Next up on our BALI Chalk Fund at 50 series is Lynn Hunter (pictured above receiving the Grower of the Year Awards in 2005 on behalf of Coles Nurseries). Lynn joined the Fund Support team in 2025 alongside Diane McCulloch, but has over 25 years’ in the landscape and horticulture sector behind her. What has
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The feature picture above shows Stuart Phillips, BALI Chalk Fund Trustee in a hole in the rose garden behind the Palm House at Kew. His feet are on London gravel, and his shoulders are at 14 foot down (or the reach of a 360 degree digger). Stuart has kindly shared this photo of his early
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Next up in our “BALI Chalk Fund at 50” series, Richard Gardiner, Trustee and owner of NAG Solutions shares a little of his memories from his landscape industry experiences over the years. Over to you, Richard! What do you wish you knew when you started your career in the landscape sector? I wish I’d been
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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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