Custodian Awards Winners Gallery
The Horticulture Week Custodian Awards celebrate the best of parks, gardens and tree management, giving gardens and green space managers working to ensure the best possible future for all kinds of green spaces, the chance to showcase their achievements, reward team effort and highlight to stakeholders the vital role they play.
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CUSTODIAN GALLERY: 2019 WINNERS

Horticulture Week Custodian Award - Horticulture Week Custodian Award
Winner - David Richardson, DIrector of Horticulture, Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Horticulture Week Custodian Award - Best Planting Design (site or series of sites under three hectares in total)
Winner - Horniman Museum and Gardens for Grasslands Garden

Horticulture Week Custodian Award - Tree Service of the Year
Winner - Bournemouth Parks Tree Service

Horticulture Week Custodian Award - Best Neighbourhood Park
Winner - London Borough of Islington for Gillespie Park

Horticulture Week Custodian Award - Best Grounds
Winner - The University of Winchester Campus Management Team

Horticulture Week Custodian Award - Garden or Arboretum Team of the Year
Winner - Historic Royal Palaces' Hampton Court Palace gardens and estates team

Horticulture Week Custodian Award - Best Parks Restoration or Development Project
Winner - Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council for Mary Stevens Park HLF Project

Horticulture Week Custodian Award - Best New Funding Initiative
Winner - Sheffield City Council, Parks and Countryside Service for Public Health Funding in Sheffield's Parks and Countryside

Horticulture Week Custodian Award - Best Garden Restoration Project
Winner - Mount Grace Priory, English Heritage for New arts and crafts garden

Horticulture Week Custodian Award - Best Green Space/Infrastructure Strategy
Winner - Jon Sheaff & Associates for London Borough of Croydon Natural Capital Account

Horticulture Week Custodian Award - Best Community Health/Wellbeing Initiative
Winner - Nature's Way, Eden Project

Horticulture Week Custodian Award - Best Garden or Arboretum (6+ staff)
Winner - Hidcote Manor Garden, National Trust

Horticulture Week Custodian Award - Best Garden or Arboretum (1-5 staff)
Winner - Abbotsbury Subtropical Gardens

Horticulture Week Custodian Award - Best Partnership: Third Sector (parks, gardens or tree care)
Winner - Greenbelt Group and the Woodland Trust for Glenrothes Woodlands
2019 Custodian Awards
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Custodian Gallery: 2018 Winners

Horticulture Week Custodian Award 2018
Winner - David Sutton, Estate Manager, Howletts & Port Lympne Wild Animal Parks

Horticulture Week Custodian Award - Best Visitor Initiative
Winner - The Parks Trust's Linear Parks Events Programme

Horticulture Week Custodian Award - Best Volunteer Initiative
Winner - The Parks Trust's Volunteer Strategy

Horticulture Week Custodian Award - Best Heritage Park
Winner - Victoria Park, Erewash Borough Council

Horticulture Week Custodian Award - Best Community initiative
Winner - Walmer Castle, English Heritage & Deal-With-It for Deal Community Hop Farm

Horticulture Week Custodian Award - Best Parks Partnership - Commercial
Winner - Glendale Lewisham Partnership

Horticulture Week Custodian Award - Best Tree or Woodland Partnership
Winner - The Conservation Volunteers & OVO Energy

Horticulture Week Custodian Award - Best Urban Parks Team
Winner - Mid and East Antrim Borough Council

Horticulture Week Custodian Award - Best Parks Partnership, Third Sector
Winner - Wandle Valley Regional Park Trust, Living Wandle Landscape Partnership

Horticulture Week Custodian Award - Best Gardens or Arboretum Initiative
Winner - Burkes Wood and Lakeside Meadows, Trentham Gardens, St Modwen

Horticulture Week Custodian Award - Best Gardens or Arboretum Team
Winner - Trentham Gardens & Estate Team, St. Modwen

Horticulture Week Custodian Award - Best Gardens or Arboretum (1-5 staff)
Winner - Brobury House Gardens

