Each year, the Royal Horticultural Society holds the Britain in Bloom competition. It is a year-round competition that allows groups to compete on a regional or national level by using gardening to transform their communities.
Initially, neighbourhoods and groups will enter their regional In Bloom awards and some winners will be entered into the Britain in Bloom awards. They also look for entries from tourist attractions, hotels, pubs and shopping centres.
The aim of the competition is to encourage the improvement of our surroundings through the imaginative use of trees, shrubs, flowers and landscaping. It also aims to achieve a litter free and sustainable environment.
Overall Winners 2024
- Fold House Park Limited - Best Caravan Park Award
- Care for Cleveleys - Best Urban Community
- Churchtown in Bloom - Best Small Village
- Garstang - Best Small Town
Discretionary Awards
- Cleveleys Bus Station - Best Art in the Community
- Fold House Caravan Park - North West in Bloom Sustainable Gardening Award
- Pilling in Bloom - 2024 Award for Gardening for Wildlife (Biovidersity)
- Wyre Estuary Country Park - 2024 Conservation and Environmental Award
Small Village category
- Churchtown in Bloom – Gold
Village category
- Nateby in Bloom – Silver Gilt
- Inskip – Silver
Large Village category
- Catterall in Bloom – Gold
- Great Eccleston in Bloom – Gold
- Hambleton in Bloom – Gold
- Pilling in Bloom – Gold
Small Town category
- Gold Garstang in Bloom – Gold
Large Town category
- Poulton in Bloom – Gold
- Fleetwood in Bloom – Silver
Urban Community category
- Care for Cleveleys – Gold
Large Park category
- Wyre Estuary Country Park – Gold
- Mount Park and Gardens – Silver Gilt
Small Accommodation category
- The Horns Country Inn and Dining – Gold
Caravan Park category
- Fold House Park Limited – Gold
Small Commercial category
- Poulton Cemetery – Gold
It’s Your Neighbourhood Awards
Level 5 Outstanding
- Love the Lane
- Stone Cross Gardens
- Cancer Help @ Croston House
- Garstang Memory Café
- Garstang Millennium Green Trust
- HASSRA Fylde Allotments/Brian House Community Garden
- Demonstration Garden
- The Bungalows
Level 4 Thriving
- Copp Gardening Community
- Veterans Community Garden
Level 3 Advancing
- Riverside Community Garden
- Great Eccleston Bowling Club
- St. Peter’s Church and Graveyard
- Westhead Walk Community Garden
Level 2 Improving
- Burlington House
Garstang in Bloom has been nominated to represent the North West in Bloom in the National Competition 2025.
How can you help?
Your area representative would be delighted to hear from individuals, businesses and organisations that would like to help with a donation or sponsorship. Some of the ways you can help are:
- Provide a donation, trophy or prize
- Sponsor a hanging basket, flower tub or floral landscape
- Plant a tree or adopt a roundabout
- And most importantly - give some time to help out planting, watering and weeding
Community involvement
There is always a lot of work to be done for the competition, including watering flowers, picking up litter, judging competitions, repairing street furniture, and many other tasks which help to maintain your town/village at its best for the visit of the judges.
Your local representatives are:
- Catterall - Maggie Newton - 01995 471766
- Churchtown Karen Davies - 07530 817 098
- Cleveleys Jane Littlewood jane@therabbitpatch.co.uk
- Fleetwood Lauren Harrison - 01253 872 444
- Garstang Alan Pearson – 07850 699 492
- Great Eccleston Hugh Glover - hugh.glover@me.com
- Hambleton Yvonne Walton - 07703 773 785
- Inskip Claire Nash 07788 546 241 Claire.nash@icloud.com
- Nateby Duncan Whitfield - whitfieldduncan33@gmail.com
- Pilling Stan Raby - 07761 623 700
- Poulton Melanie Carter poultoninbloom@gmail.com