Not raking leaves over winter.

Build a pallet box- it holds quite a lot of leaves .

IME the key is not to be too fussy about it but lift the large drifts where the leaves tend to collect. A loose scattering over the garden (including lawn) will do not harm and will in fact be beneficial.

Mine mostly go to the tip, I’ve got a huge compost surplus anyway and too many trees.

I've got two bays made from pallets - and I compost most of the leaves in there.
We've a neighbour with 7 large sycamores which overlap our property. If I left the leaves nothing at all would grow in our garden.

We rake our leaves onto the raspberries. It cuts down on weeding and the leaves rot down fertilising the raspberries which thrive when they pop back up in the Spring. I assume bugs are happy wherever the leaves are.

I made a compost cage out of gabion basket mesh and spirals. Seems to be doing the job so far, and won't rot as fast as a wooden one would. No idea on the bugs, but the leaves are on the ground exactly the same as they would be anyway, just in a place where I'm happy for them to be (edge of the garden, under a tree)
Still a pita picking the damn things up all winter though!

My compost bin is full, so having left the fallen leaves from my Acer over the winter I raked them up a week ago and put them into my council garden waste bin. The biggest pile was in a corner of my patio, the rest was spread fairly evenly over the lawn, which is pretty sparse under the tree anyway, mainly because half its roots go under the patio, so it sucks that bit of lawn dry. I’m trying to encourage moss, clover and other things that like shady areas into the lawn anyway.
Doesn’t seem to have made much difference.
Hopefully the yellow rattle plugs I’m getting will keep the grass from getting too long and rank.
I noticed B&M are selling raspberry canes, I was thinking about getting some, I’m rather partial to raspberries, as well as blackberries, but I’m not too keen on allowing blackberries to get established in my garden, the bloody things keep trying to creep in from outside now!

There are enough wild brambles without inflicting them on yourself! Easy to maintain too (cut back in winter IIRC).

Our garden is surrounded by hedges and a tree, meaning we get a lot of leaves. These are mostly raked and left over autumn, winter and most of spring to mulch down in bio degradable bags. The mulch is then used for the base of roses, apple trees and other large border plants.
The rest of the leaves get left for wildlife. Hedgehogs and blackbirds find the grubs and bugs and worms will drag some under the soil.
It's never good to completely tidy a garden but I agree brambles are a complete menace in a small space

I noticed B&M are selling raspberry canes, I was thinking about getting some, I’m rather partial to raspberries, as well as blackberries, but I’m not too keen on allowing blackberries to get established in my garden, the bloody things keep trying to creep in from outside now!

Raspberries tend to creep too - but not as much as brambles. We have a continual job from now until autumn removing raspberries which appear in places we don't want them. Consider putting a barrier in the soil to stop them spreading.
I love the raspberry jam they make though, providing my daughter doesn't eat them all first.

Last autumn I didn't do as much leaf clearing as I usually do, remembering that I was told as a child that worms pull the leaves down into the soil and improve it. Now I have completely bald patches on the lawn where the leaves formed an impenetrable mat and prevented anything from growing. Lesson learned.

onewheelgood - your lawn will soon recover.

lawnmower to hoover them up on dryish days in autumn, compost them to refeed lawn in spring