Go wild for wildlife in your garden this year and apply for our Wildlife Gardening Award!
Go wild and apply for Yorkshire Willdife Trust's 2025 Wildlife Gardening Award!
Since launching our award in March 2023, we’ve rewarded over 500 gardens for their incredible efforts to make their spaces more wildlife friendly.
We love to see the efforts in gardens of all shapes and sizes as people dig in and take part. We have created 3 new awards - bronze, silver and gold - to inspire and reward you for doing your bit to make Yorkshire wilder!
Whether you have a large garden or a small balcony, your outside space can play a vital role in creating stepping stones and corridors, providing connectivity for wildlife through urban areas, linking towns and villages with green spaces and countryside.
With an estimated 24 million gardens in the UK, the way we care for our outdoor space can make a BIG difference to the natural world.
We’d love to receive applications from different types and sizes of garden, whether you look after a garden at your home, in a community space, school, workplace, or care home.
Qualifying gardens will receive a certificate and, for a small fee, a plaque that can be proudly displayed in your garden!

How can I make my garden a haven for wildlife?
We've got everything you need to get started - or take your efforts that bit further. Dig into our Wildlife Gardening Hub pages, packed with advice, inspiration and top tips from industry experts to help you create a vibrant, wildlife-friendly garden!
“Whether they’re big or small, gardens are amazing places where we can interact with wildlife, watching a buzzing bee or listening to the cheerful singing of birds. By making small changes to how we look after our gardens we can play an important role in improving and maintaining habitats for all kinds of wildlife, from ponds to drink, leaving seed heads to eat and fallen leaves for birds and frogs to rummage for slugs. Help your garden come alive and you might find it has the same effect on you.”author of A Greener Life, living near Hebden Bridge
Wildlife Gardening in Action
Inspiring stories from fabulous wildlife friendly gardens across Yorkshire.
How do I enter?
To qualify for our Bronze Wildlife Gardening Award, you must have at least 12 of the features below and at least 2 from each category (food, shelter, water, management and connectivity).
To qualify for Silver, you must have at least 24 of the features below and at least 3 from each category.
To qualify for Gold, you must have at least 36 of the features below and at least 4 from each category.
A few of these actions are mandatory because we believe these essential elements should feature in every wildlife-friendly space.
You will be asked to submit two photos showing your garden.
Are you experiencing technical difficulties or need a hand filling out our form? Please contact supporter.services@ywt.org.uk for support.
What to do if you don’t qualify
Discover how you can make your garden more wildlife friendly.