How To Enter

How to enter

Garden and landscape designers and their suppliers, grounds maintenance, arboriculture and landscaping businesses, parks teams and professional gardeners – indeed anyone involved in the procurement, design, installation, or maintenance of green space and related facilities is welcome to enter the Horticulture Week Landscape and Amenity Awards for work carried out between 1 November 2007 and 31 May 2009.

To enter you will need to:

• Fill in the entry form

• Provide ten copies of your entry summary (see ‘how to write your entry summary’ below) outlining the nature of your achievement and the reasons why you should be considered for an Award

• Provide six good quality photographs or other pictorial evidence of your work

• Provide one copy of other relevant supporting material – financial data, testimonials, brochures etc

• Include your payment for the entry (see entry fee information)

•Send in your entry by the closing date: Monday 24th August 2009

To download a copy of the entry form please click here.

How to write your entry summary
The entry summary is your opportunity to explain what it is that you have achieved. Your summary, which should be no more than 600 words, should include the following:

1  What your goals were
2  What you did to achieve those goals
3  What you achieved
(i.e. the results of your work, project or enterprise)

• If you are entering a project, this section should highlight the elements of the project which you believe are outstanding, e.g. design, use of materials, technical prowess, community/client liaison, financial management etc.

• For all other categories your description of what you achieved should highlight both particular successes within the eligibility period as well as qualities possessed by the service, team, operation or individual which you believe are outstanding.