Prizes

Besides the fame and the glory for the students and school, there are also prizes to be won! Winners and runners-up of both competitions will travel to Great Britain!
Besides that we have personal prizes in store for all finalists and the winning schools will receive the highly coveted Rose Bowl or BBC Challange Cup.

The winner and runner-up in the National Final of the BBC-GNE Public Speaking Awards will be awarded a trip to London, where they will compete in the English-Speaking Union (ESU) International Public Speaking Competition 2008 as representatives of the Netherlands from 6-10 May 2008 (NOTE: returning in the Whitsun weekend!). ATTENTION: These dates have changed and are different from those originally published.

The winner and the runner-up of the BBC-GNE Young Writers Awards will be offered the opportunity to follow a one week residential writing course at one of the Arvon Foundation centres in the UK. Type of course and date to be fixed later.

bmi will fly winners and runners-up to London.

Buro Britain is offering two 2-days Break Away arrangements for two persons each to London or Cambridge to the winners of the Audience Prize awarded at the National Final on 12 April 2008.

Incidentally, not only do the winning students and schools receive a prize! The teachers of the winners and runners-up will also receive an attractive prize.