Awards

London's Green Corners Awards

HOW TO ENTER LONDON'S GREEN CORNERS AWARDS.

The search is on to find our beautiful, unusual, unexpected, inspirational, gorgeous, delicious and witty green corners.

Anyone can enter these all-year round awards which celebrate the Londoners who brighten our lives, lift our spirits and do their bit for the birds and insects too.

Read about our June winners.

ENTER YOUR GREEN CORNER TODAY OR NOMINATE ONE THAT BRIGHTENS YOUR DAY

Find out how to enter here

With winners every month and a grand final later on, there's everything to play for

It’s the gardening competition you don’t need to have a garden to enter.

Pavement side patch or postage stamp size plot. Colourful roof terrace, balcony or simple window sill. Alleyway or serene sacred space away from the urban rush. Community area cared for by many or playground green corner for children’s flowers and vegs. Pretty mews transformed by green fingered neighbours or flashes of floral colour at bus stops and stations which brighten our journey round town.

Green Corners are for anyone to create and everyone to enjoy.

A YEAR IN THE GREEN

The awards run over a full year, showing London’s hidden green gems which come into their own at different times through the seasons, encouraging people to bring all year round colour, beauty and biodiversity to the urban landscape. We’ll be picking up to 11 winners every month to go through to the grand final when our expert judges will choose the winners of each of the categories below:

COMMUNITY GREEN CORNERS - urban green spaces cared for and shared by people living nearby (supported and judged by Archant London)
EDIBLE GREEN CORNERS where herbs, fruit and vegetables thrive (supported and judged by Capital Growth’s campaign for 2012 new growing spaces)
GREEN CORNERS FOR HEALTH AND WELLBEING
ON THE MOVE – green corners on boats or at stations and bus stops or seen from bikes, buses, cars, trains, tubes, taxis
MEWS GREEN CORNERS made colourful by green fingered neighbours (sponsored and judged by Lurot Brand)
NO MAN'S LAND– unloved and uncared for strips of land, alleyways or cut throughs.
PAVEMENT GREEN CORNERS - pavement patches and tree wells (in association with Guerrilla Gardening’s Pimp Your Pavement)
ROOF TERRACES, BALCONIES AND WINDOW SILLS with bird and insect loving plants (sponsored and judged by Capital Gardens)
SACRED SPACES peaceful places for quiet reflection (sponsored and judged by Natural England)
SCHOOL GREEN CORNERS where pupils and teachers get together to turn grey spaces green (supported by Tools Shed)
WATER-WISE GREEN CORNERS planted to flourish whatever the weather (sponsored and judged by Thames Water)
YOUNG LONDONERS – green corners created by young people under 25

London's Green Corners Awards are supported by The Tanner Trust.

How to enter

The prizes

Our judges

Planting for the bees, birds and insects. Read some tips here.

The Conservation Foundation is a partner in the United Nations International Year of Biodiversity. All Green Corners entries will be judged with biodiversity in mind.