WOW BADGE DESIGN COMPETITION 2026
THE WOW BADGE DESIGN COMPETITION IS NOW CLOSED!
Thank you for taking part in this year’s WOW Badge Design Competition! We’re already looking through the fabulous Walk the Senses entries that show what pupils see, hear, smell, taste or feel as they walk and wheel to school.
Watch this space to find out the 11 winning entries that will be turned into next year's WOW badges to celebrate pupils who walk, wheel, scoot, cycle or Park and Stride to school.
SEND inclusion for whole school participation
We do our best to make WOW as inclusive as possible and we want all children to be able to participate in the badge design competition. However, we do understand that not all pupils might feel able to draw their entry or use our template form to do so. For this reason, when necessary, we are giving pupils the option to enter using alternative formats. We encourage any format and are open to recommendations and feedback, but some suggestions are included below.
We’re still asking each school to only send their top three entries. Alternative format entries are not considered additional entries. Some alternative entry format suggestions include photography, a photo of a model entry (using natural objects, Lego or other modelling equipment), a computer drawing/design, audio description or a video description entry.
When supporting pupils to enter using the alternative formats, the following information will need to be included as part of the entry: pupil name, age, their answer to ‘What did you choose to enter and why?’, school email, school name and address and local authority. Answers to the above, along with any additional information deemed necessary, can be included in writing or as an audio clip by the pupil or by a staff member working with them on the task.
COMMITTED TO REDUCE WASTE
Protecting the environment is incredibly important to us at Living Streets, it’s part of the reason we run WOW.
Since 2019, we’ve recycled and reused over 1.1 million badges by producing WOW trophies and rulers with them, as well as reusing them as rewards across our other Walk to School initiatives.
LEARN ABOUT THIS YEAR'S WOW BADGES!
The current WOW badge theme is Walk With Joy, which celebrates all the things that spark creativity and happiness.