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Competitions and Offers!

You've come to the right place if you are looking for freebies. Here you will find opportunities to win exclusive food growing resources (e.g. seeds, tools, materials) and training for your school, as well as offers and funding opportunities. Look out for offers and enter our competitions to win!

Current FGSL partner competitions and offers

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Other offers and information

Competition winners!

 Grow on, film it! Trees for Cities/Edible Playgrounds/Growathon/FGSL

Grow on, film it!

As part of the Food Growing Schools: London Growathon challenge Edible Playgrounds is asking pupils in London to make a short film about food growing at their school. It doesn’t matter whether the school has a small window box of herbs or a big garden such as an Edible Playground - we just want to know what they are growing, who is growing and why food growing is fun. The aim of the competition is to showcase London's fabulous growing schools and give pupils the opportunity to get creative behind the camera and excited about growing at their school. 

Short Film Competition

Make a short film about planting, sowing, growing, gardening, and harvesting healthy food at school! Join Edible Playgrounds and 50,000 young London growers for Food Growing Schools: London #Growathon – the biggest school food growing challenge of the year!

Prizes

  • 1st £500 worth of gardening and growing equipment
  • 2nd £100 worth of gardening and growing equipment
  • Every school submitting a short film will receive a seasonal growing pack

Trees for Cities patron and horticulturalist Chris Collins will judge the winning film, which will be announced in the summer term.

  • Registration Deadline: Fri 10th Jun.
  • Submission Deadline: Fri  17th June.
Enter now! Visit: www.edibleplaygrounds.org/grow-on-film 

Showcase your growing: the Marketplace competition

Showcase your growing: Marketplace competition

This year all Marketplace schools can apply to enter the ‘Showcase your Growing’ competition. This competition will be a chance to show us how you have grown and nurtured your school garden to prepare for the marketplace with pictures, recipes and stories!
The entries will be judged on the day of the Marketplace and the winning school will be awarded a great prize including a great set of Bulldog Tools, a certificate and much more.

You will need to create and bring at the Marketplace one A2 sheet displaying the following:

  • Your school name and logo
  • Pictures of your plots and pupils caring for the plants
  • Pictures of pupils and / or school staff harvesting and weighing your produce
  • Pictures of pupils and school staff baking and making produce out of your garden fruits and veg
  • A mix of any of the following: recipes, growing tips and stories about your school garden

The Marketplace is an event organise by Capital Growth in partnership with Food Growing Schools: London. It is part of FGSL wider initiative the Growathon.

Give it a Grow

Register on the Garden Organic’s Give it a Grow pledge page. Explore the resources!

Garden Organic are encouraging everyone to 'Give it a grow' and grow something tasty you can eat.

Taking part is easy. If you've not grown your own before then make a pledge and choose to grow one of our recommended vegetables. If you have grown before but want to help others then first make a pledge, then recruit a new grower, download the growing cards and help them make their first attempt a success.

The Growing Cards:

The simple and easy-to-use instruction cards are great for those new to growing. Garden Organic has selected 10 of the most popular fruit and vegetables which are simple to grow, delicious to eat, and will grow happily and healthily in a pot.

We would love to see your pledge in action – so if you want to upload and tag us in any photos, then please go ahead!

Your pledge will go towards the NEW GROWATHON target of 50,000 young growers in London, supporting the Food Growing Schools: London project! So what are you waiting for? Loads of great Garden Organic resources are online for FREE!

Subscribe now to GIAG!

The Harvest-ometer Challenge

Harvestometer Challenge

This year Capital Growth is challenging schools to grow as much as they can and measure it using our Harvest-ometer, a simple online tool designed to track how much food your school grows and how much money your garden is worth.

The Harvest-ometer Challenge!

We will support schools throughout the year with growing tips, training, competitions and more. In July 2016, at the end of the competition we will award prizes to schools in the following categories:

  • Most food grown per square meter·
  • Biggest range of produce·
  • Growing School Hero

All schools taking part in the Harvest-ometer Challenge will receive a support pack including seeds, lesson plans, growing instructions, and much more.

