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The Appetite for Action Competition

Win £3,000 and the chance to feature on TV on Sky Real Lives

This year we are giving our winning schools another chance to do something exciting with Sky and Global Action Plan. Not only will they receive £3,000 for their school, the overall winner will also have the opportunity be on TV!

Be a real life green hero

There will be one winning primary school for each of the five participating countries - England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and Republic of Ireland - all of whom will receive £3000 for their school.

In addition, one of these schools will be chosen as the overall winners and they will be visited by Sky Real Lives. Action team members will be the stars of a short film that will be shown on Sky Real Lives in summer 2010.

Last year’s overall winners, St. Mark’s Primary School Wigan won £3,000 and a visit from the Sky News crew for the day.

Read more about them and our other winning schools from 2008/09.
Last year's winners, St Mark's CofE Primary School in Lancashire, enjoy a visit from the Sky crew as part of their prize.

Sky Real Lives is the channel dedicated to telling extraordinary stories about ordinary people. Covering stories about triumph over adversity, living with a medical condition, addiction, weight issues and baby and plastic surgery stories. There is something that’s bound to grab your interest.
Sky Real Lives is the only television channel dedicated to bringing ordinary people’s extraordinary stories to life and is available on channel 243 and in HD on channel 278.

Entry criteria

It couldn’t be easier to enter our competition. As you progress through the challenge all the data and entries you make will be stored on your profile page. Once you have completed step 4 you will be invited to enter the competition automatically, provided you have done the following:

  • Created a team profile (minimum of a Team name and five team members)
  • Completed Step 1-Measure
  • Completed at least five actions (marked as complete on Action Plan)
  • Completed at least five diary entries
  • Completed Step 4-Measure your success
  • Achieved a measurable positive improvement for at least one key measure.  For more on what the key measures are see here.

Competition dates

Friday 11th June 2010 - Competition entry closes

Wednesday 16th June 2010– country winners announced

Wed 16th - Fri 18th June 2010 - Showcase/review of country winners

Mon 21st June 2010 - Final winner announcement

22nd/23rd/24th June 2010 – Prize day!

Judging criteria for Country Winner

Schools will be shortlisted for their country based on:

  • Depth and quality of diary entries
  • Creativity of action ideas
  • Sustainability of changes
  • Evidence of involvement of parents and the wider community
  • Environmental improvement

Judging criteria of overall Winner

Demonstration of how changes are embedded into the whole school culture.


The Appetite for Action programme has been developed in partnership between the leading environmental behaviour change charity Global Action Plan and Sky. Global Action Plan has run the Action in School programme successfully with over 300 schools, helping them to make small changes that make a big difference. The Appetite for Action programme with Sky will allow many more schools to benefit from the process.