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.
Pick your favourite and vote before Monday, February 26. Enjoy!.
Better World: Withington Walls Street Art
Jan 30, 2024
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
Feb 6, 2024
A project in Calais and Dunkirk links volunteers with refugees in need of help
Better World: Unconditional Love
Jan 29, 2024
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
Feb 1, 2024
A collaborative project reducing plastic waste by turning discarded fishing nets into artisanal creations
Better World: The Story of Common Unity
Feb 5, 2024
The power of community in tackling societal issues is celebrated in this film about Common Unity
Better World: The Samara Story
Feb 3, 2024
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
Feb 2, 2024
The Apricot Centre’s Regenerative Agriculture School is growing the next generation of agricultural farmers
Better world: the mantas of Makunudhoo
Jan 24, 2024
A Manta Trust expedition in the Maldives, the home of the largest known population of reef manta rays in the world
Better World: The Lungs of the Sea
Feb 2, 2024
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
Feb 3, 2024
Volunteers drive from Germany to deliver desperately needed medical supplies to war-torn Ukraine
Better World: The Alladale Wilderness Reserve
Feb 2, 2024
A short film about how the Alladale Nature Reserve is helping transform the Scottish Highlands
Better World: Sperm Whales
Jan 31, 2024
Wildlife filmmaker Graeme Purdy gets close to a curious sperm whale in Dominica
Better World: Seven years without a bin
Feb 5, 2024
A zero-waste couple share their tips and encouragement
Better World: Second Chance
Feb 4, 2024
Two moving films about the Akwaaba Volunteers helping children in Ghana faced with extreme poverty
Better World: Scarlet Macaws of Belize
Feb 2, 2024
The battle to stop the poachers putting scarlet macaws in Belize at risk of extinction
Better World: Saving The River Evenlode
Feb 2, 2024
Pollution and modifications have led to a devasting decline to the River Evenlode in Oxfordshire threatening wildlife
Better World: Saving Scotland’s Oldest Pines
Feb 6, 2024
A Highlands project seeks to protect some of Scotland’s oldest pines
Better World: Running A Foodbank in Belfast
Feb 3, 2024
The story of Paul Doherty who set up a foodbank in his garage in Belfast
Better World: Rhino Poaching
Feb 3, 2024
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
Feb 6, 2024
Rewilding Waterhall: a rare chalk grassland in the South Downs
Better World: Regenerating forest with goats!
Feb 5, 2024
This film celebrates a new way to mitigate forest fires, using goats
Better World: Raise Our Voices, Lower Prices
Feb 6, 2024
Bringing generations together to enact real change
Better World: RahVeshi Programme
Feb 6, 2024
Preserving the Maldives with local research and solutions
Better World: Preserving a green oasis in the heart of London
Jan 17, 2024
The inspiring story of wow a community came together to safeguard Meath Gardens in Tower Hamlets
Better World: Plastic Man
Jan 30, 2024
Surfing environmentalists The Goat Surf Club head to Senegal to met a unique campaigner and to catch some waves
Better World: Making a Tuna Fishery Sustainable
Jan 30, 2024
A Marine Stewardship Council video on how one Spanish business made controversial FAD fishing for tuna sustainable
Better World: How Hamila was saved by Action Against Hunger in Somalia
Jan 18, 2024
Malnourished Hamila was saved in just six weeks by Action Against Hunger. A Better World Video award entry
Better World: Hoot, Hiss, Howl
Jan 30, 2024
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
Jan 29, 2024
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
Feb 2, 2024
A plea to end factory farming and to feed the world in a sustainable way from World Animal Protection
Better World: Elephant Orphange
Jan 31, 2024
The first elephant orphanage which has raised more than 300 young elephants and returned them to the wild
Better World: Educating Girls in India
Feb 6, 2024
A project to help girls in India remain in school focuses on football
Better World: Ebru’s Christmas Miracle
Feb 4, 2024
One family’s efforts to bring a Christmas treat to children in need
Better World: Curlew River
Feb 3, 2024
Farmers and locals fight to save a threatened population of curlews in Oxfordshire
Better World: Concerts Don’t Cost The Earth
Feb 6, 2024
Creating intimate spaces to share music and thoughts on the climate crisis
Better World: Clean the World
Feb 4, 2024
A programme taking waste from landfills and turning it into soap for those in need
Better World: Child soldiers rescued
Jan 19, 2024
Youngsters dragged into the civil war in Burkina Faso are regaining their childhood in a secret care centre
Better World: Changemaker Tirza Meinema
Feb 4, 2024
How one woman’s passion for tidying up her local community has had a transformative impact
Better World: Carbon Credits in Tanzania
Jan 30, 2024
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
Jan 31, 2024
Film about community worker Shoba Resalayyan’s work with Plan for Peace helping new UK citizens in Slough
Better World: Bison in Kent
Feb 4, 2024
The Wilder Blean project to introduce free-roaming bison to re-wild a Kent woodland
Better World: Action Aid
Feb 6, 2024
Highlighting the broad scope of work done by Action Aid in 2023
Better World: A Sustainable Fishery in Weymouth
Jan 31, 2024
A Dorset business supporting the sustainable fishing fleet in Weymouth
Better World: A community’s compost story
Feb 5, 2024
A dedicated composter, taking community composting to the next level
Better World: The Brick Kiln Donkeys of Egypt
Feb 4, 2024
Animal activist and actor Peter Egan joins Safe Haven 4 Donkeys on a visit to the brick kilns of Egypt…