On Thursday 2 December at 11am, VSGP will hold our 44th Annual Victorian Schools Garden Awards Ceremony.

The Ceremony which is normally held at Melbourne’s Royal Botanic Gardens, will be held virtually.

VSGP advocate Costa Georgiadis will be hosting the event, recognising the amazing achievements of students and communities in their school gardens, and announcing this year’s Victorian Schools Garden Awards winners.

All participating schools will be sent a link to attend the ceremony on the day, it will also be made available on this website in the Awards home page.

With our Award entries now closed, the VSGP committee has been busy judging the 83 entries.

The committee have been extremely impressed by the number, and standard, of entries. And their achievements are made all the more impressive given the ongoing challenges of COVID restrictions and home-schooling.

The 44th Annual Victorian Schools Garden Award results will be announced on Thursday 2nd December at our Virtual Awards Ceremony. The results, and ceremony, will be published on our website.

We’ll provide an update about how you can attend our Virtual Awards Ceremony when we have more details.

Here’s last year’s Kevin Heinze Perpetual Award winners, Our Lady Star of the Sea Primary School, Ocean Grove, celebrating their win. Who will be this year’s winner?

The VSGP Awards Program recognises and celebrates the gardening achievements of students and their school/kindergarten communities.

There are $44,000 worth of nursery vouchers and garden products to be rewarded to winning schools/kindergartens.

We understand, that schools have not been properly attended by students for the last term due to COVID-19 and that gardens may not be at their usual standard. But our Awards Program is proceeding and we’d encourage you to enter. 

Whether you wish to enter your school garden prior to lockdown or the garden as it is today, is completely your choice. Entering is simple.

Entries close Friday 24th September 2021.

The VSGP grant applications entry record was broken for the second year in a row, receiving 478 grant entries from 260 schools across Victoria.

It was not an easy task for the VSGP committee choosing the 69 successful applicants with so many high-quality entries and amazing proposed garden projects.

It is promising to see so many schools wanting to undertake garden projects and introduce their students to real life learning opportunities in their school gardens.

Click here to view the 2021 Grant Recipients 

Award entries for 2021 are now open and offer another opportunity for schools to receive vouchers or products for their gardens with $41,000 worth of prizes available to be won.  In many grant entries, we read about existing garden which could easily qualify for an entry into the Awards.

For more information on the Awards, please visit the VSGP website.