The Ashden Awards || A Boost for Climate Innovators
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The Ashden Awards accelerate climate innovation, helping businesses, charities, governments, and others power up their impact in the UK and low-income nations. We back organizations that advance social justice while lowering emissions.
This year’s Ashden Awards will boost climate innovators transforming the world of work – those delivering roles and skills for the UK’s low-carbon transition and the spread of clean energy around the world, or making every job a green job.
Benefits
- Winning an Ashden Award brings a prize of up to £25,000 as well as ongoing development support, from professional mentoring to pro-bono legal help.
- The award puts winners in front of funders, investors, policymakers, journalists as well as others who know the unique value of an Ashden Award and the strength of our rigorous assessment process.
- Moreover, the award creates a promotional film about your work and tells your story in mainstream and specialist media, and through its growing digital channels.
- As an award winner, your views, needs, and insights will be at the heart of Ashden’s influential reports, toolkits as well as events that shape the views of key climate decision-makers.
- In addition, all winners join the Ashden network giving them the chance to connect with new partners through masterclasses, investor pitching events, and introductions to influential policymakers.
Eligibility
- Businesses, NGOs, government organizations, and social enterprises are all eligible.
- The work submitted for an award must be currently available to customers, clients or beneficiaries.
- The applicant must show an innovative approach to their work.
- Also, the applicant’s work must have the potential to create significant impact.
- Applicants must be willing to work with Ashden and others to achieve this goal.
- The applicant must show good governance and management.
- In addition, organizations can be for profit or not-for-profit. However, winners must have sustainability embedded in their values and practices.
How to apply?
- By 15 March 2022, you will need to have registered your interest as well as completed the full application form that follows.
- Winners will be announced in Autumn 2022 (date TBC).
- Apply in English using the online application portal here. The application portal includes the option gives you the option to answer some of the questions by recording a video message rather than filling in a form.
- Moreover, to apply in French, Spanish, or Portuguese, email [email protected] and ask for a form in the relevant language.
Awards Catagories
UK Awards
- Energy Innovation
- Skill in low carbon sectors
- Greening all Work
International Awards
- Energising refugee livelihoods
- Energy Access Skills
- Energising Agriculture
Specifications
| Type of Opportunity | Competitions and Awards Entrepreneurship Events |
|---|---|
| Deadline | 15 March,2022 |
| Field | spreading of clean energy around the world |
| Open to | climate innovators |
| Organizer | Ashden |
| Contact the organizer | [email protected] |