HOW THE CAMPAIGN WORKS?

The campaign runs all year round, in which local communities, Londons Villages, Towns & Town Centres, London Boroughs and the Business Community via Business Improvement Districts. Each year registration is opened in November and closes in late February. Judges & Assessors are assigned, and visits are arranged from mid-June to mid-July. Judges and assessors visit each entry and assess/judge to nationally agreed-on criteria. The results are announced at an award ceremony in September or October. Entries can get involved for as long as they wish but are encouraged to enter each year so their efforts can be recognised and feedback allows for further development. Participants get involved in community events, projects, and activities that involve local people and improve the quality of the surroundings.

These activities may include group litter picks, bulb planting days and projects with local schools. In addition, entries may run local competitions (i.e. best front Garden, best shop/pub frontage etc.) to motivate people to get involved.

All the events and activities will form an integral part of a community’s entry into London in Bloom in the mainstream categories. Communities enter “in Bloom” in the appropriate category based on their confirmed/verifiable electoral roll. In London in Bloom, we have the following categories:

London in Bloom runs competitive and non-competitive categories, with the non-competitive It’s Your Neighbourhood being free to enter. 

Once registered for London in Bloom, you will receive all the particulars of participation from us, including the seminars and workshop dates. 

But one of the standard elements of participation is a visit from our “in Bloom” judges/assessors 

Judges & Assessors’ scores and reports are verified during August, and certificates and trophies (for winners) are presented at the annual awards to which all are invited. 

For further information about categories, please click on the Awards & Categories menu or go directly to our registrations and enquiries site  https://www.inbloom.org.uk/Home.aspx

. In London in Bloom we have the following categories:

Once registered for London in Bloom you will receive all the particulars of participation from us but one of the standard elements of participation is a visit from our “in Bloom” judges/assessors which normally happens in June/July. Exceptions being that (*) will be initially desktop judged with the shortlisted entries receiving a visit.

Another feature of the campaign is our awards ceremony where we present the results of the judging/assessing, this usually takes place in September.

An Entrants seminar is organised and usually run in February or March and all entrants are invited. In April a judges meeting is held and judges are allocated a category to judge/assess. A pair of judges is selected for mainstream entries and a single judge is selected for Schools and RHS Britain in Bloom It’s Your Neighbourhood entries.

Entries are usually judges from mid-June to mid-July.

For those who are involved in Britain in Bloom finals judging usually takes place in August.

Judges scores and reports are verified during August and the annual awards to which all are invited usually takes place in September each year.