Award criteria

To achieve their John Muir Award Wild Places Guardian certificate, every participant must meet these criteria

1. Spend 25 hours or more completing their John Muir Award – with at least 25 per cent of the time spent on Conserve activity. As a guideline, we look for at least 80% of Award time to be spent outdoors in your chosen wild place(s).
2. Have an active involvement in decision making and planning of their Award - this helps to build individuals’ belief that they can make a difference beyond the Award. 
3. Develop awareness of an inspirational person. This should be an environmentalist, past or present, or someone making a difference to wild places locally. You can find more information and ideas here.
4. Complete the Four Challenges: Discover, Explore, Conserve, Share. These Four Challenges lie at the heart of the John Muir Award. Click on the links below to find additional information and ideas about each of them.