RHS School Gardening Champion of the Year 2017
Supported by Gabriel Ash
This competition is currently closed. Click here for 2017's results.
About the competition:
Win a beautiful Gabriel Ash coldframe and £500 for your school!
Each year we look for an adult at your school (teacher, gardening club leader, volunteer etc.) who is an inspiration to the pupils they teach and has shown a passion for encouraging gardening in their school, as well as linking gardening to the curriculum.
This year we are delighted to be supported by Gabriel Ash who have donated four beautiful cedar Upright Coldframes worth £699 each, which will be awarded to all finalists and winners of this category!
How to enter:
Nominees must be an adult (over 18) working or volunteering at a school registered to the RHS Campaign for School Gardening. Not registered? Sign up free now.
An adult (over 18) can nominate their colleague by completing and returning an entry form. You need only nominate your adult once. If we receive multiple nominations we will only consider the first we receive.
To enter, click the 'nominate now' button below to download an entry form and tell us why you think your champion should win. We're looking for passionate and dedicated individuals and those who have made a real difference to their school and community through gardening.
The RHS will select four finalists from the entry forms and send a digital camera to make a short film demonstrating why they are an exemplary leader and how they encourage gardening in their school.
The overall winner, selected by a panel of celebrity gardening judges and judges from the RHS, will be crowned RHS School Gardening Champion of the Year 2017.
This competition is currently closed. Click here for 2017's results.
Prizes:
All entries will receive a printed certificate and a £5 gardening voucher.
The four finalists will receive a digital camera to make their short film which can be kept afterwards.
Following the judging, each finalist will receive a Gabriel Ash Upright Coldframe (pictured below) worth £699 and £250 in National Garden Gift Vouchers for their school. The finalists will also win a free place on a Campaign for School Gardening training course and be awarded an engraved hand trowel trophy and framed certificate.
The winner (selected from the four finalists) will be awarded all of the above, as well as a visit from a VIP to their school and two adult and up to four child tickets for either Hampton Court Palace Flower Show 2018 or RHS Tatton Park Flower Show 2018. The winner’s school will also receive £100 worth of seeds and an extra £250 in National Garden Gift Vouchers, a total of £500.
All winners and finalists will also be invited, along with two extra guests, to RHS Garden Wisley for a prize-giving ceremony in July 2017.
This Upright Coldframe has been donated by Gabriel Ash and will be awarded to all finalists and the winner of RHS School Gardening Champion of the Year 2017:
