Britain in Bloom Awards 2023

Babbacombe Bay win the Sargent Cup in the 2023 awards, bringing the cup back to Torbay after 52 years.

Babbacombe Bay was presented with a Gold Award in the Sargent Cup and also the cup

It’s Your Neighbourhood Awards:

Millennium Copse – Level 5 Outstanding

Rose Garden – Level 5 Outstanding

St Marychurch Precinct and Foxlands Walk – Level 5 Outstanding

Babbacombe Downs Buglife Bed– Level 5 Outstanding

Chilcote Memorial Corner– Level 5 Outstanding

Area Neighbourhood Awards:

The Precinct Centre – Level 5 Outstanding

Petit Plot Community Garden – Level 5 Outstanding

Tessier Gardens Friends Group – Level 4 Thriving

Abbey School -Level 4 Thriving

Gold Business and Tourism awards go to:

The Babbacombe Inn

The Model Village

The Cary Arms and Spa

Special awards were presented to Shirley Holbrook and Ian Cawley

St Marychurch does it first.

The Bloomers organised the bunting to be up for the Coronation so a big thank you to Steve Holdup and to Andrew Uglow of Pyramid Torbay Photography for the photo.

 

Support Babbacombe Bay Bloomers

We Bloomers’ Volunteers are ready to Spring into action as soon as the rain eases. Look out for us in our lime green hi viz jackets and give us a friendly greeting.

We give our time and labour for free and receive little financial support from Council Departments so your donation, of any amount, will be valued by us and help us make St Marychurch a nice place to be.

Donations can be made by visiting https://gofund.me/ffa89231

Donations can be made by visiting https://gofund.me/ffa89231

Great British Spring Clean 2023

Babbacombe Bay Bloomers spent a morning litter picking the verges of the St Marychurch Bypass, the Hampton grassland and around the shopping Precinct area, helping to support the Keep Britain Tidy ‘Great British Spring Litter Pick’ 2023.

 

Planter News

We give a fond farewell to a number of the wooden planters that have served us well over many years.

Hello to two very heavy concrete planters, that match our existing ones have been donated by the Precinct Centre.

Welcome to our new Self Watering Planters paid for by the Lottery Community Fund. The benefits are: Made from recycled plastic they are hard-wearing, long lasting and low maintenance, also with an Eco-friendly self-watering reservoir they save time, money and water waste.

 

News update

We are at present updating our news posts. Watch this space.

The Great British Spring Clean

Babbacombe Bay Bloomers spent a morning litter picking the verges of the St Marychurch Bypass, the Hampton woodland and around the shopping Precinct area, helping to support the Keep Britain Tidy ‘Great British Spring Litter Pick’.

Christmas in St Marychurch

The St Marychurch shopkeepers and businesses went all out for the Snowman Trail and window displays.

The proceeds were donated to the Bloomers team to go towards next years Summer bunting and flowers.

 

South West in Bloom Presentation Event at Weston Super Mare October 2021

We were presented with a Gold Award in the Portman Cup along with the Barry Cruse trophy for the Best Web Site in the South West in Bloom Competition. We were thrilled to win this award for the first time in our history. The South West in Bloom area stretches from Bristol/Bath all the way down to Penzance and over 60 groups enter the competition each year.

Our web site is maintained and kept up to date by Bloom Team member Linda Dennis who takes most of the photos, collates the information and writes the articles. Without the hard work of all the Babbacombe Bay Bloom volunteers there would be no photos or articles to write. It is truly a team effort.

Gary Vine, Director of Aspire Direct Marketing Ltd developed and designed the web site for us and continues to manage it, adding our updated information into the web system. We are very grateful for his help. The web site is informative, colourful and has a good mix of our group activities and news items.

The judges were impressed with our efforts and had an enjoyable visit to the area, commenting that ‘the Precinct is a very inviting place to visit, shop and dine’ and that we were an ‘attractive and inviting area’. They also said the Model Village was outstanding and they were impressed with the work of SWISCo.

We enjoyed the day at Weston Super Mare, it was interesting to hear about the hard work and projects created by other Bloom Groups, giving us fresh inspiration. Torbay as a whole had a very successful day at the ceremony, and we congratulate Brixham, Paignton & Torquay for their awards, their magnificent floral displays and community involvement. Well done all of Torbay.

Babbacombe Bay Bloomers – South West in Bloom Results 2021

We won an RHS South West in Bloom Gold Award in the Portman Cup

The Barry Cruse Trophy for the Best Web Site

The Cary Arms was Best Runner Up in the Sean Cregan Trophy (Best Floral Pub)

We were also nominated for:-

The Michael Gahey Trophy (Exceptional community effort)

The Cary Arms, Babbacombe for the Amberol Trophy (Best Business Floral Display)

The results for the ‘It’s Your Neighbourhood’ awards:-

Babbacombe Cliff Railway – Level 4 Thriving

Babbacombe Downs – Level 5 Outstanding

Babbacombe Millennium Copse – Level 5 Outstanding

Babbacombe Rose Garden – Level 5 Outstanding

Babbacombe St Marychurch Precinct – Level 5 Outstanding

Babbacombe Tessier Gardens Friends Group – Level 5 Outstanding

Petit Plot Community Garden – Level 5 Outstanding