Guidance for Pre-Qualification Round
From 2024, Global Good Award entrants will need to provide an initial summary of their entry (maximum length: 200 words) for the ‘pre-qualification’ stage.
Submitted as part of your full application, this must include all essential key information, since each summary will be checked by our team to ensure that the entry meets the basic standards required to go forward to the full judging panel. This summary is part of your full application, so no extra work is required on your part.
Be as short and concise as possible and avoid writing it like you would for a website or PR purposes.
What do we mean by key information?
We’ve taken some real examples from previous entries (these are 100 words) to give you an understanding of what we will – and won’t – be looking for.
Example summaries that would pass through the Pre-qualification round:
Tubeho Neza (“Live well”) is providing high performance stoves, free, to 2.3 million rural Rwandan households. The stoves use 71% less wood than traditional open fires. On project completion 8.6 million tons CO2 and 64km2 forestry will be saved annually. An integrated comprehensive education and support programme for every household is delivered by a team of over 5,000 Community Health Workers. This means behaviour change is lasting: 2 years after receipt 99% stoves are in daily use. Innovative technology and financing through the sale of carbon credits produced by the stoves makes Tubeho Neza uniquely self-sustaining and scalable.
Last Halloween, a terrifying 22 million pumpkins were set to go to waste, meaning around £32 million worth of food would go in the bin. With their ‘Eat Your Pumpkin’ campaign, Hubbub captured the spirit of Halloween and engaged a mainstream audience who might not normally consider taking sustainable action. The campaign reached 11.5 million across cinema, social, digital and PR. Community groups saved over 5 tonnes of food with ‘Eat Your Pumpkin’ events.
When war broke out in Ukraine, LUX MED, Bupa’s private healthcare business in Poland, was swift to act. Within 24 hours, all of LUX MED’s healthcare facilities across Poland were providing refugees with both emergency and ongoing medical care – all free of charge. Since February 2022, LUX MED has provided 360,000 separate health interventions to 201,000 refugees and employed 240 healthcare workers. Bupa Group and LUX MED are committed to providing free medical support to Ukrainian refugees for as long as needed and will continue to support Ukrainian medical professionals into working careers across Poland and the Bupa network.
KPMG are committed to becoming a zero-waste business – eliminating all avoidable waste from our operations by 2030. We’ve made good progress in reducing the amount of waste we produce, removing over 8 million items of single-use plastic across our estate, reducing our paper consumption by 74% and overall waste by 24% in the past three years. By investing in circular solutions and focusing on reuse we have created co-benefits for our communities too – with our surplus food creating more than 7,000 meals and schools and charities across the UK benefiting from our refurbished technology.
Examples of summaries that would be unlikely to pass through the Pre-qualification round:
Our company is on a journey to make environmental and social changes that become part of our DNA. We are considering accreditations whilst managing our own ambitious targets we have set for ourselves to make us stand out amongst our competitors. Currently pending BCorp and Breaam accreditations. Our whole team are involved in the journey including charity days through to purchasing responsibly.
The management team of {omitted name} has worked tirelessly over the last ten years to create a positive impact upon the environment. {omitted name} is a centrally located prestigious office building in London. Whilst energy is deemed the most significant environmental risk at this site (and has formed part of the focus of their sustainability strategy), the management team has recognised the opportunity to positively impact upon the environment in terms of conservation, habitat and diversity. While this may seem odd for an office property, the team are passionate about the Environment.
Established in 2013, {omitted name} was founded as the UK’s first {omitted sector} company. Our mission is to harness our communications expertise to promote charities and businesses dedicated to doing good in the world. The team comprises seasoned professionals with extensive backgrounds in {omitted sectors}. Our collective experience equips us with a unique understanding of {omitted job function} needs and enables us to adhere to the core principles of speed, fairness, and accuracy.