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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!

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 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 10,000 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.

How to Enter
Visit: www.edibleplaygrounds.org/grow-on-film for details on how to enter and for your chance to win!

Entries close: Friday, June 17, 2016

 

Give it a Grow on Twitter!

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!

 

Give it a Grow

 

Harvestometer Challenge

The Harvest-ometer 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

 

 

Food for Life Grandparent Gardening Week Competition!

 

Taking place from 14th-18th March 2016, Food for Life, managed by the Soil Association, is running our first national Grandparent Gardening Week.

Hosting gardening activities in school is a great way to reach out and engage grandparents, carers and local residents (including local allotment holders) in school activities, and to get gardens in tip top condition along the way!  

Competition prizes           

Participating Food for Life schools are invited to take part in a competition to blog about their Grandparent Gardening event, with the best blog winning a Vegtrug.

Deadline

Closing dates: midnight on Monday 18th April 2016.

Find out more on: http://www.foodforlife.org.uk/whats-happening/grandparent-gardening-week

 

The competition is managed by our partners Soil Association, a partner of Food Growing Schools: London.

RHS Rocket Science

Grow seeds that have been to SPACE!

Turn your pupils into space biologists

Official applications are now open for you to get your hands on a pack of rocket seeds that have been to space!

On Wednesday 02 September, 2kg of rocket seeds were launched to the International Space Station on Soyuz 44S where they will remain for several months before returning to Earth (hopefully) in March 2016.

The seeds have been sent as part of Rocket Science, a project launched by the RHS Campaign for School Gardening and the UK Space Agency. The project is giving up to 10,000 schools the chance to grow the seeds in 2016 and compare them with seeds that have remained on Earth.

Successful applicants will receive a teaching resource pack (suitable for all ages) containing the seeds, a step-by-step guide to the experiment, a wallchart to record results, stickers and more.

To apply you must be from a UK school or educational organisation/group for young people and you must be a member of the RHS Campaign for School Gardening.

  • If your school is not a member, it's free to join and can be done here.
  • If your school is a member but you don't know the log in details, please .
  • If you don't qualify to take part, there will be additional activities to download and we encourage everyone to follow the experiment as it progresses.

Before you apply please ensure you have read all the information on the first page before applying. As these seeds are highly sought after and this is a large scientific experiment, we ask you only apply if you are fully committed to running the experiment following the correct protocol.

We are very excited to give you this opportunity and we hope you have lots of fun taking part. Be sure to wave at the seeds if you happen to see the ISS flying by!

CLICK HERE TO APPLY FOR ROCKET SEEDS!

The Campaign for School Gardening Team

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 Gardener Chris Collins
Competition judge - BBC TV Gardener Chris Collins

Competition winners

Discover the winners of our previous Grow Your Own competitions!

  • Schools Marketplace Competition - part of Grow Your Own Business 2015 activities (Autumn 2015)
  • Grow Your Own School Garden Competition - a Grow Your Own Picnic 2015 Competition (Summer Term 2015)
  • Grow Your Own Picnic 2015 Photography Competition (Summer Term 2015)
  • Grow Around the World Competition - a special prize as part of the Grow Your Own Lunch competition (Spring Term 2015)
  • The School Enterprise Garden Competition - a 'Grow Your Own Business 2014' Competition (Autumn Term 2014)

Find out who the winning schools were here: Competition Winners

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