
Make a Metre Matter prize draw
Enter our prize draw and you could win a £1,000 voucher to spend at Crocus, or one of two runner-up prizes of £500 vouchers for Crocus
Join us and transform a metre of outdoor space for the good of the planet this year – it’s all part of our 2025 campaign to Make a Metre Matter. There are loads of ways you can make a meaningful difference, including growing plants for pollinators, growing veg to cut down on food miles and creating a compost heap. If we all transform one metre of space, together we can make a big difference.
If you plan to transform a metre this year, or have already transformed a metre, register your metre below, to be entered into our fantastic prize draw. The first entry, drawn at random, will receive a £1,000 voucher to spend at online gardening retailer Crocus. The second two entries, drawn at random, will each receive a £500 voucher to spend at online gardening retailer Crocus.
About Crocus
We are delighted to be partnering with Crocus to help you create your dream garden one meter at a time. To help you achieve this, Crocus have worked with some of the best in the business to curate tried and trusted border collections and plant combinations to help simplify the task. From dark corners to sun-baked borders, their mini border collections and plant combinations are designed to help you quickly find your way to planting schemes that will fill your garden with pollinators and colour. Find out more at Crocus.
PLUS everyone who registers a metre can claim 20% off full price plants at Crocus by using code GW20.
- The country's most trusted online gardening brand, rated as 'Excellent by over 60,000 customers
- The first nursery to have been awarded the PlantHealthy seal of approval
- They have grown and built over 40 RHS Chelsea Flower Show Gardens for the country's leading designers, and been awarded 35 Gold Medals & 12 Best in Show
Prize details
The first entry, drawn at random, will receive a £1,000 electronic voucher to spend at Crocus.
The second two entries, drawn at random, will each receive a £500 electronic voucher to spend at Crocus.
Please read our competition rules before you enter. Entrants must be UK residents, aged 18 or over. The winners' gift vouchers of £1,000 and £500 can only be used at Crocus, and can only be used in one purchase. The gift voucher is valid for 12 months from the point of issue.
How to enter
To be in with a chance of winning these fantastic prizes, simply register that you have transformed, or intend to transform, a metre for the good of the planet, by Friday 30 September 2025.
Terms and conditions
- The Promoter is Immediate Media Limited.
- The BBC Code of Conduct for competitions and prize draws can be found at https://www.bbc.com/editorialguidelines/guidance/code-of-conduct and all BBC magazines comply with the Code.
- The promotion is open to all residents of the UK, including the Channel Islands, aged 18 years or older, except the Promoter’s employees or contractors and anyone connected with the promotion or their direct family members.
- The closing date for entries is 23:59 on 30 September 2025.
- By entering the promotion, the participants agree:
(a) to be bound by these terms and conditions;
(b) that their surname and county of residence may be released if they win a prize; and
(c) that should they win the promotion, their name and likeness may be used by the Promoter for pre-arranged promotional purposes. - Entrants should enter by answering the question outlined above. Entries received after the closing date of the promotion will not be considered.
- Entrants must supply to Immediate Media Company Limited their full name, email address and daytime telephone number. The Promoter will use entrants’ personal details in accordance with the Immediate Privacy Policy (www.immediatemedia.co.uk/privacy-policy).
- Only one entry will be permitted per person, regardless of method of entry. Bulk entries made by third parties will not be permitted.
- The winning entrants will be the first entry drawn at random from all the entries after the closing date. The runners up will be the two subsequent entries drawn at random from all the entries after the closing date. The Promoter’s decision as to the winner is final and no correspondence relating to the promotion will be entered into. The Promoter may share the details of the winner with the prize provider for the purposes of fulfilling/delivering the prize.
- The first prize is a £1,000 electronic voucher to spend at Crocus. The two runners up prizes are each a £500 electronic voucher to spend at Crocus.
- The winners' gift vouchers of £1,000 and £500 can only be used at Crocus, and can only be used in one purchase. The gift voucher is valid for 12 months from the point of issue. To redeem your gift voucher: Visit www.crocus.co.uk. Choose the items you want and add to your Wheelbarrow. When you're ready, go to Your Wheelbarrow to check out. On the Payment page, enter your unique gift voucher code to spend your gift voucher. Please note: Crocus can't give change on gift vouchers, so make sure that the items you'd like to purchase are equal to or of a higher value than your gift voucher. Gift vouchers are valid until the expiry date shown. The prize is as stated, and no case or other alternatives will be given.
- The prize draw entry is open to entrants aged 18 years or older but exclude employees of the Promoter or its holding or subsidiary company and BBC Gardeners World, their immediate families, anyone connected professionally with the prize draw, or any person where entering this prize draw breaches any law or regulation of the jurisdiction in which they are resident. In entering the promotion, you confirm that you are eligible to do so and eligible to claim the prize.
- Only one entry per person will be available.
- The winners will be drawn at random after 30th September 2025.
- The Prize is strictly non-transferable to another person, or redeemable for cash.
- The winners will be notified within 30 days of the close of the promotion by email. If the winner cannot be contacted, or fails to respond within 14 days of such notification being sent, the Promoter reserves the right to offer the prize to a runner up, or to re-offer the prize in any future promotion.
There is no cash alternative, and the prize will not be transferable. Prizes must be taken as stated and cannot be deferred. The Promoter reserves the right to substitute the prize with one of the same or greater value. - The Promoter reserves the right to amend these terms and conditions or to cancel, alter or amend the promotion at any stage, if deemed necessary in its opinion, or if circumstances arise outside of its control.
- The Promoter does not accept any responsibility for lost, delayed or fraudulent entries.
- The Promoter excludes liability to the full extent permitted by law for any loss, damage or injury occurring to the participant arising from his or her entry into the promotion or occurring to the winner arising from his or her acceptance of a prize.
- The promotion is subject to the laws of England.
