Applications for the Green Life Awards were categorised into Best Environmental Contribution by a Business, a School, a Community Group, a Not-for-Profit organisation, Young Person, Major Project and a special category for the Best Contribution to tackling Climate Change.
Judges were impressed by the quality and variety of applicants this year, demonstrating the commitment to the environment shown by a wide variety of people and organisations around Leicester.
Overall Winners
Winner: Transition Leicester
2nd: Konnect9 Giving World Online
3rd: Leicester College Sustainability in Catering
Business Winners
Winner: Trustees of Hamilton Sustainable Urban Drainage Scheme
Runner Up: Taylor Bloxham Ltd
Community Group
Winner: Friends of Bennion Pools
Runner Up: Transition Leicester
Not For Profit
Winner: Konnect9 Giving World Online
2nd Runner Up: LCC Standards and Development Team Grow Your Own Grub Competition
3rd Runner Up: LCC/Groundwork Leicester & Leicestershire Market Cycle Couriers
School
Winner: Leicester College Sustainability in Catering
2nd Runner Up: Montrose School Respect the Planet Live Green
3rd Runner Up: Riverside Business & Enterprise College Riverside Land based Studies
Major Project
Winner: LCC Upperton Road Viaduct Redevelopment
2nd Runner Up: University of Leicester David Wilson Library
3rd Runner Up: Leicester College Carbon Reduction
Young Person
Winner: Divyesh Tailor and Ashley Whitehead
Climate Change
Winner: Transistion Leicester
Runner Up: Leicester College Carbon Reduction