The Observer Ethical Awards are all about celebrating the UK’s environmental champions and you could be a winner.

It’s the fifth year of the awards, in association with Ecover, and they feature a special prize for children who are doing their bit to help the planet.

Last year’s joint winners of the Ecover Ethical Kids Award were the students at Pendle Community College for their work restoring their local nature reserve, Lomeshaye Marsh.

The other joint winners were Stockbridge Junior Rangers, a team of children intent on turning the Stockbridge village estate from a place known for vandalism and deprivation into a biodiverse wildlife zone.

So if you’re a green god or goddess then you could be in with a chance of winning the Ecover Ethical Kids Award this year. The awards are looking for a similar spirit, dynamism and commitment to turning the planet into the sort of place young people actually want to inherit. You could be working on your local environment, like the Stockbridge Junior Rangers, or looking at issues such as fairtrade or climate change on a global scale.

The 2010 Ecover Ethical Kids Award winner will get a bursary from Ecover of £2,000 a year for three years and the awards will be judged by a panel of experts, including TV presenters Kate Humble and Ben Fogle.

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