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Heavy Plant Crossing – Sales boom this spring at British Garden Centres
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Taylors plant a tree for every employee as part of The Queen’s Green Canopy – “Plant a tree for the Jubilee”
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Spear and Jackson announces partnership with leading influencer
Awards success at Notcutts in 125th anniversary year
Message from Sue Allen, Chairman of Greenfingers Charity
Great industry response to Garden ReLeaf Day
AMES UK experience the value of volunteering
Zest tackles Manchester Marathon to support heart charity
GIMA Digest Spring 2022 Edition On-Line now
OMC calls for improved communication from Government ahead of 1 July Border Control Point introduction
HTA awards Pearson Memorial Medal to West Cowick garden designer, Mark Gregory
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As sales heat up, Char-Broil promotes high-performing sales manager
Core gardening lines dominate sales
Bumper year ahead for grow your own tomatoes
Registration for stands at the PLANTARIUM|GROEN-Direkt fair now open
Growing activity – 25% up
Keukenhof opens again
Wild Bird Care gets competitive
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Planning permission granted for £10m Dobbies store
Garden Re-Leaf Day gets the season off to a sunny start
Horticulture industry responds to Defra consultation on ending retail sale of peat
Garden centre cafe brings nature indoors with Mosswall made from living lichen
GTN’s Greatest Christmas Award winners revealed
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Message from Sue Allen, Chairman of Greenfingers Charity

First, as Chairman of Greenfingers, I would like to give huge thanks to all those who did so much to support our recent Garden Re-Leaf Day. 

 

After the last few difficult years, it was great that the sponsored walk and cycle-ride could take place in reality and that so many companies and individuals did their utmost to raise funds in all sorts of imaginative and fun ways throughout the country. 

 

A special thanks to our small enthusiastic team of staff and volunteers for making all this possible.

 

Primarily I am writing to ask for your help. We need to recruit a Garden Project Manager to oversee all those magical gardens we plan to create for Children’s Hospices later this year and in the years ahead.  As we continue to catch up with our building programme post Covid and develop a new make-over scheme for existing Greenfingers gardens, this really is an exciting time to join the charity and develop this role.

 

This is potentially a full-time position, although it could be on a job-share basis.  It involves travelling around the UK to visit hospices before, during and after the builds and would require patience and understanding when liaising with the hospices, designers, landscapers, suppliers and the Board of Trustees. 

 

We work with some of the best garden designers in the country, so an understanding of design principals together with the use of relevant IT is useful, but practical knowledge of plants, materials and building techniques with a sprinkling of common sense and the ability to resolve issues are invaluable.

 

This is a salaried role with all the usual employment benefits, working within our dedicated team.  If you, or anyone you know would like to know more, please contact Sally Jenkins, our Director of Finance and Resources by emailing: Sally@greenfingerscharity.org.uk.

 

If I was a good few years younger I would relish such an opportunity! 

 

Thank you so much for your continued support of our valuable work,

 

Sue Allen 

Chairman Greenfingers

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