Entries are open for an award celebrating the best young journalist from an ethnic minority background in the United Kingdom.

Nominations are now being welcomed for the GG2 Leadership Awards’ Young Journalist of the Year 2016.

The award is open to people aged under 30 and from any ethnic minority who have done outstanding work in print, broadcast or online journalism.

The winner receives a £500 bursary and a work experience opportunity at the Daily Mail, which sponsors the award.

The awards are run by GG2, a bilingual weekly news magazine published in Gujarati and English.

Entries must be completed by 6pm on Friday 26 August. More information can be found here.