Meadows and Grasslands Award Application Form
Thank you for entering the Meadows and Grasslands Awards for 2016. This award is open for community groups and education institutions.
Please use the questions below to tell us about your meadow. There is a limit of 2400 characters (approximately 400 words) for the open-ended questions. Please do send up to three pictures of your meadow if you have digital images to show us what it looks like.
Name of main contact:Name of community group or school:
Contact email:
Contact phone number:
Name of the meadow:
Postcode and/or grid reference of the meadow:
What type of business do you have: / Community group
School / Education establishment
Other (please specify)
Have you had any help with your grassland? If so please tell us the names of people and/or organisations that have helped you.
Briefly tell us the background to your meadow? i.e. how long have you owned or managed it? and when was it created if it has been restored?
Tell us about your grassland? i.e. the flowers present? the type of grassland like hay meadow, chalk grassland etc. and butterflies that you’ve seen? how do you manage it, for example as a hay meadow or with grazing animals? and how it has changed over time?
What has inspired you to manage your grassland in a wildlife-friendly way?
How does the local community use the grassland? i.e. what types of meadow-related events have you run? or how is the grassland used as an education resource? were any youth groups (e.g. scouts of guides) or other social groups (e.g. WI) involved?
What else are you proud of doing on your grassland for wildlife? i.e. banks for solitary bees, bat boxes, ponds, long grass for small mammals.
Tell us your plans for the next five years? i.e. are you thinking of expanding your flower-rich area?
Closing date for applications is 31st July 2016 and send your completed application form to:
or Fiona Perez
Plantlife
14 Rollestone Street
Salisbury
Wiltshire
SP1 1DX
If you intend to send images of your meadow please be aware that there is a 9MB limit on emails including attachments. Please send pictures separately if they are large, with the name of the meadow as the title of the email.
There is one award for each UK country, England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, and each country has a judging panel made up of Save our Magnificent Meadows partners and grassland specialists. All of the applications will be gathered together and sent to the judging committees for consideration. We will contact the winners separately and showcase their meadows on the Save our Magnificent Meadows website and within publications produced on the project within the eleven partner magazines.
Your personal data will not be used in any other way than to contact you about the award, and will not be kept on a database by any of the Save our Magnificent Meadows partners. We may contact other applicants that were not fortunate to win as their work may help to inspire other people, and even though we would like to award every applicant we are limited to one winner per country. Any pictures submitted as part of the application should be free for us to use and please note any credit for each photo in the photo name.
Good luck with your application.
Save Our Magnificent Meadows is the UK’s largest partnership project transforming the fortunes of vanishing wildflower meadows, grasslands and wildlife. Led by Plantlife, the partnership is made up of 11 organisations and is primarily funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund.
Save our Magnificent Meadows is:
· targeting just under 6,000 hectares of wildflower meadows and grasslands in nine strategic landscapes across the UK;
· giving people all over the UK the chance to visit, enjoy and learn about our wildflower meadows and grasslands;
· raising awareness of the desperate plight of our wildflower meadows and grasslands and equipping communities with the knowledge and skills to reverse this devastating trend.
To find out more information please see our website www.magnificentmeadows.org.uk.