Modeshift STARS National School Travel League
National accreditation scheme that publishes league tables ranking local authorities by percentage of schools holding a Modeshift STARS travel plan (Bronze through Platinum). Bucks and South Gloucestershire repeatedly top the large-authority table.
Explicit inter-local-authority league table - councils brag publicly about being #1 in their size category; regional sub-leagues create county-vs-county and borough-vs-borough comparisons.
Within each council, school travel officers coach individual schools to accreditation; schools share resources, parent ambassadors and Park-and-Stride sites with neighbouring schools to lift the whole borough's percentage.
Rare example of a government-backed competitive league among LOCAL AUTHORITIES (geographic units), not just schools - directly the geographic-area competition mechanic BelongHub catalogs.
Others in the same family
Sustrans Big Walk and Wheel (formerly Big Pedal)
UK's largest inter-school active-travel challenge run by Walk Wheel Cycle Trust (Sustrans). For two weeks, schools log every walked, wheeled, scooted or cycled journey via a school portal; a school's best five days determine final position on a national leaderboard, with badges and certificates.
Energy Sparks (UK schools energy league)
Open-data platform that ingests half-hourly electricity and gas meter readings for ~620+ schools and turns energy investigations and saving actions into points. Public national, regional (London, North-West England, etc.), Multi-Academy-Trust, and Local Authority scoreboards rank schools in real time across the academic year. Cash prizes for top schools are spent on a sustainability project the school chooses.
GoodGym - Community Missions & Group Runs
Runners meet weekly at an Area base, run to a community project (sheltered housing garden, foodbank, park), do manual work for an hour, then run back. Area Activators are paid local coordinators; missions are solo runs to do a task for an older neighbour ('coach run').
Get Set / Path to Paris + Get Set for Milan (Team GB & ParalympicsGB)
Free team-based virtual challenge where school/community teams log physical-activity minutes, which convert to kilometres powering their team along an Olympic-themed virtual world map. Teams collect prizes en route.
Concours des Ecoles Fleuries (DDEN + OCCE)
Ministry-backed contest valorizing student-led gardening and floral projects at school and around the school. Two-stage: department-level juries select winners who progress to the national prize, with special prizes for cooperative pedagogy, biodiversity, citizenship.
Schools Recycle Right Challenge (Planet Ark) + Battle of the Schools
Planet Ark's National Recycling Week schools programme provides activity guides and event ideas; in regions like Hervey Bay (QLD) Express Recycling runs a Battle of the Schools where schools compete by weight collected with $500 cash prizes.