Community Garden Application Form

Blue Diamond Garden Centres - Community Garden Competition

Blue Diamond Garden Centres have an exciting new initiative for 2024.

We want to help bring the great outdoors to the heart of communities across the UK. We proudly offer this opportunity to support local groups develop a community garden and invite them to pitch their ideas to us.

We share the same beliefs as Octavia Hill, the inspiration behind our multi-award winning 2024 RHS Chelsea Show Garden that, ‘the sight of sky and of things growing, seem human needs, common to all’. With this as our main focus, we aim to inspire others to create innovative outdoor spaces that connect people with the beauty and complexity of the natural world.

To be considered, your community garden project will need to:

• Promote mental and physical health and wellbeing through its design.
• Focus on education, sustainability, wildlife/nature-friendly gardening methods.
• Bring wider communities together.

Once all applicants have been thoroughly explored and considered, we will award 5 winners with financial support, materials and expert advice to make their dreams become a reality.

Applications MUST also comply with the following criteria.

Applications are open to community gardening groups/projects/not-for-profit organisations.

• Applications must include a detailed plan of goals that are hoped to be achieve, if their application is successful, during the period 12^th July 2024 to 12^th July 2025, (the Award Period).
• Applicants must agree to Blue Diamond Garden Centres following the progress of the 5 successful applicants during the Award Period and agree to them publishing this progress across all their social media channels and their website.
• The community garden project is preferably a new project but can be an existing community project in need of refurbishment.
• Applicants must have permission to be on the land being used by the project.
• Projects must demonstrate a clear benefit to the wider community (or a section of the community), who must be able to access the initiative.
• Applicants must demonstrate that the project will be well maintained beyond the end of the Award Period so far as is reasonably practicable, for a further 12 months.
• Applications must be signed by two signatories representing the project and confirm that they are representative of a group of people.

If you would like your project to be considered for an award, please complete the application form below by the deadline of midnight on the 30^th of June 2024. 

Please read our terms and conditions before completing the below application.