How to apply

Toybox can only accept entries from children with the full support of a school, as a teacher must accompany the students on the trip. The students will be asked to produce a joint presentation in any medium (powerpoint, film, audio etc) which should show why they will make great campaigners.

The closing date for entries is 10th November 2010.

(Opens application form in PDF)
Please view our entry guidelines

For further information please contact David Westwood on david.westwood@toybox.org or ring Toybox on 0845 4660010.

The trip to Bolivia is generously co-funded by Domain-London – a fully integrated communications agency specialising in the not for profit sector. Domain-London’s CEO Andrew Saunders commented “It’s great to have the opportunity to be involved in such an important project building bridges between children here and in Latin America.”

Your chance to visit Latin America with Toybox!

If you are a year ten secondary school student or secondary teacher, you could be heading out to visit Toybox supported projects in Bolivia in February 2011.

Toybox and the Global Campaign for Education have just launched a new competition to find two Young Global Education Ambassadors for 2011.

14 and 15 year–olds in the UK (year 10 in 2010-11) are invited to apply through their school for the Steve Sinnott Award. This competition will give two committed individuals, and their teacher, the amazing opportunity to travel out to Bolivia and investigate the barriers to education that street children face there.

The competition aims to raise awareness of the need to provide every child with a full primary education by the year 2015. This is one of the eight Millennium Development Goals that world leaders agreed back in the year 2000. Since that time, some progress has been made, but there are still 72 million children around the world who are missing out on an education.

The winners will meet street-living and street-working children and hear from them about the challenges to a full education that they are facing. Children from Toybox-supported projects will give the children a unique insight into the lives of young people the same age. The students will also meet with community leaders and politicians, to hear about progress on education for all in Bolivia.

On their return to the UK the young campaigners will help ‘spread the word’ by speaking at union conferences and to the media. They will also feature in a short film, which will form the centerpiece for next year’s Send My Friend to School Campaign, organized by the Global Campaign for Education, to inspire schools across the country to help get free, quality primary education worldwide by 2015. This year 1 million pupils in over 9,000 schools are taking part in the campaign.