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.

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 2009 as representatives of the Netherlands from 18 - 22 May 2009 (Note: these dates 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.

The winning schools will receive the highly coveted Rose Bowl or BBC Challenge Cup.

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.