Earth Day Heroes
We’re calling on young people with a passion for the planet to enter our exciting competition to raise awareness and take action on environmental issues.
Earth Day Heroes
We’re calling on young people with a passion for the planet to enter our exciting competition to raise awareness and take action on environmental issues.
What is Earth Day Heroes?
As part of Earth Day celebrations around the world, we invite young people to become an Earth Hero and create a local project to raise awareness and take action on environmental issues that matter to them. Using creativity, problem solving, and learning from other young people, we encourage young people to respond positively to the problems they see in the world around them, developing global citizens and improving health, wellbeing and the climate.
How can you be involved?
Download your free action pack
The pack will help you support your young people to identify a way or ways that they can take action to make a difference – in their school, their neighbourhood or in their wider area.
Enter your Earth Day project
Entries to the 2025 competition are now closed.
Entries for the 2026 competition will open in October – watch this space!
Come to the Earth Day Heroes Awards Ceremony
Be inspired by the winning projects in the 2025 competition by bringing your young people to the Awards Ceremony on 30th September 2025 10-12 at Sparks Bristol. With a talk by BBC’s Naomi Wilkinson, and a clay modelling workshop by Aardman Animations, your young people will be buzzing with ideas for their own Earth Day project!
To come please email : workshops@sparksbristol.co.uk
FAQs
➤ How much time will it take to complete?
The action might be a one-off event such as tree planting, or making a poster, or writing campaign material which can be completed in one or two lessons/sessions. Or young people may wish to undertake a much longer project that suits their group or class. We hope you and your young people will enjoy taking part.
➤ How do we enter?
Deadline for applications this year are now closed. The deadline for 2026 applications is 31st May 2026
All details are in the Earth Day Heroes Action Pack, so download it today!
➤ Are there prizes?
YES! All projects that are entered will be recognised at an Awards Ceremony at Sparks Bristol on 30th September 2025 10am-12pm. At the ceremony, all projects will receive a bronze, silver or gold award, and the winners will receive a trophy for their group.
Awards will be given for inspirational projects in each age category on the following themes:
- Water
- Transport
- Biodiversity
- Energy
- Recycling and waste
- Food, sponsored by Bristol Fairtrade
There will also be a Judge’s special recommendation for a project they recognise as being of huge value in your area, no matter how small!
The project will be promoted through the media – inspiring others in the city and beyond.
➤ Need more support?
One of our educators will be happy to help you start your project, just email workshops@sparksbristol.co.uk.
Earth Day Heroes is a joint project between Global Goals Centre, Green Schools Project, Bristol Education Partnership and Black 2 Nature.
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