Lights Camera Score 2025 projects across England crowned winners of UNESCO ASPnet schools’ network initiative, ‘Seeds of Hope’.
Three Stones Media congratulates its music education partner Little People Big Noise team as school projects across Calderdale, Essex and Tower Hamlets win a ground-breaking international competition supported by UNESCO.
The Seeds of Hope competition brings art, culture and peace-making into young lives to promote the values of sustainability and community.
The winners of the Global 2025 Seeds of Hope for a Better Future competition attended an on online ceremony on 30th September alongside schools from France, the UK, Gambia, Haiti, and Kenya.
The competition was organised under the umbrella of the UNESCO UK Associated Schools Programme Network (ASPnet) Arts & Culture for Peace Initiative. ASPnet connects more than 12,000 educational institutions in around180 countries and brings together schools of all ages and at all levels. A distinguished jury of 12 artists, writers and creators including renowned sculptor Antony Gormley; the artist, potter and author Edmund de Waal; leading journalist and broadcast executive Dame Liz Forgan; RSC actor Hugh Quarshie, and Rathna Ramanathan, the Pro Vice Chancellor of Central St Martins, University of the Arts London, selected the winning entries.
The Lights Camera Score entry featured an ensemble of 21 schools from three areas in the UK. The Judges considered these projects to be an inspiring combination of animation, music and writing, with engaging performances by the children involved. It was, they said,
an exemplary cross-disciplinary project with wide-reaching outcomes involving many schools, professional musicians and animators, with a clear focus on sustainability and the serious nature of the Seeds of Hope themes.
The winning primary schools were from Calderdale in West Yorkshire: Ash Green, Cliffe Hill, Calder, Cross Lane, Beech Hill, Holy Trinity and Wainstalls; from Essex: Canvey Junior, Castledon, Castle View, James Hornsby, Laindon Park Primary, Lincewood Primary, Northwick Primary and The King John School; and from the Tower Hamlets area: Arnhem Wharf, Lansbury Lawrence, Lawdale, Olga, Osmani, and St Luke’s.
Congratulations to all the pupils, teachers, tutors, musicians, writers, animators and composers who helped bring these important projects to life.
In addition, we would like to convey our appreciation to Calderdale Music, Calderdale Council, Essex Music Service, and THAMES (Tower Hamlets).
Three Stones Media works with Little People Big Noise to deliver animation for the Lights Camera Projects across England. Expanding from entertainment content into educational activities and educational media is an important aspect of our ongoing work at Three Stones.
You can learn and read more about the ‘Seeds of hope for a better future’ competition here. For further information about UNESCO (ASPnet) click here.
You can check out the award-winning films below and also on the LCS YouTube channel.