Working alongside our Trustees, Diane McCulloch is the first voice our Champions and prospective Champions will hear. So we thought we’d hear from her too, in our “BALI Chalk Fund at 50” series – and the image above shows our Diane at Tatton Park Flower Show where she helped Helen Elks-Smith, the garden’s designer, gain […]
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The deliberation is complete. The winners of the National Student of the Year Awards 2025 have been selected and notified – and we’re really pleased to be able to announce and congratulate: Chloë Webster from KLC West Dean for the Garden Design Student of the Year Award 2025 Archie Matthews from Myerscough College for the
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In the “BALI Chalk Fund at 50” series, we have been asking our Trustees and Team members to think back over their own landscape and horticultural careers – whether these go back 50 years or not! Paul Cowell, BALI Chalk Fund Trustee, Chartered Landscape Architect and owner of PC Landscapes takes the microphone next –
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In the BALI Chalk Fund’s 50th year, we have not only been celebrating everything that the Fund has achieved in a half-century of support for education and training in the landscape sector, but we have been thinking back. Thinking back to when we all started our careers in horticulture or landscape… Peter Jennins, Chair of
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A great meeting of like-minded, skills-driven industry and college leaders met yesterday (Wednesday 10 September 2025) at our second Annual College Forum. Well-attended with representatives from 5 land-based colleges as well as training providers, assessors, Trustees and employers, this event has grown in status, content and value over the last 12 months. An unmissable opportunity
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To be promoted at this week’s Annual College Forum at GroundsFest, the BALI Chalk Fund Enrichment Programme Funding window will shortly be OPEN. With bursaries of up to £5000 available for your college for this academic year, the Fund provides additional resources to enable your students and apprentices to gain added transferable skills value beyond
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Following last year’s successful BALI Chalk Fund College Forum at GroundsFest, the BALI Chalk Fund team will be looking again to engage with more colleges and training providers involved in delivering Landscaping, Horticultural and Garden Design courses across the UK. This year’s College Forum is for college and training provider tutors, faculty and course leaders.
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Originally set up in 1975 as the Geoffrey Chalk Memorial Fund in honour of one of the founder members of the British Association of Landscape Industries (BALI), the Charity now boasts: over 50 Champion supporters a healthy and growing role call of almost 70 Top Student Awards an average annual contribution of £40,000 towards work-ready
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Industry support is the very cornerstone of the BALI Chalk Fund. Without it, the funding, grants and Student Awards could simply not be delivered. With government support diminishing every year, education and training providers should look to external funding sources like BALI Chalk Fund to help set student career prospects up with the practical, technical
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The BALI Chalk Fund Top Student of the Year achievers have been announced. This year has seen a welcome increase in student entry numbers as well as colleges participating. As a consequence, the high standard of the efforts and entries has made final deliberations by each college’s tutorship all the more difficult. The Top Students
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