Your space
Photo competition
National Trust

About the competition

This year marks the centenary of the death of one of our founders, the brilliant social reformer and environmentalist, Octavia Hill. Octavia was passionate about encouraging people to enjoy the benefits of nature and open spaces.

Your Space is our photo competition aimed at celebrating your favourite green spaces, and people enjoying them – something that we believe Octavia would have definitely encouraged.

The competition includes all green space in the UK, not just National Trust places, and hopes to capture images of everyday green places.

These could include pictures from the local park, where people play with their kids or walk their dogs, or favourite strolls in the countryside.

What is important is that the images capture what these places mean to you, the photographers, and why they matter.

  • Read more about the competition in the summer magazine
Octavia Hill
“We all need space; unless we have it we cannot reach that sense of quiet in which whispers of better things come to us gently... [and we need] places to sit in, places to play in, places to stroll in, and places to spend a day in”
Octavia Hill, 1883

The categories

There are four categories in the competition: 10 & under, 11 to 16, over 16s and smartphones.

Our smartphone category means you can still enter a great shot, even if you’ve left your camera at home. You’ll still need to download it to your computer first before you can upload and enter it into the competition.

You’ve got until 31 August to be in with a chance of winning, so enter today.

The Judges

A panel of judges, including professional photographers Mary McCartney, Joe Cornish, Arnhel de Serra, Charlie Waite, Sue Herdman (Editor of National Trust Magazine) and Chris Lacey (Photographic Manager of National Trust Images), will decide on the winners for the four categories. One of the category winners will then go on to be the overall winner of the competition.

See Charlie’s top tips for getting a great shot, and be inspired by images from the professionals.

The prizes

The prize for the overall winner, worth £1,500, will include a bespoke one-to-one day long workshop with award winning landscape photographer Charlie Waite, a special landscape print and up to two nights stay in a National Trust holiday cottage.

The three runners-up will join Charlie at a National Trust property for day which includes lunch and behind-the-scenes tour.