft, the James Allen school has been doing it all.

Sandfield Close Primary School

Sandfields have been identifying bees and planting trees!

The New Forest School

Learning about Fair Trade, recycling, raising money for the RSPB, the New Forest School has been up to all manner of good work!

Portway Junior School

Previous gold award winner Portway Junior School have been super busy again this year, not least working with Andover Trees United.

Walhampton

Walhampton have been searching for mini-beasts, setting up a kitchen garden and lots lots more!