RHS and BBC The One Show’s Pocket Garden Makeover Competition 2025 terms and conditions

Entries are now closed for the RHS & BBC The One Show’s Pocket Garden Makeover Prize 2025. The information below about how to get involved is for reference purposes only.

The deadline to submit entries is 5pm on Friday 28 February 2025. The results will be announced on the BBC’s The One Show.

The RHS and BBC The One Show Pocket Garden Makeover 2025 is a prestigious competition which brings with it a certain degree of media spotlight. It is important to the RHS and the BBC that all entrants, finalists and the winner have the best experience and care possible. Please take the time to read through these Terms and Conditions to ensure you understand how the Competition operates, including what will be required of you if you are a finalist or winner.

  1. ABOUT
    1. The RHS and BBC Studios Pocket Garden Makeover 2025 aims to make gardening accessible to all and will transform the small garden/outdoor space of one prize winner (the Competition).
    2. The Royal Horticultural Society, with registered charity number 222879/SC038262 of 80 Vincent Square, London, SW1P 2PE (the RHS), is the promoter of the Competition. The Competition is supported by BBC Studios Productions Ltd, with registered company number 09463829 and registered office address of 1 Television Centre, 101 Wood Lane, London, W12 7FA (BBC Studios), and promotional broadcast is on the BBC.
  2. HOW TO ENTER
    1. You may nominate yourself or someone else. If you are nominating someone else, please obtain their prior consent and provide them with a copy of these terms and conditions. By entering the Competition, you, and where applicable the nominated person, agree to be bound by these terms and conditions.
    2. The entry window runs from 7pm on Tuesday 18 February 2025 (the Opening Date) to 5pm on Friday 28 February 2025 (the Closing Date).
    3. To enter, the nominator must complete the online entry form and submit it, together with two images in support of their entry, by the Closing Date. Please ensure the photos show the outdoor space and do not include people or children.
    4. Entries received after the Closing Date will be disqualified. 
    5. No purchase is necessary and there is no charge to register for use of the website.
    6. The RHS, BBC, BBC Studios, and their sub-contractors, subsidiaries and/or agencies cannot accept any responsibility whatsoever for any technical failure, loss of data via use of a third-party email platform or malfunction or any other problem, which may result in any nomination not being properly registered for any reason.
    7. For help with entries, you may contact gardencompetition@rhs.org.uk.
  3. ELIGIBILITY  
    1. To enter, the nominee (and their nominator if applicable) must be a resident in the UK (including the Channel Islands and Isle of Man) and aged 18 years or over.
    2. To enter, the nominee must confirm that:
      1. it is the only garden/outdoor space at the nominated address;
      2. it is a small garden/outdoor space, up to approximately 15 square metres in size;
      3. you (or they) have permission from the landlord or homeowner, if applicable, to the transformation of the garden/outdoor space; and

      4. it is a small garden/outdoor space, up to approximately 15 square metres in size 

