NO prizes for guessing which category Anneliese Emmans Dean, director of theBigBuzz, is entering in The Press Business Awards Anneliese, of Peel Close, Heslington, set up theBigBuzz four years ago to “inspire people of all ages and in all walks of life to think green”.

It promotes this through “creativity and learning through laughter, rhythm and rhyme”.

The result of her partnerships with organisations in York, her self-penned (mini) musical entitled Compost! has been performed by York Rotters based at York Environment Centre.

Since its first performance by schoolchildren, highlighting the need to reduce landfill rubbish, it has been taught to children in Cub and Scout groups with the help City of York Council funding, and at primary and secondary schools across the city as well as at festivals.

One spin-off of the event is a mini musical teaching pack, which has sold nationally and internationally, allowing people to stage the musical and pass on the green message.

Also in support of her Think Green Business Of The Year entry are her frequent commissions to perform poems on ecological themes for broadcast. Last October, she wrote and performed a poem about the wildlife of York for the BBC World Service’s One Planet programme to coincide with a UN biodiversity conference.

Her wildlife photographs are used in scientific literature and in natural history books, and she is a volunteer photographer for the Woodland Trust. (Look out for her contribution to January in next year’s Marks & Spencer calendar).

And last month she signed a publishing contract to create a book based on another of her award-winning eco shows, entitled Buzzing!