Do you have a front garden you’re proud of? Are you rethinking your front door step? Do you want your balcony to support biodiversity? Do you love nature, birds and mini beasts? Then the Ealing Biodiversity Awards for gardens is for you!
Local biodiversity competition returns for 2025
In collaboration with Cultivating Ealing and Ealing Council, ActForEaling is thrilled to announce the return of this local award (previously known as the Biodiverse Front Gardens and Balconies Competition) is open for entries. This award is all about finding the most beautiful, biodiverse front gardens in the borough! It is free for residents to enter and there are cash prizes for each of the five competition categories:
- Front gardens
- Micro gardens
- Street or community garden
- Schools
- Allotments
Inspiration from 2024
Last year judges poured over dozens of incredible entries from households, communities, allotments and schools. Entries ranged from community hanging baskets providing local beauty and essential food for pollinators to “wild” doormats that had evolved into perfect little eco-systems. Whether it was a balcony crammed with plant life of a front garden array of potted flowers, every single entry was making Ealing a more beautiful and biodiverse community for all. Check out just a handful of the entries below….
Plant power
With over 75,000 front gardens throughout the borough and countless more balconies and terraces, together they are a huge force for good. Plants are our superheroes, they reduce pollution, absorb carbon and combat flooding. Plants cool excessive urban temperatures, provide food to pollinators and create homes for mini beasts. Did you know that gardening has also been proven to improve both physical and mental health? The search is on to find green spaces in Ealing that are good for nature and biodiversity.
Get planting to enter
This award aims to celebrate and inspire a greener and more biodiverse community with a webpage full of tips and ideas and cash prizes about the latest in gardening. 2025 is the year for Ealing to reach for some soil and get planting.
The deadline for entries to categories 1-3 of the Ealing Biodiversity Awards for Gardens and Green Spaces 2025 is 23:59 on 30 June 2025. The deadline for entries to the Schools category is 23:59 on 23 May and for the Allotments category 23:59 on 9 June.
Discover more by visiting the competition webpages.