Sustainable communities could win £10,000 in Future Friendly competition

By PRSD, on Friday, July 22, 2011

Future Friendly: Proctor and Gamble’s sustainable competition has cash on offer for sustainable initiatives

Only days remain for individuals and communities to enter Proctor and Gamble’s 5th Future Friendly Awards before the deadline at midnight on Sunday, July 24. For local communities the prize is a bursary worth £10,000 to fund their work, or a sustainable family holiday for individual environmental heroes.

Future Friendly wants to encourage every household in the UK to do their own ‘inspired little acts’ so they can save resources and money and also appreciate how small, everyday changes in the home can turn into a united wave of sustainable change from street to town to region.

Shortlisted winners from 12 regions of the UK and Ireland will each receive £1,000, from which one national winner will be awarded a £10,000 bursary to help support their efforts.

And this year, Little and Big Heroes’ aged under and over 18 respectively, are being rewarded for their sustainable efforts too. An overall winner in each category will receive a sustainable holiday for five worth £1,000.

Past community winners have ranged from an online ‘swap shop’ for baby equipment, an invention to help measure water consumption and last year’s winners, the Project Group from Shropshire who recycle waste into eye-catching fashion and art pieces.

Other Future Friendly community winner, the 1st Clanfield Scout Group from Hampshire, used its £10,000 bursary to install two solar panels, restore the surrounding paddock, and set up indoor disabled facilities to encourage the use of the building and grounds for people with special needs.

Entries close at midnight on July 24. The public will vote online for their favourite community project and from our 12 regional winners, a panel of expert judges will choose one national winner as well as our Little and Big Heroes.

To enter the awards, simply submit your short entry of no more than 500 words, together with your name and email address on the Future Friendly site.