Free, real, and open to any student in the country. We check the dates against the organiser's own page rather than a listing, so if something here has moved, that page is the one to trust. Nothing on this page asks you for anything.
Free to enter, open to both sixth-form years, and the winning entries get published. One piece of work on a set theme, closing in early November — read last year’s winners before deciding what to make.
An hour, free, and a primary source rather than a summary of one. Shoreline management plans read like planning documents because that is what they are; the skill is finding the sentence that names a place and a date. Somebody decided about your bit of coast.
This page shows everyone the same two things, which is the whole difference between it and what we actually do. A broadcast about law is noise to a student taking psychology, film and computing; the useful version is the one thing a week that fits the subjects they are actually sitting.
And a page cannot ask them what they made of it. Two or three sentences, written a fortnight later while it is still fresh, is what turns an afternoon into something they can put in a personal statement eighteen months on — and it is the part nobody does on their own.