Horticulture Week Custodian Award - Best Gardens Restoration/Development Project
Winner - Furnace Wood and Meadow, Bodnant Garden National Trust

Horticulture Week Custodian Award - Best Parks Restoration/Development Project
Winner - Watford Borough Council
2018 Finalists

Finalists for the Horticulture Week Custodian Awards 2018
Thirty-five outstanding teams and organisations were shortlisted for the Horticulture Week Custodian Awards 2018.
Custodian Awards Supporter

THE PARKS ALLIANCE
The Parks Alliance (TPA) is the voice of UK parks, representing the people and organisations that create, maintain, invest in and use the public green spaces that we are proud to have at the heart of British life. We campaign at local, regional, and UK levels to ensure that parks are properly funded, their roles recognized and developed, and that the benefits that they provide are clearly understood and recognised.
Custodian Awards Charity Partner

PERENNIAL
Perennial offers free, confidential financial and emotional advice, help and support to everyone working in or retired from horticulture and their families, including gardeners, landscapers, nursery and garden centre staff, parks and grounds care staff and tree surgeons. Many describe Perennial's services simply as a 'lifeline'. The work of the charity depends entirely on voluntary donations from the horticultural industry and the garden-loving public.
2017 Custodian Award Winners

Horticulture Week Custodian Award - Best heritage park
Winner - Thiepval Team, Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Horticulture Week Custodian Award - Best food-growing initiative
Winner - Edible Gardening project, RBG Edinburgh

Horticulture Week Custodian Award - Best community/volunteer initiative
Winner - Observatree, Woodland Trust

Horticulture Week Custodian Award - Best gardens restoration/development project
Winner - The Bath, Bodnant Garden, National Trust

Horticulture Week Custodian Award - Best gardens or arboretum (six-plus staff)
Winner - Trentham Gardens, St Modwen

Horticulture Week Custodian Award - Best parks restoration/development project
Winner - Croome Parkland, National Trust

Horticulture Week Custodian Award - Best urban park initiative
Winner - a new vision for Nene Park, Nene Park Trust

Horticulture Week Custodian Award - Best urban parks team
Winner - Parks Service, London Borough of Islington

Horticulture Week Custodian Award - Best gardens or arboretum team
Winner - Woburn Gardens team, Woburn Abbey

Horticulture Week Custodian Award - Best urban tree initiative
Winner - iCo Green, London Borough of Islington

Horticulture Week Custodian Award Winner - Martin Towsey, Woburn Abbey
The Bedford Estates gardens manager Martin Towsey has made an outstanding contribution to horticulture during his 33 years in the profession.

Horticulture Week Custodian Award - Best parks partnership - third sector
Winner - Northumberlandia, the Land Trust

Horticulture Week Custodian Award - Best community health initiative
Winner - Countess of Chester Country Park, The Land Trust

Horticulture Week Custodian Award - Best gardens or arboretum (one-to-five staff)
Winner - Walmer Castle Gardens, English Heritage

Horticulture Week Custodian Award - Best gardens or arboretum initiative
Winner -Batsford Arboretum, The Batsford Foundation

Horticulture Week Custodian Award - Best parks partnership - commercial
Winner - Watford Borough Council/Veolia

Horticulture Week Custodian Award - Best visitor engagement event
Winner - Brown at Work, Croome, National Trust
CUSTODIAN AWARD WINNERS 2016
2016 WINNERS cont.
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Horticulture Week Custodian Award - Winners - Jim Buckland and Sarah Wain, West Dean Gardens
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Horticulture Week Custodian Award - Best Urban Park Initiative
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Horticulture Week Custodian Award - Best Sports Grounds Initiative
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Horticulture Week Custodian Award - Best Amenity Woodland/Forest Initiative
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Horticulture Week Custodian Award - Best Gardens Restorations/Development Project
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Horticulture Week Custodian Award - Winner - Leighton-Linslade Town Council