Inspire Future Generations Awards 2025
2025 Entries are closed now!
Final Submission Deadline: Monday, 27 October by Midnight
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This year, we've revised some of the Inspire Future Generations Awards categories and introduced exciting new ones. Categories are spread across three sections, explore them below. To access the submission form, simply click on 'Start your entry' under your preferred category/ies.
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PROJECT SECTION
Regeneration (NEW)
Projects where young people play a meaningful role in shaping regeneration, from public spaces to housing, through participatory design /planning that delivers impact.
Skills development (NEW)
Initiatives fostering the knowledge, skills, and learning experiences of children and young people in engaging with the built environment.
Strategic Vision (NEW)
Strategic visions and planning frameworks where the voices of children and young people are enabled.
Climate Change
UK based projects empowering children and young people to tackle environmental challenges through hands-on activities, education, and creative action promoting environmental responsibility, sustainability or community resilience.
Culture / Education (NEW)
Projects harnessing the creativity of children and young people to explore, interpret, or reimagine through innovative and expressive approaches (such as storytelling, performance, or multimedia). Learning activities and creative projects that may not be directly tied to a specific space, but still inspire new ways of engaging with the world.
Healthy Spaces
Projects, initiatives, and policies that create built, public and natural environments which support healthier lives and reduce health inequalities. Initiatives that make neighbourhoods more active and inclusive.
Material resources and research
Creative outputs such as articles, research projects, short films, games, or digital resources that inspire engagement of children and young people in the built environment.
Community Engagement
Programmes and activities enabling active participation in and enriching the social, cultural, or environmental life of their local communities.
International Award for Climate Change (NEW)
International projects addressing environmental challenges through practical activities, education, and creative initiatives.
Best of University (NEW)
Outreach activities led by higher education institutions that build students’ skills in engaging with children, young people, or communities, and deliver meaningful connections between academia and public life.
Best of Development Company
Developers, housing associations, investors who with the initiatives they have commissioned or encouraged, create outstanding activities that engage children and young people in built environment issues.
Best of Local Authority
Local authorities that has developed one or more relevant built environment related programmes for children and/or young people.
Best of Built Environment Practice
Practices that embed children and young people in their social value commitments and strategies/projects, demonstrating a commitment to positive impact within the built environment.
Best of Not for Profit Organisation
Not for profit organisations with one of its primary aims is to produce built environment programmes for children and young people.
Young Talent (previously - Emerging Individual)
An emerging individual practitioner, whether they work independently or as part of a team, who has made an excellent contribution to our theme ‘Inspiring Future Generations’.
Individual of the Year (previously - Established Individual)
An established individual practitioner, whether they work independently or as part of a team, who has made an excellent contribution to our theme ‘Inspiring Future Generations’.