Our long list of entrants in the spectacular Better World Video Awards
We asked you to send us videos about making the world a better place – short films that inspire, tell stories that matter, and celebrate the people making a difference.
We were amazed by the quality, diversity and enthusiasm the films exhibited. It has been a great few weeks going through the wonderful stories they tell. Have a browse, watch as many as you can. It is a treat and will restore your optimism.
A big thanks to all the people, groups and organisations that submitted. You do amazing work, and you are making the world a better place. And we would also like to thank our sponsors, MPB, the largest global platform for buying, selling and trading used photo and video kit and leading eco-resort Wakatobi.
Winners of the Better World Video Awards
The stories told by the two winning films show how a few individuals can help to make the world a better place
Better World: Withington Walls Street Art
A community street art project is giving life and colour to the walls of Withington, Manchester, making it feel like home for residents
Better World: Volunteering with Refyoume
A project in Calais and Dunkirk links volunteers with refugees in need of help
Better World: Unconditional Love
New York artist David Paul Kay creates a work to celebrate the values of the UK charity Arms Around the Child
Better World: Turning Discarded Fishing Nets Into Art
A collaborative project reducing plastic waste by turning discarded fishing nets into artisanal creations
Better World: The Story of Common Unity
The power of community in tackling societal issues is celebrated in this film about Common Unity
Better World: The Samara Story
Restoring South Africa’s third-largest protected area and reintroducing cheetah, black rhino, elephants and lions to the Great Karoo Samara Karoo…
Better World: The Nature Restorers
The Apricot Centre’s Regenerative Agriculture School is growing the next generation of agricultural farmers
Better World: The Lungs of the Sea
Protecting the vital seagrass meadows off southern Turkey. The work of the Fauna & Flora and the Mediterranean Conservation Society
Better World: The Berlin-Odessa Express
Volunteers drive from Germany to deliver desperately needed medical supplies to war-torn Ukraine
Better World: The Alladale Wilderness Reserve
A short film about how the Alladale Nature Reserve is helping transform the Scottish Highlands
Better World: Sperm Whales
Wildlife filmmaker Graeme Purdy gets close to a curious sperm whale in Dominica
Better World: Seven years without a bin
A zero-waste couple share their tips and encouragement
Better World: Secure Forests
A Better World video about using sensors to protect the rainforest from illegal loggers
Better World: Second Chance
Two moving films about the Akwaaba Volunteers helping children in Ghana faced with extreme poverty
Better World: Scarlet Macaws of Belize
The battle to stop the poachers putting scarlet macaws in Belize at risk of extinction
Better World: Saving the River Evenlode
Pollution and modifications have led to a devasting decline to the River Evenlode in Oxfordshire threatening wildlife
Better World: Saving Scotland’s Oldest Pines
A Highlands project seeks to protect some of Scotland’s oldest pines
Better World: Running A Foodbank in Belfast
The story of Paul Doherty who set up a foodbank in his garage in Belfast
Better World: Rhino Poaching
A orphanage that has rescued more than 1,000 rhinos from poachers and the extreme methods they take to save the endangered animals
Better World: Rewilding Waterhall
Rewilding Waterhall: a rare chalk grassland in the South Downs
Better World: Restoring Bolton Fell
An inspiring short film about a nearly devasted peat bog in Cumbria has been brought back to life by the local community
Better World: Regenerating forest with goats!
This film celebrates a new way to mitigate forest fires, using goats
Better World: Raise Our Voices, Lower Prices
Bringing generations together to enact real change
Better World: RahVeshi Programme
Preserving the Maldives with local research and solutions
Better World: Preserving a green oasis in the heart of London
The inspiring story of a community that came together to safeguard Meath Gardens in Tower Hamlets
Better World: Plastic Man
Surfing environmentalists The Goat Surf Club head to Senegal to meet a unique campaigner and to catch some waves
Better World: Mind Food
A charity tackles social isolation with the power of nature
Better world: Mantas of Makunudhoo
A Manta Trust expedition in the Maldives, the home of the largest known population of reef manta rays in the world
Better World: Making a Tuna Fishery Sustainable
A Marine Stewardship Council video on how one Spanish business made controversial FAD fishing for tuna sustainable
Better World: Isolation to Inclusion
Tackling loneliness and isolation by the waterways
Better World: How Halima was saved by Action Against Hunger in Somalia
Malnourished Halima was saved in just six weeks by Action Against Hunger. A Better World Video award entry
Better World: Hoot, Hiss, Howl
A celebration of the sounds of the wilderness from Wild.org. How a silent world would be a joyless world
Better World: Fountain of Life
A small charity help families to become self-sufficient with their own water supply
Better World: Factory Farming and Climate Disasters in the Global South
A plea to end factory farming and to feed the world in a sustainable way from World Animal Protection
Better World: Elephant Orphanage
The first elephant orphanage which has raised more than 300 young elephants and returned them to the wild
Better World: Educating Girls in India
A project to help girls in India remain in school focuses on football
Better World: Ebru’s Christmas Miracle
One family’s efforts to bring a Christmas treat to children in need
Better World: Curlew River
Farmers and locals fight to save a threatened population of curlews in Oxfordshire
Better World: Concerts Don’t Cost The Earth
Creating intimate spaces to share music and thoughts on the climate crisis
Better World: Clean the World
A programme taking waste from landfills and turning it into soap for those in need
Better World: Child soldiers rescued
Youngsters dragged into the civil war in Burkina Faso are regaining their childhood in a secret care centre
Better World: Changemaker Tirza Meinema
How one woman’s passion for tidying up her local community has had a transformative impact
Better World: Carbon Credits in Tanzania
A carbon offsets scheme is helping a hunter-gather tribe and a pastoralist tribe in Tanzania protect their land
Better World: Building a Diverse Community
Film about community worker Shoba Resalayyan’s work with Plan for Peace helping new UK citizens in Slough
Better World: Brazilian Amazon
A project bringing access to technology and sustainable technology to remote communities in the Amazon In Seringal Porongaba, a remote…
Better World: Bison in Kent
The Wilder Blean project to introduce free-roaming bison to re-wild a Kent woodland
Better World: Action Aid
Highlighting the broad scope of work done by Action Aid in 2023
Better World: A Sustainable Fishery in Weymouth
A Dorset business supporting the sustainable fishing fleet in Weymouth
Better World: A community’s compost story
A dedicated composter, taking community composting to the next level
Better World: The Brick Kiln Donkeys of Egypt
Animal activist and actor Peter Egan joins Safe Haven 4 Donkeys on a visit to the brick kilns of Egypt…
