A Glasgow primary school will be helping to feed local struggling families after winning big in a UK-wide competition.
Our Lady of Peace primary school, based in the East End of the city, recently won £1,000 after coming first place in the OVO Foundation Nature Prize.
The competition, which was run in partnership with the Lets Go Zero campaign, saw schools come up with their own initiatives to help students and their communities connect with nature and increase access to the outdoors.
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A group of primary seven students from the Barlanark school grabbed the top spot with their idea to create an inclusive gardening club.
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Run by the school's oldest pupils, the garden will harvest food for the school’s most vulnerable families struggling with the cost-of-living crisis and increased food prices and will also help to tackle the poverty attainment gap by giving students from deprived backgrounds a chance to learn necessary skills for the world of work.
Older students will also lead sessions for younger students, allowing them to pick what is grown and teaching them valuable skills in food growing.
Hannah Howard, head of OVO Foundation said: "We want to ensure all children and young people, but especially those in underserved communities, have access to nature - and we also know that students want to be equipped with the skills, knowledge, and opportunities to protect it.
"Our Nature Prize and the wider Let’s Go Zero campaign, is a brilliant catalyst for schools to kickstart climate action in school grounds and in every classroom.
"The winning projects will see their innovative ideas come to fruition, yet every school can gain inspiration from what’s possible with limited resources but a vision for a greener, brighter future for the next generation."
To find out more about the other winning projects, click HERE
The OVO Foundation Nature Prize will run again in 2024, with details announced on the Let’s Go Zero Twitter feed HERE
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