Let’s Go Zero competitions
OVO Foundation Nature Prize
OVO Foundation and Let’s GO Zero have teamed up to improve children and young people’s access to nature and biodiversity. OVO Foundations 3 year project with Let’s Go Zero will award 25 schools a year across the UK a cash prize of £1,000 or £200 for projects that bring their students closer to nature.
By inspiring climate action in these schools, the project will bring over 37,000 children closer to nature!
For a chance to win schools were simply asked to submit their ideas for projects. It was a bonus if these projects fell within the key areas identified by Let’s Go Zero for effective carbon reduction: Nature, Food, Adaptation and Resilience, Water, Culture, and Waste.
2024 winners
From food waste wormeries, to wasteland community gardens and rewilding projects, be inspired by these awesome schools winning cash to take action for nature.
This year's competition
We received a phenomenal 230 applications from schools across the UK looking to bring their pupils closer to nature.
Many thanks to everyone who has applied, our team are so excited to see all of the wonderful ideas you have for projects in your schools!
We know that you will have made this a really tough decision for the judges, but we will be back in touch after Christmas break with our decision on the 10 x £1,000 and 15 x £200 winners!
IKEA X Let's Go Zero competitions
The IKEA X Let’s Go Zero school competition is a three-year competition kickstarting fantastic green projects in schools that slashed waste, boosted nature and super-charged climate learning.
Each year, four schools were chosen as the cream of the crop and were sent an IKEA sustainability bundle worth £1,500 for their project.
By sharing their carbon-busting plans, schools could snag themselves one of three sustainability kits – a swap shop, a sustainability hub, or outdoor learning equipment.
To be in with a chance of winning, schools had to upload a short video with students and teachers telling judges why their school was an eco leader, the work they’ve already done in sustainability, a little about the students who would use the space, and how winning would transform the school and community.
The 2024 winners
The winning projects range from squeezing new life out of preloved school uniforms, repair and reuse workshops, mental-health-boosting nature connection spaces, and an eco-learning events facility.
“We’ve had a huge amount of feedback from parents and carers on how valuable the uniform shop is, and we work hard to ensure there is no stigma around using it – people are using it with sustainability in mind. We work closely with our local charity shop who donate shoes and uniform and jackets to us, and we have parents who volunteer to help run the shop, as they can see how much value it has within our community. Thank you so much again for making it possible.”
Headteacher from Beith Primary School.
Cymraeg 
English (UK)