LUSH Spring Prize 2023 opens for applications

From 1st August 2022 – 19th September 2022, regenerative organisations, community groups, businesses and other projects from around the world can apply to the LUSH Spring Prize 2023.

The Prize awards and celebrates those repairing the earth’s damaged systems, helping to leave the world Lusher than they found it. It seeks to increase the capacity of communities and societies to thrive in harmony with nature and each other, building healthy and resilient ecosystems and livelihoods.Application forms are available to download from the Lush Spring Prize website (www.springprize.org) and entries close at 10:00 GMT 19th September 2022.

Launched in 2017, the Lush Spring Prize is now in its fifth year of celebrating and awarding prizes to groups working toward eco-social regeneration. It is a joint venture between Lush Cosmetics and Ethical Consumer, and has distributed more than £820,000 to date. It was set up to support ‘regenerative’ projects – those that go beyond sustainability by taking holistic approaches to building the health of ecology, economy and social systems. By supporting regenerative projects, the Spring Prize hopes to raise the profile of the movement as a whole to inspire more individuals, groups, communities, funders and businesses to start engaging with regenerative processes.

Prize Categories

The 2023 Lush Spring Prize will award at least 11 prizes across 4 different Spring Prize categories: from the Intentional stage, through to Young and Established organisations, and for Influence. Applicants can also be considered for two collaborative prizes: the Ancient and Indigenous Wisdom Award, and the Permaculture Magazine Award.

Nominations

The Lush Spring Prize will also be running a nomination system whereby anyone can nominate a project, organisation or individual that they feel is doing amazing regenerative work. The Spring Prize team will contact all nominated projects and invite them to apply. The deadline for nominations is 2nd September 2022 10:00 GMT.

Searching for a Lush Customer and staff judge

Each prize year, the Spring Prize team welcomes one Lush customer and one Lush staff member onto the Spring Prize judging panel. These people will work with the other Spring Prize judges (who collectively represent different regenerative movements) to choose prize recipients from a shortlist of around 50 Spring Prize applications. Customers and staff can apply to join the judging panel using this form, between the 1st and 22nd of August. https://bit.ly/springprizejudge23

Regenerosity is a collaboration between the LUSH Spring Prize and the Buckminster Fuller Institute Fuller Challenge, and other partners, driven by the inspiration of seeing the thousands of applicants from across the world doing the planet's most important work of regeneration.

The work and stories of shortlisted projects will be published on the Spring Prize website and prize recipients will be invited to a celebratory co-learning event taking place in May 2023. To apply or for further information, descriptions of and links to all previous prize recipients and shortlisted projects please visit www.springprize.org.