Pride in My Street

In 2025, many residents will be preparing their front gardens for our Certificates of Merit scheme. However, we’ve taken the decision to replace it this year with a new scheme called Pride in My Street.

Banners and posters will be going up all around town in the coming weeks with all the details of how you can take part. Download your poster here.

Last year, it became very clear that visiting every house in town is becoming increasingly challenging. Some streets or properties were being missed, there were suggestions of inconsistency with the marking scheme and that some residents might perhaps not be following the spirit of the scheme.

So now, Pride in My Street will encourage everyone along their street to participate in enhancing the area in which they live. It will encourage weeding, adding planters, litter picking, sign cleaning, adding wildlife corridors etc. Then photos will be submitted via email to enter the scheme with a chance to win a share of £1,000 for the best or most improved street in the form of Our Bury St Edmunds Gift Cards and shared equally between every house in the street. This will keep all prize money within our town and encourage community engagement.

We could not do this without our sponsors Greene King — to them we owe a huge thanks.