Sue Allen

Sue Allen

Chairman of the Board of Trustees

Current Chairman of the Board of Trustees. Sue and her late husband Dick established Millbrook Garden Centre in Crowborough, East Sussex in 1979. The second Millbrook opened in Gravesend, Kent in 1994.

Following Dick’s sudden death in 1997 Sue became Managing Director and some years later she was delighted to welcome her eldest daughter, Tammy, into the business. Tammy became Managing Director in 2009, at which point Sue retired and became President of the International Garden Centre Association for two years.

Sue is Chairman of the Millbrook Garden Company which now has three centres in the South East of England and continues to be a Family-run business with Tammy, her husband Ben and her sister Kirsty all involved.

Chairman of GCA 2002-04