Get ready to make your Township bloom
16 May 2007
It’s time for green-fingered gardeners to get ready to do battle
for awards in the 2007 Rochdale Townships in Bloom competition.
This year’s competition will be officially started at Rochdale
Town Hall at noon on Thursday 24 May. It will once again provide a
local focus to the regionally-organised North West in Bloom
awards.
The Rochdale Townships in Bloom competition is all about local
people and local projects. It is designed to encourage improvement
of the local environment for the benefit of all, with brighter
gardens and backyards as well as community projects that help to
support learning and enjoyment.
The success of the competition has been greatly helped by the
committed support of the competition’s sponsors: The All in One
Garden Centre, Casey Group and the Observer Group of Newspapers, as
main sponsor, helping to make the Townships of Heywood, Pennines,
Middleton and Rochdale better places in which to live and work.
Anyone can enter – whether you are a single
householder proud of your garden, back yard or hanging basket, a
hotel or business with well kept grounds, or a member of a
community group involved in local environmental projects, there is
a category for you!
Rochdale Townships in Bloom is free to enter and Certificates of
Merit will be awarded to prize-winners in each category. There’s a
new category this year for the best garden at a Council property,
sponsored by Rochdale Boroughwide Housing (RBH), which manages the
Council’s 14,500 Council houses.
All you need to do to enter is fill in the form and send it in.
You should receive confirmation of your entry by 1 July and
preliminary judging will take place during the first two weeks of
July. Final judging is likely to be the third week of July.
Townships In
Bloom entry form (72kb pdf file)
Everyone is welcome to attend the launch event on 24 May – just
let the Council know if you are attending by emailing web.team@rochdale.gov.uk
or phone 01706 925726.
Even if you can’t make it, you can start digging and planting –
let’s see the borough bloom this summer!
Rochdale Townships in Bloom entry categories:
- Household garden - Prizes to 1st, 2nd and 3rd
- Back yards, balcony and small patio gardens - Prizes to 1st,
2nd and 3rd
- The All-in-One Garden Centre hanging baskets trophy
- Businesses – retail premises, offices, industrial and
commercial premises
- Best public house
- Community groups
- Schools’ environmental projects
- The Casey Group clean and green trophy
- RBH best Council home garden
For more information on any of the categories please contact a
member of the team on 01706 693000