    3. To enter, the nominee (and their nominator if applicable) must agree to take part in any pre- or post-prize publicity as required.
    4. You may not enter if anyone participating is:
      1. an employee of the RHS or the BBC or their group companies;
      2. an employee of the RHS’ or the BBC’s agents or suppliers or their group companies, who are professionally connected with the Competition or its administration; or
      3. a member of the immediate families or households of (a) or (b) above
    5. By entering, the nominator confirms that they and the nominee are eligible to enter and the nominee is eligible to claim any prize awarded. You may be required to provide the RHS and BBC Studios with proof of eligibility.
    6. All entries must be your original work (or that of your nominated person) and must not infringe the rights of any other party. The RHS, the BBC and BBC Studios will not accept entries that are: automatically generated by computer; completed by third parties or in bulk; illegible, have been altered, reconstructed, forged or tampered with; photocopies and not originals; or incomplete. The use of generative AI tools to create or develop any part of an entry is not permitted and will lead to disqualification.
    7. The RHS and the BBC Studios may refuse entry, or refuse to award a prize, to anyone who is:
      1. in breach of these terms and conditions; or
      2. acting in any way that goes against the spirit or intention of the Competition
  4. JUDGING AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
    1. Stage 1: To facilitate judging, the RHS and BBC The One Show will review the eligible entries, entrant data and photos to do an initial sift, followed by an assessment to create a longlist based on:
      1. the impact a garden makeover would have on the winner, or those around them; and
      2. the creativity and imagination suggested for the transformation, and how it would relate to or benefit the winner
    2. Stage 2: The RHS and The One Show will review the longlist with the relevant photos and addresses to consider feasibility of the transformation and to create a shortlist. As part of the review, the BBC The One Show team may undertake social media checks relating to you (and where relevant your nominated person). By entering the Competition, you confirm that you (and where relevant your nominated person) have not acted, or omitted to act, in any way that may bring you, the RHS, BBC or BBC Studios into disrepute. Information that you disclose to us, or which we discover, will inform our selection process. BBC, BBC Studios and the RHS may at their discretion, disqualify your entry based on this information. This information will be shared with the BBC’s editorial policy advisor and with the RHS (where appropriate) and will be handled in the strictest confidence and as with all personal data, in accordance with the Privacy Notice.
    3. Stage 3: The shortlist will be passed on to a panel of judges made up of a representative from BBC Studios (The One Show), a representative from the RHS and the garden designer leading the transformation. The panel of judges will choose the finalists.  A remote or in-person visit to nominated gardens/outdoor spaces may be required as part of the selection process.
    4. The RHS will notify the finalists from 19 March using the details provided on the entry form. The RHS will make reasonable efforts to contact the finalists. If a finalist does not respond to the RHS within two working days, another finalist will be selected by the panel of judges.
    5. Once the finalists have been notified, BBC Studios may contact all finalists (and their nominator if applicable) to arrange a broadcast interview(s) and/or to film them for social media videos.
    6. All finalists (including their nominators, where applicable) will need to be available for a selection of dates between Monday 14 April 2025 and Friday 2 May 2025 for filming. The finalists will be informed if they are the winner during filming. The winner and the winner’s garden/outdoor space may also be filmed during the garden/outdoor space makeover and on its completion.
    7. The panel of judges’ decision as to the finalists and the winner is final and no correspondence or discussion will be entered into.
    8. The RHS and BBC intend to announce the winner and the finalists from 5 May 2025 (the Announcement Date) on The One Show. The RHS and the BBC may change the Announcement Date (including to meet any BBC editorial requirements which leads to a change in schedule or programme content) or the way in which they announce the winner and finalists, at their discretion. 
  5. THE PRIZE
    1. Out of the finalists, one winner will receive a garden/outdoor space consultation and makeover by a renowned garden designer up to the value of £6,000.00. This will include design fees, construction, materials and plants.
    2. The consultation and garden/outdoor space makeover will take place between 19 March and 2 May 2025, on dates to be confirmed with the designer and the winner.
    3. The prize is not negotiable or transferable and there is no cash alternative.
    4. The RHS and BBC Studios will pay contractors directly.
  6. PUBLISHING DETAILS OF THE PRIZE
    1. The RHS must either publish or make available information that indicates that a valid prize took place. To meet this requirement, the RHS will announce the name of the winner and the finalists, and, if applicable, details of the winning entry, and details of the nominator(s) on The One Show from the Announcement Date and publish those details on the RHS website. On request from the Advertising Standards Authority, the RHS will also provide the name of the winner to the ASA. 
  7. RIGHTS TO USE THE COMPETITION ENTRY SUBMISSIONS AND TO PHOTOGRAPH AND FILM FINALIST ENTRIES
    1. Each of the RHS, the BBC and BBC Studios may, but is not required to, make any part of your entry submission available on the RHS and BBC websites, on the BBC, iPlayer and any other media, in connection with any publicity relating to the Competition. The winner, finalists, nominees, and nominators (where applicable) grants each of the RHS and the BBC a non-exclusive, worldwide, irrevocable licence to use, display, publish, transmit, copy, edit, alter, store, re-format and sub-licence any part of their submission for such purpose.
    2. The winner and finalists confirm that the BBC, BBC Studios and the RHS may (subject to obtaining any necessary individual consents):
      1. film their garden/outdoor space, which may be broadcast on the BBC and iPlayer, and extracts shown on the RHS website, and BBC and RHS social media channels; and
      2. take photographs of their garden/outdoor space for publication 
    3. The winner and finalists confirm that where they are not the landlord or homeowner, they have obtained written consent from the landlord or homeowner for the BBC to film and photograph the garden/outdoor space as outlined above.
  8. DATA PROTECTION AND PUBLICITY
    1. If you are nominating another person, the nominator confirms they have obtained consent from the nominee before submitting their entry.
    2. The personal data you supply as part of your entry submission will be used by the RHS, the BBC and BBC Studios for the purpose of running the Competition. This includes selecting, contacting and announcing the finalists and the winner; organising the makeover; using the entry submission, filming and taking photographs of the winning entry, winner and potentially finalists and for audit purposes, as set out in these terms and conditions.
    3. For more information about how your personal data will be used and your rights, see the Competition Privacy Notice.
  9. LIABILITY
    1. To the extent permitted by law, the RHS, BBC, BBC Studios and their agents or distributors will not be responsible or liable to compensate you, nominated persons, finalists or the winner or accept any liability for any loss, damage, personal injury or death occurring as a result of either entering the Competition or taking up a prize, except where it is caused by the negligence of the RHS or the BBC group, as applicable, their agents or distributors or that of their employees. Your statutory rights are not affected.
  10. GENERAL
    1. The RHS reserves the right to:
      1. amend the Competition where it becomes necessary to do so; and 
      2. disqualify any nomination that breaches these terms and conditions, is fraudulent in any way or brings the BBC, BBC Studios or RHS into disrepute
    2. These terms and conditions are governed by the laws of England and Wales, and the parties submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts.
Find out more: See information about the RHS and BBC The One Show Pocket Garden Makeover Competition 2025 >

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