February’s Barometer of Trade reveals catering & gifts led the way Our Barometer of Trade (BoT) figures released for February 2025 show members did the best in non-gardening categories. When compared with the same month in 2024, data from member garden centres show five of the 13 categories recorded performed well with catering once again…
New GROW Equality, Diversity & Inclusion in the workplace course Members are being offered a new course launched this month by our Garden Retail Online Workshops (GROW) e-Learning platform to help create inclusive workplace environments (March 2025). This is the 96th course to be added to GROW and it’s available to GCA member garden centres and…
Good news! We’ve reduced our fees to join GROW. To continue to provide our full members with the best value for money, we’ve reduced the fees to join GROW. All you’ll pay is: £500 + VAT for your primary centre (paid in year 1 only), plus £100 + VAT per additional centre (paid in year 1 only),…
Ben Clarke from Knights Nags Hall Garden Centre was named as the winner of our 2024 Westland Horticulture sponsored Rising Stars programme at our 2025 Conference (January 27, 2025). The application process is now open for 2025 nominations. If garden centre managers or owners have an outstanding staff member who would thrive with some personal…
Our Barometer of Trade for January shows ‘a steady start to the year’ January’s Barometer of Trade (BoT) figures released by us today (January 24, 2025) reveal members recorded ‘a steady start to the year’ with the year-to-date variance up +3.82%. When likened to January 2024, the results from garden centres for the month showed…
Chester unveiled as our 2026 conference location We’ve revealed the location and dates for our 2026 conference! Our prestigious annual event, organised by Chairman Elect, Ben Harrison Operations Director for Haskins Garden Centres, will be held at Carden Park Chester from January 25 until 28, 2026. Carden Park Chester Ben, who is helping organise the…
Best of the best garden centres revealed at our 2025 conference The winners of our most prestigious awards including our ‘Garden Centres of Excellence’ were announced at our annual conference yesterday (Tuesday, January 28, 2025) at the De Vere Wokefield Estate, Reading. ‘Garden Centres of Excellence’ Our Chief Executive, Peter Burks, says: “We had a…
Our best garden centres announced at 2025 conference Garden centre teams from across the country are celebrating after receiving awards at our Garden Centre Association’s (GCA) annual conference today (Monday, January 27, 2025). They were presented to the highest scoring member garden centres during a special ceremony at the De Vere Wokefield Estate, Reading. Highest…
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Our member garden centres ended 2024 on ‘a nice positive note’ Our members’ latest Barometer of Trade (BoT) figures show December was up 3.75% when compared to 2023 and the year was at + 3.26%. The results recorded by GCA garden centres for the month showed, when likened to December 2023, 10 of the 13…