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Meet our winners – Love Your Countryside Awards 2026
Congratulations to all our award winners Mike Lanning
To mark CPRE’s centenary, we launched our new Love Your Countryside Awards to celebrate the amazing projects and people that make our Somerset countryside so special. We had a great response and we are delighted to announce our winners!
We organised a joyful event at the Coronation Hall, Burrowbridge in June to present the awards to our winners. They range from small, grassroots projects to large, ambitious developments. They are all making a difference to people’s lives and to the landcapes and nature of rural Somerset – and we think that’s worth celebrating! It was great to meet our winners and the room was buzzing as people shared ideas and made new connections. Many thanks to Hastoe Housing Association for sponsoring our awards.
Watch the short videos below to find out more about the winners in each category.
Blue or Green Spaces Category Winners:
- Fox’s Field Forest Garden
- Elm & Hairstreak Project
- Green Corridor Woodland Creation Scheme
- Stowey Green Spaces Group
- Tidy Up Taunton
Countryside Access Category Winners:
- Bloom & Roam
- Ham Hill Country Park
- Cocklemoor Paths Improvement Programme
- Shepton Mallet Community Woods
Countryside Changemaker Category Winners:
- Cheddon Fitzpaine Parish Council
- People For Packsaddle
- Somerset Eel Recovery Project
- Sustainable Wootton Courtenay
- Wilder Enmore & Goathurst initiative
- Mike Ginger & his family
Housing Solution Category Winners:
- Rainbow Way, Minehead
- Shiremoor Hill, Merriott
- Wyvern Fields, Sparkford
Rooftop Solar Category Winners:
- The Lucky Chance, Frome
- Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Pavilion, West Coker
- Wyvern Fields, Sparkford
