New Forest Awards 2025

Who are your New Forest champions? Time to nominate!

We’ve teamed up with the Country Land and Business Association (CLA) once again with our annual awards celebrating rural success stories in the New Forest.

The New Forest National Park Awards, now in their 12^th year, recognise outstanding contributions to the environment, rural economy and local communities in and around the National Park.

Winners will be announced at a special awards ceremony and drinks reception at the New Forest and Hampshire County Show on 30 July. The event is supported by Moore Barlow and the New Forest Agricultural Show Society.

This year, as the New Forest National Park marks its 20^th anniversary, a new award – Commoning Champion – has been introduced to recognise individuals playing a vital role in sustaining this unique practice which helps maintain the Forest’s landscape and biodiversity.

Nominations are now open for the following categories:

Sustainability Champion
Young Farmer (aged 35 and under)
Best Supporter of Local Produce
Young Environmental Champion (aged 25 and under)
Farming and Nature Champion
Commoning Champion (new for 2025)

Individuals, businesses and organisations can nominate themselves or be nominated by others, but must be living, working or practising within the New Forest Awards area (see map here).

Nominations close on Sunday 8 June 2025. Nominate by filling in the form below and pressing submit.

Please read the Awards Regulations documents at the foot of this page.

New Forest Awards Nomination 2025

About the Awards

The CLA and New Forest National Park Authority have launched their 2025 joint awards. 

The annual awards celebrate the best local food and drink producers, commoning champions, farming and nature champions, young farmers, sustainability champions and young environmental champions who support the New Forest’s landscape and economy. 

To qualify, nominees must live, work or practise within the awards boundary on the last page of the criteria document on the awards page. 

The winners in each category will be presented with a trophy at an awards ceremony at the New Forest Show on Wednesday 30 July 2025.

To make your nomination, please complete and submit this form by midnight on 08 June 2025.

Please note: you are allowed to nominate on behalf of yourself or your business, or submit a joint nomination. Please read the awards criteria document to help you complete your nomination.

Which award are you making a nomination for? *

Farming and Nature Champion

Commoning Champion

Young Farmer (aged 35 and below)

Best Supporter of Local Produce

Sustainability Champion

Young Environmental Champion (aged 25 and below)

Your full name *

Your email address *

Your telephone number (no spaces) *

Nominee's full name (you can nominate yourself or others) *

Nominee's email address *

Nominee's telephone number (no spaces) *

Nominee's date of birth (only required for Young Farmer and Young Environmental Champion categories) *

Why the nominee should win? (up to 500 words, please give as much detail as possible for our judges) *

Nominee's location *

Thank you for nominating in our CLA awards.

How we use your information
 
We will use your personal data for administering the New Forest Awards 2025. The lawful basis for our use of this information under the GDPR is Article 6(1)(f) where processing is necessary for the legitimate interests pursued by the controller, in this case the NPA’s legitimate interest in administering the competition in a fair and proper manner.

Your information will be held securely and will not be used for any other purposes, nor will it be supplied to anyone outside the NPA without first obtaining your consent, unless we are obliged or permitted by law to disclose it. 
 
We will retain your personal information for a period of three months after the closing date of the competition, after which time it will be deleted from our systems, with the exception of the winning entries.

Where you are nominating a person other than yourself, it will be your (the nominator’s) responsibility to obtain permission from the nominee to nominate them before submitting their nomination.

If you, or the person you nominate, are a finalist, the personal data may be processed in the context of Awards-related PR and press opportunities (pre and post event). These will include photography, media interviews, use of your case study / story in any PR, video, social media, TV and press. Owners have the option to remain anonymous in post event publicity. If you choose to do so, please let us know.

If you wish to withdraw from the process at any time, please let us know by contacting dpo@newforestnpa.gov.uk. We will then delete all of the personal data we are processing on you for the purposes of the Awards.

More details on how we hold personal information can be found at: http://www.newforestnpa.gov.uk/privacyandcookies.  
 
Should you require further information about how your details will be used or stored and/or would like to access any information we hold about you, please contact our Information & Data Protection Officer on dpo@newforestnpa.gov.uk.  Your data will be held by the New Forest National Park Authority. We promise to protect your privacy and the data we gather and hold is managed in accordance with the Data Protection Act. We will not disclose or share personal information supplied by you with any third party organisation without your consent.

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