Competition Prizes

Prizes will be awarded to the top school for each of the categories listed above. The winning schools will also be reserved a place at our October 2016 School Marketplace at City Hall. Main prizes include:

  • A mini orchard and apple press
  • Visit from a professional beekeeper
  • A chicken coop and one rescued chicken

Runner up schools for each category will also receive a prize. Every school that takes part in the Harvest-ometer Challenge will receive a Growing Certificate in July highlighting how many pupils were involved in the school garden and how many kilograms of food were harvested at the school.

Capital Growth Competitions

 

Rocket Gardens School Veg Pledge

 

Rocket Gardens want to help 1000 schools grow food and are crowdfunding to make it happen.Schools can register their interest and will be chosen to receive a tailored spring and autumn Rocket Garden if the campaign reaches its funding target.  The gardens are boxes bursting with organic vegetable seedlings - just plant them out to create an instant vegetable patch.

Capital Growth, through its work with Food Growing Schools: London, is helping  Rocket Gardens to get schools registered and people involved.

For your chance to receive two seasonal gardens for your school

  1. Log in to the Capital Growth members area  (not a member? Join here)
  2. Click on the Veg Pledge box
  3. Check your details and answer three short questions

Once registered, your school will have the chance to receive a garden if the crowdfunding campaign is successful. You can help the campaign by promoting the School Veg Pledge to your school's community and supporters.

Watch the video!

Teach a Man to Fish - School Enterprise Challenge

A student-led, business start-up competition for schools around the world. The competition guides and supports teachers and students to set up real school businesses, creates socially responsible young entrepreneurs and helps students generate profit for their school, or social cause of their choice.

Deadline: Enter now for 2016! www.schoolenterprisechallenge.org/participate/participate-register

RHS Photo of the Month competition

Have your photo displayed on the RHS Campaign for School Gardening website and win a prize! Every month RHS select a photo to become their Photo of the Month. Photos can be of your whole school garden, part of the garden, your latest crop, your gardening pupils - anything! The winner will be notified and sent some gardening goodies.

Deadline: Ongoing - competition takes place every month! https://schoolgardening.rhs.org.uk/Competitions

Other Offers

Free AirSensa unit* to every urban school in the UK

Deliver Change is a not-for-profit organisation looking to make cities healthier, more liveable and economically productive - mainly through innovations in technology.

AirSensa is our first major project, looking to combat the issue of urban air pollution by creating a geographically dense network of outdoor air quality monitors (40,000 in the UK) to visualise air quality down to individual street level.

Our Educational Programme is offering a free AirSensa unit* to every urban school in the UK, which includes access to the real-time data and related educational materials.

Why is air quality a problem? Outdoor air pollution causes more than 30,000 premature deaths a year in the UK, exacerbates and causes illnesses and costs the economy £53 billion a year; children are amongst those affected most.

Interested in receiving a free AirSensa for your school? Go to www.deliverchange.org/academic.php & click on Get An AirSensa. For more information download an AirSensa PDF.

SFP What Works Well

What Works Well - win £100 & inspire other schools.

If your school are already doing great work around school food, why not become a What Works Well host and earn £100 for each school you host? Share your experience with infant schools looking to develop their food culture as part of the new School Food Plan & UIFSM provision (Universal Infant Free School Meals). Your school will be paid £100 for every visit you host, with visits being grouped where possible. So hosting 5 schools on one day could earn your school £500! Click here to register to become a host school. (School Food Plan and Food For Life Partnership)

Donate money, items and skills to schools...

With the School Funding Network, donors can offer anything that might be of interest to a school, whether they are a local business offering free products or a native speaker offering language help. Check the major donor challenges section to find current school gardening offers and opportunities.

www.schoolsfundingnetwork.co.uk

Competition judge - BBC TV Gardener Chris Collins

 

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