National Landscape Awards is introducing a new category this year - Nature Conservation and Biodiversity Enhancement
2020 set new records for the British Association of Landscape Industries’ National Landscape Awards, albeit in very different circumstances W
ow! What an awards ceremony we experienced at our virtual National Landscape Awards.
I would like to start by congratulating those members that were awarded a prestigious National Landscape Award, Principal and/or Special Award, and of course, the highly coveted Grand Award. The latter was won by Accredited Contractor PWP Landscape for their spectacular private residence in Yorkshire. Congratulations to all of our winners. Whilst last year’s ceremony was missing the celebratory atmosphere of being together inside The Great Room at the JW Marriott Grosvenor House, Park Lane, London, there was still a sense of occasion and grandeur that we have come to expect from our leading awards ceremony, the largest of its kind anywhere in Europe. We were lucky in other ways as the awards was enjoyed by over 1,600 guests, the most we’ve ever recorded watching at any one time, many of whom may not have been able to make the trip to London. If you are a winner, make sure you maximise the potential press and publicity opportunities by promoting your achievement using the appropriate winner logo and link to our website baliawards.co.uk.
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LANDSCAPE NEWS SPRING 2021
BALI National Landscape Awards 2021
Entries are now open for our 45th National Landscape Awards. Although we cover the story in more detail on page 12, I wanted to personally thank our loyal sponsors who have already signed up for this year’s event, in particular Accredited Supplier Green-tech who have confirmed their headline sponsorship for another three years. I would like to encourage all Accredited members to enter a scheme. For our smaller landscape contractors, garden designers and supplier members it may seem daunting, but I welcome one and all to share your experiences, passion, determination and drive with fellow landscaping colleagues at the largest industry awards in Europe. You have absolutely nothing to lose and everything to gain. Visit baliawards.co.uk for more information.
Member engagement
Due to COVID-19 and current lockdown measures, at the time of writing, we had to hold all of our Regional Annual General Meetings
virtually in January. Following my update to members during the pre-show, which took the form of a 90-minute online national event, we had a great presentation from Accredited Designer Jilayne Rickards MBALI and Ben West of Accredited Contractor Landscaping Solutions.
Topics they covered included: • Reasons for choosing to work with each other • How their relationship translated to the client and what they wanted out of the project • The reuse and recycle aspect of the project and Jilayne’s passion, along with the client, to reduce the carbon footprint of the garden and overall project • What materials were used and how they were sourced • What were the challenges and how they overcame them. If you missed the pre-show, a recording of the event is available in your video resource library in the member’s area of our website.
The regional AGMs were, in the main, well attended and some great discussion points were covered.
