LET’S GET BUZZING 2022

Let’s get buzzing 2022

Tidy Towns groups are encouraged to get buzzing and enter the Local Authority Pollinator Award in the national Tidy Towns competition. The award, with a €10,000 prize fund, supports Tidy Towns groups  to implement pollinator-friendly actions.  This includes a  “Best Newcomer Award” with a prize of €1,000.

Wild Irish bees, crucial to the pollination of our plants, trees and vegetables, are in decline and this award aims to reverse this trend by encouraging Tidy Towns groups to take simple pollinator-friendly measures in their local area.

Solitary Bee (Courtesy of National Biodiversity Data Centre

The closing date is Friday 10th June 2022. For more details and application forms, see https://pollinators.ie/communities/tidytowns-pollinator-award/enter-the-2021-local-authority-pollinator-award/ or contact the Kilkenny Heritage Officer.

The Local Authority Pollinator Award supports the All-Ireland Pollinator Plan and is sponsored by the Heritage Offices & Biodiversity Offices of Local Authorities across Ireland, in partnership with the National Biodiversity Data Centre.  The National Biodiversity Data Centre have produced a short video to promote this award and to view it click here

For the English version of the application form click here
For the Irish version of the application form click here