Entries are now closed for the RHS & BBC The One Show’s Growing Together Award 2025.

• We are looking for projects that clearly demonstrate the transformation that has taken place. We would love to know what the space was like before you started, what work was needed, what (if any) challenges you had to overcome, and who volunteered to help
• We want to hear about the people who have been making use of your transformed space, and how you’ve been getting new gardeners involved. We would love to know who they are, and how they got involved, how easy it was for them to participate, what activities they have been doing, and whether they joined in one-off activities or have become regular volunteers
• We want to understand what the newly transformed space means to your group and your local community. We would love to know what makes it special and why it is important to your group, and how it benefits the local community and the local environment

Entries are now closed for the RHS & BBC The One Show’s Growing Together Award 2025.

Before your community group enters, please see the information below to learn more about what is covered and if you are eligible:

• The lead community group applicant must be aged 18 years or older at the time of submitting your entry
• Entrants must be a community group of three or more people that is not profit-making (e.g. their activities are not for the financial benefit of any individuals or owners)
• Entrants must not be a school, education or childcare provider. (However, an educational space may be the transformed space, and schoolchildren or students may benefit from or participate in the community garden)
• Community garden groups that entered the Competition in 2024 may re-enter the Competition in 2025, however the transformation should relate to a different project or be in a different location.
• The entry must be in the UK. The competition is open to all eligible community groups in England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man
• To enter the competition, the community gardening group must have created a community garden in the UK that:
  1. transformed a previously under-used space
  2. is open to the public and available for use by the local community, either all or most of the time (e.g. the space may be locked at night, but it must be generally accessible)
  3. is not used for the purpose of generating a profit (however, selling products to generate funds to reinvest in the community garden or not-for-profit is acceptable)
  4. is not used for the purpose of promoting a religion or a belief (incorporating information about a religion or belief in the community garden is acceptable, so long as the local community are able to use it freely, regardless of their religion or belief)
  5. must have secured permission from the landowner and any other relevant permissions before work started
  6. enabled people who are not a main participant or leader of another gardening group to take up community gardening for the first time
  7. followed sustainable gardening practices (examples of which can be found on the RHS website)
  8. was transformed within 36 months before the competition opening date
  9. is intended to be in existence for a minimum of 12 months after the winner is announced

Entries are now closed for the RHS & BBC The One Show’s Pocket Garden Makeover Prize 2025.

• The overall winner will receive £1000 in National Garden Gift Vouchers, a plaque and certificate
• The most outstanding runners-up will each receive £100 in National Garden Gift Vouchers, a plaque and certificate
• Every entry will be recognised with a certificate
• The BBC’s The One Show will film some of the most outstanding entries

Entries are now closed for the RHS & BBC The One Show’s Growing Together Award 2025.

• The deadline to submit entries is 6pm on Friday 13 June 2025
• The results will be announced on the BBC’s The One Show

Entries are now closed for the RHS & BBC The One Show’s Growing Together Award 2025.

The Royal Horticultural Society with registered charity number 222879/SC038262 of 80 Vincent Square, London, SW1P 2PE (the RHS) is the promoter of the competition. This competition is being run by the RHS in conjunction with The One Show. The One Show is produced by BBC Studios for broadcast, use and exploitation by the BBC. The RHS and BBC Studios are responsible for handling the personal information you provide, in accordance with data protection law.

The personal data you supply as part of your competition entry submission will be used by the RHS and BBC Studios for the purpose of running the competition and featuring it on The One Show. This includes:

• contacting you if your Entry is selected as a finalist, to arrange a broadcast interview(s) and/or to film them for BBC social media videos;
• filming and taking photographs of the finalists and their community garden, and announcing the finalists, the winning entry, the runners up and their lead community group applicant’s name, which will be broadcast on the BBC The One Show, iPlayer, BBC and RHS social media and any other media, in connection with any publicity relating to the Competition as set out in the competition terms and conditions; and
• publishing the finalist’s and the lead community applicant’s name and images of their community garden on the BBC and RHS websites and associated social media channels.

The lead community group applicant confirms on behalf of the community garden group that they have all relevant written consents from individuals featured in the photographs, film or content submitted as part of their competition entry, including consents from parents/guardians of any children aged 16 and under, to share their photographs, footage or content with the RHS and BBC Studios for the purpose of the competition.

• If we decide to shortlist your entry or feature it on The One Show, BBC Studios may carry out limited background research about you. This may include searches of publicly available records such as participation in previous television productions; information from social media profiles, including Facebook, X, Instagram, TikTok and LinkedIn. The information obtained will be used to assess your suitability to be part of the programme and to inform the measures we put in place as part of our duty of care to ensure contributors involved in our productions are safe and free from harassment or discrimination and to ensure that nothing in our programmes damages the reputation of BBC Studios, the BBC or the RHS. BBC Studios may share this information with the BBC and/or RHS where necessary for purposes of selecting the finalists. The lawful basis for this processing of your personal data is our legitimate interest in determining your suitability to take part in the programme, protecting our reputation and fulfilling our obligations to the BBC and our duty of care to our contributors. To the extent we may process special category, relating to you as described, our lawful basis is your explicit consent. Where relevant, we will contact you to obtain your consent before we carry out these checks. If you do not consent to us carrying out background checks or withdraw your consent before we have carried out the searches, you will not be able to take part in the programme. We will need BBC to confirm what checks they will be carrying out, and amend this section as necessary.

If you are providing personal data about other people in your community group, as the lead community group applicant you must ensure you have the consent from those people before submitting your entry. The RHS will share entry details with The One Show production team for the purposes outlined above, as far as possible identifiable information will be removed before doing so.

The RHS, BBC and BBC Studios will keep the winning entry and the runners up lead community group applicant’s details for up to 2 years for audit and regulatory purposes. The RHS and BBC Studios will delete all completed and incomplete entries of all unsuccessful entries within 60 days following the announcement of the winning entry and the runners up.

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Please read the RHS’ full RHS Privacy Policy to find out more about how the RHS uses your personal data and how to exercise your rights under applicable data protection laws.

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