Volunteer Award

The Volunteer Award is intended to celebrate volunteers and recognise the value of volunteering; showcase volunteers and the contribution they make; and encourage volunteering through a variety of roles.

You can read about the winners of last year’s Award here –  Barbara Moth and Claire de Carle.

Criteria

Anybody can nominate someone they know for the Award, but candidates must be active volunteers with either a County Gardens Trust or the Gardens Trust. They can be nominated as an individual or as a team.

Candidates will need to be volunteers involved in at least one of the following, in the past 2 years:

• Making a difference to the day to day running of a County Gardens Trust or the national Gardens Trust
• The research and conservation aspects of a County Gardens Trust or the national Gardens Trust
• Work for a County Gardens Trust or the Gardens Trust to reach new audiences to encourage interest and/or involvement in garden history

We are proud that there are many other volunteers, including those who are particularly long-serving, and intend to thank them in other ways.

Please email Catherine.ford@thegardenstrust.org if there is someone you would like to highlight.

To make a nomination

Nominations are now closed for 2025 but will reopen later this year for 2026.

Fill in the form below or alternatively download a GT Volunteer Award Application Form here and return this to Catherine.ford@thegardenstrust.org.

You may wish to email Catherine sooner to check that your nominee hasn’t already been put forward by someone else.

The 2025 winner will receive a unique framed certificate and glass keepsake, and will be announced at our Volunteer Celebration at Stowe on Tuesday 9 July – book your free ticket here.