New Competition Is Right Up Our Street

Budding photographers are being offered £10,000 worth of prizes for the best pictures of wildlife and people looking after their local environment. The new competition has been launched in a bid help boost recycling activity in the South Bucks area.

The national ‘Love where you live' photo competition is sponsored by the not for profit recycling organisation Alupro to celebrate the quarter of a million trees they have grown in the UK and Africa, thanks to more and more people recycling their aluminium drinks cans and foil. Alupro plant a tree for every tonne of aluminium recycled.

South Bucks District Council is signed up to the scheme and supports the competition which encourages people to take action in their local communities.

To enter the competition, all you have to do to is to take a single photograph that shows why you Love Where you Live, and which also illustrates the importance of caring for the environment. The competition wants to encourage amateur photographers to look with fresh eyes at their surroundings, and aims to inspire people to do what they can to look after it. The shortlisted entries will be exhibited in April 2010.

“This is a great reason for people to stop and look around them, and see just how important it is to look after the environment ” says Councillor Bill Lidgate, South Bucks District Council’s Portfolio Holder for the Environment, “and with some fantastic prizes to be won it’s well worth getting out your camera and having a go.”

The £10,000 prize pot covers six UK regions, including prizes for schools and under 18s, with a top award of £3,750. There are two prize categories: ‘local landscape and wildlife’ and ‘people having an impact on where we live’.

Full details can be found at www.lovewhereyoulive.org.uk. (Opens new window to external site) The competition is open to amateur photographers only. The closing date for entries is February 28, 2010.