Up to £100 vouchers up for grabs as our Budding Neighbourhoods competition returns for 2024!

Our online-only competition runs from today, Monday 5 August, until 5pm on Friday 23 August 2024, and customers entering are once again asked to showcase your planting and growing efforts in your home and garden. To enter, you need to upload an image on our website.

There are three categories in the competition, which are: A Brew and My View, which allows residents to show off their planting efforts while enjoying a relaxing cuppa; My Garden Harvest, focusing on customers who have grown their own food items, and Garden Genius, highlighting the inventive ways residents have transformed their garden. The first prize in each category is £100 Love2Shop vouchers, with second and third place in each category receiving £50 and £25 respectively.

Emma Cafferky, our Stronger Communities Manager, said: “We’re really excited that our much-loved Budding Neighbourhoods competition is coming back once again for 2024. The competition recognises and celebrates our customers who make an effort to keep their homes and gardens looking lovely.

“On the whole, we've had a relatively wet summer so far, which isn’t great for us as humans but for our plants and gardens, it’s magnificent. We’re looking forward to seeing what beautiful spaces are entered this year.”

We'd love to see as many entries as possible. Entries can be made our website www.fcho.co.uk/BuddingNeighbourhoods.

If you would like support with digital submissions, you can email our Stronger Communities team at ci@fcho.co.uk or call 0161 393 7117.

The winners will be contacted after the competition closes and winning images shared on our website and social media channels.

Good luck to everyone taking part!