From Wednesday, 1 July to Friday, 31 July, we're inviting YOU to take the jump and reduce your carbon footprint. Choose from the challenges below and get started!
Sign up to take part
The challenges
End clutter
Show us something you’ve given a new lease of life, repaired, or found a new home, rather than throwing it away or buying a replacement.
Holiday local
submit your best local holiday snaps!
Eat green
Reduce food waste: plan your meals and incorporate three extra plant-based meals per week. Submit recipes and photos of the meals, using seasonal and locally sourced produce.
Dress retro
Share an item you’ve got from a charity shop that you’re proud of! What’s the oldest clothing item you still wear!? Tell us its story.
Travel fresh
Local journeys - show us where you’ve been, using public transport or pedal power! Or bonus points for counting your steps and sending us a screenshot of how much you’ve been walking instead of driving!
Change the system
Make one life shift, here are some ideas:
- Join a local or national sustainability campaign
- Make your home more energy efficient
- Write to your MP to promote sustainable policy in your area
- Publish some online content advocating for a sustainability issue or topic
- Plus, there are loads of ideas on the Take the Jump page.
How does it work?
- Choose which of the six challenges you'd like to do and sign up for them (you can choose as many as you like!)
- At the end of July, email your entry to oustudents-projects@open.ac.uk (your entry can be anything that showcases your efforts, like a poster, a collage, a colection of images, or even a video diary!)
- Our student judges will choose one winner from each challenge (they'll look for students that have made a real environmental impact and taken significant steps to reduce their carbon footprint)
Throughout July, you'll be sent emails to remind you about the challenge, with some tips on what you could do!
Sign up to take the jump!
The prizes
If you're chosen as a winner, you'll be able to select one of these prizes:
- £100 voucher for the charity shop or ethical store of your choice
- £100 staycation voucher with Kip Hideaways
- 1 year subscription to Oddbox vegetables
- 1 year membership to the National Trust
- 1 year subscription to 'She Grows Veg' heirloom veg & flower seeds
- The first 50 students to sign up will also be sent a tree from the The Woodland Trust. If the student has no room to plant a tree or does not want one, they can donate their tree to a planting scheme.
Competition terms and conditions
Need inspiration?
Come to one of our online events where we’ll be talking about the challenge with focus on specific topics: