AN ANDOVER-based community project has been nominated for a national award for the second successive year.

Andover Trees United has been shortlisted in this year’s Observer Ethical Awards, which will take place at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London next month.

The group has been nominated in the Ecover Young Green Champions category and will attend the awards, jokingly referred to as the ‘Green Oscars’, for the second year running after they finished as runners-up in 2014.

The 10-year project, which involves children from 25 local schools planting 10,000 trees to create a woodland near Enham Alamien, will compete for the award against a Dorset school’s eco-fuel project and fellow Hampshire contestants, Wicor Primary School.

The aim of the project is to create a woodland that will bring environmental benefits as well as create a ‘generational legacy’ which will allow children who planted the trees to bring their children in the future.

Despite the disappointment of finishing runners up last year, the group were encouraged to apply for the awards again by leading primatologist Doctor Jane Goodall, who has contact with organisers through her ties with Portway Junior School.

The group took the advice and submitted another application – finding out they had been shortlisted for the award at the end of last month.

Wendy Davis, who helped set up the project in 2012, was delighted to be shortlisted again and hoped that 2015 would be their year.

She said: “It is a huge honour to be shortlisted even once but to make the short list a second time is a true accolade and testament to the tireless work of the volunteers who have made this possible.”

Andover Trees United is organising a group to attend the award ceremony, which will take place on Thursday, July 2. Volunteer Oonagh Pope will represent the group on the night along with two children involved in the project and their parents.

For information on the awards visit the website: theguardian.com/observerethical-awards.