# New Koreo Prize asks young people to tackle issues through storytelling

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2017/02/27/new-koreo-prize-asks-young-people-tackle-issues-storytelling/
- Published: 2017-02-27T10:17:22+00:00
- Author: Melanie May

**A national storytelling competition has launched that offers young people the 
chance to win cash, as well as educational and work opportunities for creating stories
that bring to life social issues.**

The [Koreo Prize](http://www.koreo.co/prize/) asks young people under the age of
27 to choose one of six social issues aligned with the UN’s Global Goals: gender
equality, social mobility, food security, community resilience, wellbeing and social
housing, and bring that issue to life through a story or series of stories in any
media before the deadline of 4^(th) April.  The prize includes £5,000 cash, paid
work placements, free learning opportunities, tickets to global conferences, and
mentoring opportunities.

Participants are asked to seek out different and conflicting points of view, and
to understand that there are no right answers to complex issues. At the end of the
competition Koreo will create a digital archive of the submissions to be shared 
nationally.

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Submissions will be judged by a panel of experts from across the public, private
and non-profit sector, including Julie Bentley, CEO of [Girlguiding UK](https://www.girlguiding.org.uk/),
John Vincent, founder of Leon, and Indy Johar, co-founder of Architecture00 and 
Dark Matter Labs.

Social change consultancy [Koreo](http://www.koreo.co/) rebranded from Vanilla Ventures
in December last year, and is headed by CEO and founder Rachel Whales.

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