Team Wilder wildlife gardening competition 2023

Wildlife gardening is a bloomin' great way to help nature near you thrive. That's why we launched this wildlife gardening competition!

With thanks to the Natural History Consortium and the Community Pollinator Fund from the West of England Combined Authority, we'll be celebrating the amazing green spaces across our region that are making a difference for wildlife. We want to see your blossoming balconies, small urban nature havens, sprawling back gardens, community patches, nature-friendly allotments, school outdoor spaces and everything in between.

This is all part of Team Wilder, a growing movement of people who notice and celebrate nature in their day-to-day lives, taking super-local actions to tackle the ecological and environmental crisis as a collective.

The competition is now closed, you can still share your actions for nature to inspire others on the Team Wilder map.

1. Choose which category describes you and your garden best: Individual, Community, Education or Food Growing
    
2. Submit your garden using this form by 16 July 2023, where you'll be asked a few questions and have the opportunity to upload photos or videos to show it off - which must have been taken in the last 12 months. 
    
3. Receive your poster to show that you're taking action for nature, and display it to encourage others to take part!
    
4. At the end of the summer, three finalists from each category will be selected by our panel of judges, who will receive a visit from the Team Wilder Ecologist to chat about their wildlife garden and get some expert advice. A professional photographer will also attend, to take pictures which will then be used for the final public vote.
    
5. The professional photographs will be put to a public vote, and the winner announced in the early autumn.

For more details, see the wildlife gardening competition 2023 T&Cs

Everyone who enters the competition will receive a poster they can display to show they’re taking part and get their neighbours involved.

All 12 finalists will be visited by a Team Wilder Ecologist, to talk about their wildlife garden and offer expert advice. A photographer will also attend to take the photos which will then be used for the final public vote.

There will be one winner from each category, who will go on to receive:

• A wildlife camera, to capture the visitors to their garden
• £75 voucher to spend at Grow Wilder
• Prints of the photographs taken of their green space
• A wildlife gardening book from the author, journalist and TV presenter Kate Bradbury
• Ecological advice