2024 marks the 60th anniversary of Britain in Bloom and so to celebrate this special milestone, the RHS would like to invite you to join a year-long programme of celebratory activities. The theme for our 60th anniversary celebrations is ‘friendship’. We know that community gardening brings people together so we want to hear about the friendships that have blossomed through Bloom, It's Your Neighbourhood or other community gardening projects. Please share your story with us so that we can spread the joy of the relationships built through gardening. We'd love to hear from you and share your story.*

Tell us your story by completing this simple form. It should only take five minutes to submit your story, but make sure you read our privacy policy beforehand. We will only use the details provided to contact you with regard to your story and will store your details for the length of this project.

Please note, you cannot save your progress on this form. You need to complete it in one sitting.

We look forward to hearing from you.

RHS Communities team

*We’ll select and curate a selection of stories to use on our website, socials and publications and will follow up for supporting images and extra information before publishing stories throughout 2024. Due to the number of expected stories, it may not be possible for us to publish and highlight all your stories, however we’ll endeavour to showcase as many as we can.

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* 1. First name

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* 2. Surname

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* 3. Contact email address (we will only use this to contact you to follow up about your story)

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* 4. Which type of community gardening group do you belong to?

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* 5. If you belong to a Bloom group please state its name.

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* 6. Please select which Region & Nation your Bloom group belongs to.

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* 7. Are you a volunteer judge/assessor?

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* 8. Tell us your story - you might want to draft your answer to this in a Word document and then paste it into the form below. We'd like to hear about the friends you've made through gardening; perhaps someone was there for you through a difficult time, helped you to gain confidence and feel yourself again, or maybe you simply found joy through a shared passion for nature. How has being part of a community gardening group connected you to other people? (max 500 words please).

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