SHOW US WHAT YOU’VE GOT this October We already know what an amazing spectrum of talent we have in the UK landscape sector. At BALI Chalk Fund, we celebrate this every year in our Student Awards and with enrichment grants to land-based colleges to make sure that throughput of talent keeps flowing into work-ready employees. […]
Keeping a hidden talent under wraps? BALI Chalk’s Landscape Open Mic Night Read More »
Last year at GroundsFest, the BALI Chalk Fund team hosted the first College Forum. A meeting of course heads, tutors and training providers of land-based courses across the UK, the College Forum marked a really useful step towards better collaboration, idea-sharing and established a community and forum to discuss the curriculum, skills, recruitment and issues
Let’s talk landscape: Online College Forum March/April 2026 Read More »
Student of the Year 2026 Awards launches The application window for this year’s Top Student of the Year Awards 2025/2026 opens on Monday 23 February 2026. Opening earlier this year to ensure that students have sufficient time to prepare and submit their applications before the end of the Spring term, this year’s Awards invite students
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Charlie White was studying at Merrist Wood College in 2024. His tutor, Anna Eyres, nominated him for his “attention to detail and his enthusiasm encouraging others – he always puts in 100% effort.” A year on from his BALI Chalk Student of the Year Award win in 2024, we asked where his award win had
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Before winning the BALI Chalk Landscape Student of the Year in 2023 and studying at Wiltshire (Lackham) College, Russell Fletcher was a builder, working for his father’s business. He attended the BALI National Landscape Awards event with his father, on what he sees as one of the most rewarding days of his career to date.
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By the time that Cameron Barker claimed the BALI Chalk National Landscape Student of the Year Award in 2022, he was already on the way to 10 years of planting experience. Working on a nursery and maintaining local gardens in the North West since he was at school, he kept his interest and eagerness to
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Joshua was nominated and awarded as National Landscape Student of the Year in 2020. Although unable to receive his Award in person due to the pandemic, he still remembers fondly how proud he felt; to have been nominated, a regional winner and then at the national level. Encouraged by his lecturer at Pershore whilst studying
Joshua Reid: Past Winner, Landscape Student of the Year 2020 Read More »
As we enter 2026 and head towards the next year’s award application window, we took some time to continue our follow-up of recent and past winners of the BALI Chalk National Student of the Year Awards. This time, we spoke to Chloë Webster, KLC Westdean student and winner in the Garden Design category. Chloë has
Chloë Webster: Our Garden Design National Student of the Year 2025 Read More »
The thrill and buzz of the BALI Landscape Awards 2025 is receding, and so we took a quieter moment to catch up with our 2025 BALI Chalk Landscape Student of the Year, Archie Matthews. Archie stood out as our National winner this year for his relentless commitment and high achievement, pushing himself at the World
Archie Matthews: Our Landscape National Student of the Year 2025 Read More »
The BALI Chalk Fund returned alongside fellow charity Perennial as this year’s Charity Partners at the BALI National Landscape Awards in London (5 December 2025). Armed with donation envelopes, card readers and a huge amount of support and enthusiasm, our Trustees, the BALI GoLandscape team and a delegation of Champions visited every table during coffee
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