Community and City Pride

Have you helped to make your local environment look cleaner and greener?

Do you know someone who works tirelessly to improve their local surroundings?

Do you want the chance to come to a glittering award ceremony and win great prizes?

If the answer is yes, you need to enter the Community and City Pride awards!

Now in its sixth year, this scheme is building on the successes of previous years, where over 22,000 people across 170  entries have shown the amazing things that the residents of Leeds do to improve the environment where they live, work, study or socialise.

Projects could be run by

• local charities
• community groups
• individuals
• schools
• students
• businesses working with the community

and could be

• clean ups
• recycling schemes
• reuse or waste minimisation projects
• community garden creation
• any other small scale environmental project.  

This year’s categories are:

• Reduce and Reuse Project of the Year
• Recycling Project of the Year
• Small Area Improvement Project of the Year
• Larger Area Improvement Project of the Year
• Green Space Creation Project of the Year
• Business and Community Partnership Project of the Year
• Engaging Under 11s Project of the Year
• Engaging Under 18s Project of the Year
• Under 18s Individual Contribution of the Year
• Over 18s Individual Contribution of the Year

Closing date for all competition submissions is the 30 October 2009.

How do I enter the competition?

A submission form needs to be completed for the category you are entering along with a summary document (no more than 1500 words long), telling us about your project. Supporting evidence including photos needs to be provided as part of your entry. If you need any help completing your entry, please contact us.  You can submit entries for projects carried out since November 2008.

Please take lots of pictures of your work, especially before and after.  You can include any work done since November 2008.

W can help you with your scheme, with ideas, by lending you equipment or with help in getting in touch with other people in your area who may want to join in.  Unfortunately we are unable to provide skips but community groups can have a Hippobag delivered and collected for free, subject to availability.  To order a Hippobag you must contact them directly, see the flyer available for download on the right hand side of the screen.

You do not need to enter the competition to borrow equipment from us.

If you wish to find out about sponsorship opportunities for the awards night, please contact us at the details on the right.

For further information, or to request information to be sent to you when it is available, please contact us.