Our Garden Retail Online Workshops (GROW) e-Learning platform was presented with a ‘Highly Commended’ at the recent Totara Awards (April 2024). GROW received the accolade in the ‘Best Extended Enterprise Solution’ category and was given a special mention during the awards ceremony too. ‘Extremely proud’ GROW’s Instructional Designer, Antony Snow says: “These awards recognise the…
Our Garden Retail Online Workshops (GROW) e-Learning platform has launched five new online compliance-based courses covering health and safety this month (March 2024). This batch is the second of three releases across this subject, which will see sixteen e-Learning courses in total on various food safety and health and safety topics added to GROW. Five…
We’re urging members to get their 2024 Rising Stars nominations in by March 1 to help showcase and develop our industry’s most talented individuals this year. Our Westland Horticulture sponsored programme offers those who participate the chance to be mentored by experts in the horticultural industry. What makes a Rising Star? GCA Inspector and Rising…
When Haydon Walters from British Garden Centres’ Thatcham Garden Centre was crowned the winner of our 2023 Westland Horticulture sponsored Rising Stars recently applications also opened for this year’s programme too (2024). Haydon was declared the winner after his presentation was voted the best by delegates during our annual conference in the Cotswolds (January 29).…
Five individuals from our member garden centres have reached the finals of our Rising Stars programme sponsored by Westland Horticulture. The staff were put forward by their centres and took part in a series of workshops this year. Our inspector, Gordon Emslie, who mentored the workshops, said: “I’d like to say a huge ‘congratulations’ to our finalists:…