The Garden Media Guild Awards 2010

The Garden Media Guild Awards celebrate the best in garden writing - including books, newspapers and magazines - photography, broadcasting - TV and radio - and new media - including gardening websites and gardening blogs. They are the garden media 'Oscars'.

 

New Talent Award, Young Gardener Award, Environmental Award & Plants and Well Being Award

 

New Garden Media Talent of the Year

The new garden media person who has demonstrated the best talent and potential in his or her field of communication(s). Judged from material published or broadcast plus supporting material.

The Award will be made to people who have made their first steps in the world of garden media, print, broadcast, photography &/or online in the qualifying year.

The Young Gardener Initiative Award

The initiative and media coverage that best develops and nurtures young horticultural talent.

Judged from material published or broadcast plus supporting material. The Award will be made to the writer, photographer or broadcaster who has identified and chronicled a project for the national or local community or education project that best develops and nurtures young horticultural talent. The leader of the project will also receive the Award.

Environmental Award

This cross-media category will be judged on both the environmental benefits of the subject matter and the degree of excellence with which it is communicated.

Demonstrating outstanding environmental credentials and best practice within UK horticulture, this category is open to a wide range of projects. Suitable topics could, among others, include energy efficiency, waste minimisation, innovative uses of recycled material, environmental conservation, water conservation and sustainable developments within the industry.

The benefits of the project, such as increase in biodiversity, locking up carbon or impact on the threat of climate change should be made clear.

Plants and Well Being Award NEW

This new category will demonstrate the ability of gardening to improve quality of life where it is most needed.

A cross-media award, it celebrates outstanding communication of the myriad benefits that plants and gardening can bring to both individual wellbeing and to communities.

There are many examples of gardening being employed as a tool for healing and improving people’s lives: In prisons or hostel gardens; as a route to developing skills and finding work; brightening last days in hospices and improving life ahead through horticultural therapy.

There are a thousand community projects nationwide that benefit from the social cohesion that gardening brings. They provide opportunities for socialising, for exercising and the chance to improve nutrition through grow your own.

The Plants and Well Being Award celebrates the best of these. The projects may not be beautiful; the projects may also not be glamorous but this is the gardening that makes a real difference and the award will go to the media professional who best communicates this.

This category is open to any published media professional in any format. The work must communicate the value of plants on a social basis, irrespective of aesthetics. The benefit of gardening to the activity, garden, project or people involved must be clear and identifiable.

It can cover some or all of: specific plants, green space, community projects or social projects with a gardening or environmental angle.

 

View & download the New Garden Media Talent Award entry form »

View & download the Young Gardener Initiative Award entry form »

View & download the Environmental Award entry form »

View & download the Plants and Well Being Award entry form »

View & download the general rules »

View & download the Awards payment form »