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Operation Pollinator aims to support golf clubs and sports facilities to establish and manage areas of pollen and nectar rich wildflower habitat that will provide essential food resources and nesting habitat for pollinators, including native bees, butterflies and other insects.

There is no cost and no prescriptive commitment to being involved - just the desire to enhance the ecological value of the managed turf areas for the benefit of biodiversity, the people and the players who use it. 

Operation Pollinator brings together a community of turf managers to help each other and share their successes and experience, along with demonstrating the immense ecological value of managed amenity turf areas.

Enter the Syngenta Operation Pollinator Award 2027

Part of the Golf Environment Awards - supported by BIGGA

Why sign up?

When you first join Operation Pollinator we’ll send you a starter pack of information, signage and tools to help you communicate what you are doing and the benefits for your club, the industry and the ecology on your course or facility. Please provide your address to send the pack.
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Using ecology to engage with membersFind out how Melissa Winkworth and the team at Goring & Streetley have used ecology management to engage with members and the local community to improve the club's operation.

Using ecology to engage with members

Find out how Melissa Winkworth and the team at Goring & Streetley have used ecology management to engage with members and the local community to improve the club's operation.

Corhampton player power drives ecology successIestyn Carpenter reveals his secrets to restoring habitats for rare species that thrive in the chalkland environment.

Corhampton player power drives ecology success

Iestyn Carpenter reveals his secrets to restoring habitats for rare species that thrive in the chalkland environment.

Huntercombe balances enhancing ecology and stunning golfRead about the success of Grant Stewart and the Oxfordshire club's multiple initiatives to promote biodiversity, and communicate what they do.

Huntercombe balances enhancing ecology and stunning golf

Read about the success of Grant Stewart and the Oxfordshire club's multiple initiatives to promote biodiversity, and communicate what they do.

Newquay attracts birds back for seaside linksHear how Dan Kendle and the team at Newquay created habitats for Cornwall's coughs and other biodiversity. 

Newquay attracts birds back for seaside links

Hear how Dan Kendle and the team at Newquay created habitats for Cornwall's coughs and other biodiversity. 

Operation Pollinator Champion proves a winnerSteve Thompson had long been an advocate of Operation Pollinator in habitat creation at John O'Gaunt in Bedfordshire - and then he won the Award.

Operation Pollinator Champion proves a winner

Steve Thompson had long been an advocate of Operation Pollinator in habitat creation at John O'Gaunt in Bedfordshire - and then he won the Award.

Effingham winners of Operation Pollinator AwardHigh on the Surrey hills Effingham Golf Club has turned the clock back to create a genuine ecology asset that befits the natural environment and far surpasses what was there before.

Effingham winners of Operation Pollinator Award

High on the Surrey hills Effingham Golf Club has turned the clock back to create a genuine ecology asset that befits the natural environment and far surpasses what was there before.

Winner inspired by Operation Pollinator trainingElsham Golf Club's Anthony Darker was inspired by an early Operation Pollinator meeting. Just a few seasons later he was crowned as an Award winner.

Winner inspired by Operation Pollinator training

Elsham Golf Club's Anthony Darker was inspired by an early Operation Pollinator meeting. Just a few seasons later he was crowned as an Award winner.

Using ecology to engage with membersFind out how Melissa Winkworth and the team at Goring & Streetley have used ecology management to engage with members and the local community to improve the club's operation.
Corhampton player power drives ecology successIestyn Carpenter reveals his secrets to restoring habitats for rare species that thrive in the chalkland environment.
Huntercombe balances enhancing ecology and stunning golfRead about the success of Grant Stewart and the Oxfordshire club's multiple initiatives to promote biodiversity, and communicate what they do.
Newquay attracts birds back for seaside linksHear how Dan Kendle and the team at Newquay created habitats for Cornwall's coughs and other biodiversity. 
Operation Pollinator Champion proves a winnerSteve Thompson had long been an advocate of Operation Pollinator in habitat creation at John O'Gaunt in Bedfordshire - and then he won the Award.
Effingham winners of Operation Pollinator AwardHigh on the Surrey hills Effingham Golf Club has turned the clock back to create a genuine ecology asset that befits the natural environment and far surpasses what was there before.
Winner inspired by Operation Pollinator trainingElsham Golf Club's Anthony Darker was inspired by an early Operation Pollinator meeting. Just a few seasons later he was crowned as an Award winner.
Operation Pollinator wildflower seed on Turf Rewards

Get wildflower seeds with Turf Rewards

You can now order wildflower seeds for Operation Pollinator habitat creation using Turf Rewards points from Synegnta and ICL. There are mixes selected specifically for parkland, heathland and links style courses.  

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