Horticultural Award Submission Writing Services

Whether you’re a garden centre, a wholesale plant nursery, a garden designer, a garden that’s open to the public, a gardening maintenance company, or a horticultural professional looking for career recognition, writing a great entry is the difference between winning and losing an award.

Our writers are experienced in creating winning entries. Every year, we turn out winning submissions in a variety of professional award competitions.

Our award writing service can help you:

• Find your story that will impress judges
• Showcase your talents and achievements
• Advise on what to leave out of your submission
• Create an award submission of the highest journalistic quality
• Develop a professional biography you can reuse throughout the year.

Got a question? Give Dan a call on +44 7922 736 382 or send a message.

Why you may not be winning awards you deserve

Many worthy nominees lose out in the first round because of the way the submission was written. There’s a lot to consider, which is why it makes sense to hire a professional award writer to improve your chances of winning. Our writers have years of experience judging international awards. They understand explicitly why many award entries fail, because they’ve been in the judge’s chair.

Some of the more common errors include:

• Spelling, grammar, punctuation, and word usage errors
• Failing to construct a narrative
• Going over word count
• Not providing evidence to back up your claims
• Littering your award submission with gobbledygook
• Sins of omission or avoiding discussing setbacks
• Misinterpreting the questions
• Including information not listed in the judging criteria
• Emphasising the wrong information
• Using industry jargon the judging panel doesn’t understand
• Using acronyms not known outside your industry
• Not answering questions or leaving questions blank
• Not understanding the purpose of the award program
• Not learning about the judging panel
• Not investigating past winners
• For individual awards, giving your team too much credit for your success
• For corporate awards, taking too much credit for a team effort
• Providing false information
• Not giving yourself enough time to develop a thoughtful award submission.

Getting to the judging finals

If you want to get to the next round of judging, and ultimately end up at the winner’s podium, the first step is to submit a solid entry to the judges. Our business award writing experts are experienced in creating winning entries.

We’ve collaborated for more than 10 years with the Business News and developed writing seminars for the Business News 40Under40 awards and the WA Business Awards. Our award submission writing services turn out winning entries every year in a variety of professional award competitions, including local, state, national and international award programs.

Award entry writing service from Typeset

A Typeset award entry consultant helps you:

• Find your story that will impress judges
• Showcase your talents and achievements
• Prove why you should win
• Advise on what to leave out of your submission
• Create an award submission of the highest journalistic quality
• Develop a professional biography you can reuse throughout the year.

Award submission writer process

Typeset has developed a process to guarantee the best results achievable for any award program.

1. Gathering information about the specific award
2. Conducting an interview – can be in-person, over the phone, or an online meeting
3. Writing the submission, ensuring everything is within word count. The first draft is delivered approximately two weeks after the interview.
4. Reviewing and revising the award entry to ensure every bit of detail is included to give the nominee the best chance of winning (approximately 1-2 weeks). Ideally two rounds of edits are required.
5. Final proofreading of the award submission (one-day turnaround)
6. Submitting the final draft in a Word document to the customer.

Each customer manages the award submission process by copying/pasting all necessary information into the awards platform.

Give Dan a call on +44 7922 736 382 or send a message to chat about your needs.

About Typeset’s award submission writing services

We can write submissions for any award in the horticultural industry, for example:

Business Awards

• Garden Centre of the Year
• Horticultural retailer
• Small-business excellence
• Sustainable business award
• Customer service excellence
• Innovation in retail
• Online horticultural retailer
• Family business awards
• Regional business awards

Professional Awards

• Garden Designer of the Year
• Horticultural educator award
• Grower of the Year
• Botanical research excellence awards
• Commercial horticulture professional awards
• Horticultural journalist awards
• Sustainability champion awards

Specialist Category Awards

• Specialist plant nursery awards
• Landscape design excellence awards
• Urban gardening award
• Garden innovation awards
• Green infrastructure awards
• Botanical conservation awards
• Sustainability awards
• Online retailer awards
• Horticultural training provider awards
• Commercial growing excellence awards

Local and Regional Awards

• County horticultural business awards
• Regional agricultural excellence awards
• Local business chamber awards
• Tourism and hospitality awards
• Regional enterprise awards

Professional Body Awards

• Royal Horticultural Society Awards
• Chartered Institute of Horticulture Awards
• British Association of Landscape Industries Awards
• Landscape Institute Awards
• Society of Garden Designers Awards

Sustainability and Innovation Awards

• Green business awards
• Circular economy awards
• Environmental innovation awards
• Climate action award
• Biodiversity champion awards.

We can also help write award submissions outside the horticultural industry.

Ready to chat about your needs? Call on +44 7922 736 382 or shoot Dan a message. Even if you don’t see exactly what you need in the list above, get in touch for an obligation-free chat.

Why choose Typeset?

Typeset is a small editorial services agency. We only do writing, editing and proofreading. (And it’s experienced humans who create your award submission—we don’t use AI).

Our co-founder, Dan Hatch, is an RHS-qualified journalist. He’s got more than 25 years’ experience writing articles for newspapers, magazines and business clients, and many years’ experience writing winning award submissions for clients across a wide range of sectors.

He’s a member of the Garden Media Guild and is the current editor of the guild’s magazine for members, GMG News. He’s written for publications as diverse as Inside Horticulture, Gardening Australia and The Telegraph.

Dan is passionate about plants and garden design. He successfully completed his Level 2 Certificate in the Principles of Horticulture in 2021.

Dan is based in London, United Kingdom, but Typeset works across the English-speaking world, including Australia and the United States.

All our award submissions are professionally proofread by our ACES-qualified proofreader, Wendy Wood, before we send them to you for you to submit.

Give Dan a call on +44 7922 736 382 or send a message for an obligation-free chat about your needs.

Looking for long-term writing support for your garden business?

We’d love to help you with your brochure and catalogue needs, whether it’s one small pamphlet or your major annual publication.

We can also help you with all your other business writing needs, including:

• Blog posts and articles
• Newsletters
• Case studies
• Copy for brochures and catalogues
• Plant and product descriptions
• Social media posts
• White papers and annual reports
• Year-round editorial ideas
• Proofreading any written content created in-house
• Any kind of written content you need.

If you really want to put a rocket under your marketing, our team can also help you with your long-term content marketing strategy.

Content-based marketing:

• Generates more than three times as many sales leads as outbound marketing and costs 62% less (according to CMI)
• Increases traffic to your website, making you more easily discoverable
• Creates a connection with your customers and builds loyalty
• Builds a valuable, long-term business asset you can use again and again.

If you want to find out more about content marketing, give Dan a call on +44 7922 736 382 or email him. (There’s no obligation. He’s always happy to chat about content marketing, blogging, plants and gardening.)

Trust us with your writing needs (and get on with what you do best)

Outsourcing your writing to Typeset ensures you’re submitting a high-quality, word perfect, powerful and persuasive award entry.

Let Dan and the Typeset team handle your writing for you.

It’s what we love to do.

Give Dan a call on +44 7922 736 382 or send a message to chat about your needs.