Climate Change Champion Award
The 2025 Awards Programme
is open for entries!
We are delighted to be offering the Climate Change Champion Award in 2025 – entries are now open. We will provide any updates about the Awards’ programme here on the website or through our social channels – Twitter and LinkedIn.
What is the Climate Change Champion Award for?
This Award was introduced in 2021 to mark the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) being held in Glasgow. The important role of forests was underlined in the Glasgow Leader’s Declaration on forests and land use supported by more than 140 countries. Scotland’s forests and woodlands can have an important role in mitigating, and responding to, climate change.
This exciting new Award aims to discover the very best examples of such woodlands and how knowledge and experience can be shared to raise awareness. CarbonStore was the initial sponsor of this Award.
Who can enter?
Entries will be sought from across Scotland and are open to any forest, woodland or a school or pre-school climate change related learning project. Could the exemplary work you are doing related to forests and woodlands addressing climate change make you one of this new Awards’ early winners?
Eligible entries will be where Scotland’s forests and woodlands can demonstrate they have an important role in the:
- clear objectives to mitigate climate change and adapt to the changing climate with climate smart management and
- sharing of knowledge/information or raising awareness (including education) about climate change.
Full entry criteria for 2025 are stated in the entry form and Guidance for Entrants – see link below.
Judging
The judges aim to visit short-listed entries during the summer. You will be contacted by the judges directly to arrange any site visit.
Prizes
A £1,000 cash prize together with one year’s custody of the superb trophy will be available at the discretion of the judges to the Scotland’s Finest Woods Awards’ 2025 Climate Change Champion. The winner and any commended entries will receive a certificate and a commemorative wooden plaque recording their achievement.
How to enter Climate Change Champion Award
Do you have a winning project in 2025? Download the short entry form below. After reading the How to Enter and Guidance for Entrants, complete the entry form if your project satisfies all the criteria, referring to the Supporting Information and Images section in the guidance. In no more than 1,000 words state why you think your entry could make a worthy winner of this timely and prestigious Award and be an exemplar to others by providing relevant information specific to the entry criteria and giving consideration to the questions posed by the judges. You may include relevant supporting information especially videos and photographs with your entry to help our judges in their decision making – further details stated in Guidance for Entrants.
If eligible, you may enter more than one category (up to three – please check each category form for specific questions).
- download Word document – or
- download PDF version
Closing date for entries:
Please submit your application by email as early as possible and by 23:59 on Saturday, 31st May 2025 at the latest. Late entries will not be considered.
More info …
See list of previous winners here >>
Contact person:
Jean Nairn, Executive Director, Scotland’s Finest Woods
Email: admin@sfwa.co.uk
Tel: 07954 847055 (leave message)
Socials: Twitter; LinkedIn
