Main theme revealed for our 2025 conference We’ve revealed the overarching theme for our 2025 annual conference ahead of bookings opening for the event later this summer (July 2024). The Unique Garden Centre Experience The conference, which takes place in Reading in January, has ‘The Unique Garden Centre Experience’ as its main topic. Our Chairman,…
East 2024 regional winners revealed Garden centre staff throughout our East region are celebrating today after picking up awards during a presentation at Coton Orchard Garden Centre yesterday evening (Wednesday, July 17, 2024). The Garden Centre of the Year winners were Perrywood Tiptree in the Destination Garden Centre (DGC) category, Aylett Nurseries for the Garden Centre…
Our North region award winners announced Our North region members met yesterday afternoon at Strikes Stokesley Garden Centre for their Area Award presentations (Tuesday, July 16, 2024). Destination Garden Centre of the Year, (DGC) was presented to Barton Grange, the Garden Centre (GC) award went to Fron Goch Garden Centre and Local Garden Centre (LGC)…
Our 2024 South East region award winners are revealed Teams at garden centres across our South East area are celebrating after scooping awards during a presentation evening yesterday at Haskins Garden Centre Snowhill (Thursday, July 11, 2024). South Garden Centres of the Year Garden Centre of the Year in the Destination Garden Centre (DGC) category was…
Bee and wasp venom awareness campaign Would you know what to do if you or another individual had a serious allergic reaction to a bee sting? Anaphylaxis UK’s successful Bee and Wasp Venom Awareness Campaign is back for 2024. The campaign will offer invaluable guidance on bee sting avoidance, recognising anaphylaxis symptoms, and the steps…
Our 2024 Midlands, Wales & West regional winners are crowned Staff at garden centres across our Midlands, Wales & West region are celebrating after scooping awards during a presentation yesterday afternoon and evening at Melbicks Garden Centre (Tuesday, July 9, 2024). Garden Centres of the Year Our Garden Centre of the Year winners were Planters…
We’re partnering nation’s first Net Zero Business Census We’re an official partner of the nation’s first Net Zero Business Census being delivered by the UK Business Climate Hub partnering with Planet Mark (June 2024). This is the largest national research initiative of its kind and includes a coalition of business associations and large corporates. Our…
Regional award meetings first in new area format Our four newly created member areas will meet for their first regional awards next month (July) to find out who has come top in our 2024 annual inspections. At our conference in January this year we agreed to reduce the number of geographical regions we have from…
BoT May figures reveal small positive year-to-date increase despite weather Our Barometer of Trade (BoT) figures for May are out today (June 19, 2024) and reveal that despite the weather there was a small positive year-to-date increase of +3.72%. According to the data from our member garden centres, 11 of the 13 categories recorded were…
New health & safety courses launched on GROW Six new online courses covering health and safety have been unveiled this month on our Garden Retail Online Workshops (GROW) e-learning platform (June 2024). This is the third, and final, batch to be added to GROW on this topic in 12 months. It covers 16 e-Learning courses…