Win prizes for your gardens and green spaces
The In Bloom gardening competition is back for 2025 and now open for applications! After lots of fantastic entries in last year's customer gardening competition, we’re looking to celebrate and award prizes for more vibrant and creative green spaces. Applications close on Thursday 31 July 2025 and the competition is open to all SNG customers, including people who entered last year.
This competition is a chance for you to show us your gardening skills and showcase the positive impact that gardening can have on people, wellbeing communities and the environment. There are four categories, and a £200, £100 and £50 Amazon voucher is up for grabs for the first, second and third place winners in each category! The judging panel deciding who the winners are will include a customer, our Group CEO Mark Washer, and members of our Community Foundation Leadership team.
After winning in the Sustainable Garden category last year, Berkshire-based SNG customer Michelle Plummer said: “I was grateful to win the competition, it was a lovely surprise and what a great idea from SNG. I am very proud of the garden. It has developed over many years, and I always have ideas to further enhance it. This award is such a nice way for it to be recognised, thank you.” This year’s In Bloom competition could be your chance to be awarded for your impressive gardening efforts, enter now for your chance to win up to £200 in vouchers!
Categories
Each customer can make one application each, and applications can be made for one of the four categories listed below. If you’re entering the competition as a group, you don’t need to be a formally constituted group, we just need one person from the group to lead on the application.
This award celebrates vibrant and colourful private green spaces managed by an individual / household. Judges will consider how well you have added beauty and variety to the garden, while showcasing some great gardening skills.
This award is for individuals or groups who have come together to create and maintain a community or shared garden / green space. Judges will consider how well you’ve made the space visually appealing and how the gardening work has benefitted the community, contributed to the improvement of a communal area, and reducing waste and litter.
This award is for individuals who have innovatively utilised smaller or indoor spaces to create vibrant green spaces. This category will celebrate blossoming plants in containers, hanging baskets, houseplants, or and things that are a little different which maximise space. Judges will consider how creatively you’ve made use of your space with greenery.
How to enter
- Complete our online application form
- When you’re completing your application form, you will be asked to email up to three pictures to support your application to Community.Investment@sng.org.uk and to include your name and address in the email so we can match it up with your application. Please make sure you have sent the photos to us before you submit your application form.
Applications close on 31 July at 11.59pm. All applicants will be notified of the outcome by the end of August.
Enter In Bloom 2025
Prizes
All winners will receive a personalised trophy and certificate, and the prizes are:
- First place: £200 voucher and free professional photoshoot in your green space*
- Second place: £100 voucher
- Third place: £50 voucher
There are even more prizes on offer too, as once winners are decided, we will be running a prize draw for all other applicants to celebrate their hard work in maintaining their green spaces. In this prize draw, there will be a £20 Amazon voucher up for grabs for 30 randomly selected customers!
So if you’re a green-fingered customer who loves gardening, why not enter today?
*All first place winners will be offered a free professional photoshoot in their garden or green space. You can find photos from the winners’ photoshoots last year on our SNG In Bloom 2024 web page. You will also get a copy of the photos, so you can let all your family and friends know about your award-winning gardening! The photoshoot visits will most likely take place between 23 to 29 August, but we can work around winners’ availability if you are not free then. For the photoshoot to go ahead, you will need to sign our photography consent form which gives us permission to use the photos from the photoshoot.