Category: Cultivation Street

The Cultivation Street campaign celebrates and supports schools and community gardens, and what makes them so fantastic. Community gardens come in a myriad of shapes, sizes and styles. They all have a different heart and a unique mission.

Cultivation Street Ambassador Scheme: New for 2016!
Are you a community or school gardening project that wants professional advice and support?

This year the Cultivation Street campaign is expanding to build a national network of gardening mentors to support community projects.

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The scheme will unite garden centres and communities to work together on neighbourhood and school gardening projects. Over a 150 garden centres across the country have already have already pledged their support to the scheme.

Click to find your Nearest Garden Centre Ambassador Centre:

https://new.daviddomoney.com/cultivation-street/garden-centre-postcode-map/

Each participating garden centre has nominated a member of staff to become a Community Ambassador for all Cultivation Street entrants. The Ambassador will be the point of contact between the garden centre and communities, allowing communities to learn green fingered skills from garden centres and create a mutually beneficial relationship.

David Domoney said, “Many garden centres want to offer more help and support to local gardening projects, and members of those projects want to ask garden centres for help and advice. It’s a win, win situation.”

The new Garden Centre Ambassador Scheme only recently launched this year encouraging garden centres to help and support fantastic community projects across Britain. Click to find a garden centre near you.

Click to read how Aylett’s Nurseries helped Bedford Road become winners of Cultivation Street 2015
1. The scheme is a clear and easy way for garden centres, communities, and school project to start building links.
2. Community Ambassadors are on hand to be a dedicated point of contact for all community project queries. The Ambassador will provide help and advice for community project members. This may include design and planting advice, tips on creating wildlife and allotment areas and seasonal help on what to plant when.
3. The communities can build closer ties with garden centres, providing the Community Ambassador with updates, photos and progress as the project becomes a joint venture.
Join our Community Gardening Campaign!

If you are a Garden Centre click the link to register:

https://new.daviddomoney.com/cultivation-street/gcambassador/

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May 13, 2016
Cultivation Street: New Categories for 2016

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We are looking for the best community gardening projects and school gardens around the UK – and we want to hear from you!

We have five specialist categories, designed to reward passionate people taking part in community, neighbourhood and school gardening projects.

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Community Garden Projects

This award will go to fantastic and inspiring community gardening projects and people who are making their local area a nicer place to live.

Whatever you are doing to improve your local area with gardening and growing, we want to hear about it!

Community Gardens enter via the five Regional Categories. The regions for 2016 are: Scotland; Northern England; Wales, NI and Isle of Man; Midlands and East Anglia; Southern England and Channel Islands.

School Garden Projects

This award will go to the school that has best involved children to create an inspirational school garden. The garden can be edible or ornamental and new or well-established.

The school should also be able demonstrate that it is teaching children how to garden and interact with nature.

Front Gardens

This award will go to the best street of front gardens.

We are looking for a street full pride as people forge stunning front gardens together. Encourage your neighbours to take part and win vouchers to make your street a nicer place to live!

Small Spaces

This award goes to the best small garden project. We are looking for a small area that has been transformed into an inspiring mini garden.

We are looking for clever use of space and intriguing design. If you have a small green area, let us know!

Garden Centre Ambassador of the Year

This award will go to the Garden Centre Ambassador who has been the most engaged with our community gardening project.

We want to see passionate Ambassadors who have built relationships with community projects, and those who have immersed themselves in the campaign by assisting with entries and encouraging communities to share their stories and photos.

To read more about our brand new 2016 categories follow the link:

https://new.daviddomoney.com/cultivation-street/campaign-categories/

Tell Us About Your Cultivation Street Project

Not only do the Cultivation Street Team enjoy seeing new gardening projects and the progress of communities, David Domoney will be highlighting entrants’ progress throughout the competition in his The Sunday Mirror newspaper column.

Tell us more about your amazing gardening projects:

https://new.daviddomoney.com/cultivation-street/tell-us-your-story/

Get Growing with Cultivation Street!

Get your Starter Pack for your neighbourhood, schools or community at:

https://new.daviddomoney.com/cultivation-street/order-your-starter-pack/

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May 5, 2016
Cultivation Street community gardening campaign 2016 opens!

Cultivation Street, the UK’s most successful gardening campaign, is back for its fourth year in a row!

David Domoney, plus a team of expert judges, are looking for the most inspirational neighbourhoods across the UK.

Judges also want to hear about the effect this has on the wider community. A finer looking street creates a greater sense of respect for the area, stirring other people who see the gardens to get growing in their own homes.

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The competition is open to community gardens, as well as, front gardens and small spaces and school gardening projects.

Community Gardens enter via the five Regional Categories. The regions for 2016 are: Scotland; Northern England; Wales, NI and Isle of Man; Midlands and East Anglia; Southern England and Channel Islands.

Get your Starter Pack for your neighbourhood, schools or community!

Win your share of the £20,000 jackpot

With £20,000 worth of National Garden Gift Vouchers up for grabs, streets, schools and communities can work hard to make a greener looking Britain. Included in that is the amazing top prize of £10,000 for the winner of Cultivation Street 2016!

So, what are you waiting for? Get growing with Cultivation Street. Cultivate some enthusiasm and dig in with your neighbours to be in the running for a great prize!

Read more about the campaign

Read David’s story behind Cultivation Street

Discover the new categories

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April 11, 2016