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By registering for Grounds for Optimism you now have access to all the resources you need to develop a successful submission and gain a Grounds for Optimism Bronze Award for your school.

10 Bronze Award schools per region will receive a Silver Award and access to free support from a landscape architect to develop their designs and refine and cost them.

Winners of Silver Award grants will be invited to a regional event to present their final plans and be judged by a panel of top professionals. The design in each region judged to be the best will receive a Gold Award, a superb trophy and fantastic 3D CAD software for their school from Vectorworks and Computers Unlimited worth over £3,000 (over £40,000 commercially).

Additionally, there will be one Green Award chosen for the design which encompass the best ideas regarding sustainability and the environment.  The winning school will receive a superb trophy and a full Sustainabilty and Renewals Report from XCO2 Energy (Carbon Engineers) worth over £5,000.

What next?

Begin by browsing the web pages here to get a good idea of where you are going, then simply follow the 4 steps to success and use the Grounds for Optimism checklist to the right to guide you as you go. You can tick the checklist after completing each stage and it will remember this for the next time you log in!

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