Best year so far in the RHS Britain in Bloom Competition

2008 was our best year to date and represents the culmination of 5 years of development towards our goal of winning a gold award in the RHS Britain in Bloom National Finalists Competition.

Entry to the National finals is by invitation of your Britain in Bloom region in our case the South West Region. Each region can enter up to 6 locations into the national finals. It is obviously necessary to impress at regional level to be selected as one of the 6 and we are up against some strong entries from the south west. The South West Region entries for 2008 were:

Location	Category	Award	Category Winner
St Ives & Carbis Bay	Champion of Champions	Silver	Nottingham
Taunton	Large Town/Small City	Silver Gilt	Taunton
Cricklade	Small Town	Gold	Cricklade
East Budleigh	Village	Silver Gilt	Earsdon
Exmouth	Coastal(0ver 12k)	Silver Gilt	Exmouth
Clifton Village Bristol	Urban Community	Silver Gilt	Clifton Village

Cricklade were the only South West location to achieve a gold award in 2008 one of only 13 golds to be awarded in the national competition. In addition Cricklade won the Small Town category and two of the 14 discretionary awards.

You can read what the judges said about Cricklade at Judges comments and see the full national results on the RHS website.