Devon-based country store group Mole Avon has taken delivery of 22 pallets of Growise and Vital Earth growing media, its prize in a competition run by Bord na Móna UK at Glee last autumn.

The store will donate half of the sales proceeds to their local Hospiscare charity.

From its three retail outlets, Town & Country Stores at Station Yard in Axminster, Mill Street in Crediton and Exeter Road in Okehampton, Mole Avon will be selling the prize in a series of special offers: 56L Multi-Purpose Compost at 3 for £12, 50L Organic Garden Compost at 4 for £10, Growing Bag at £2.50 and 100L Landscape Mini Chip Bark  at £6.95.

Competition entrants were asked to guess the tonnage of garden waste used in one year to make its peat-free and peat-reduced growing media and soil improvers. The 1200 bags of product were won by Paul Leach, retail sales manager of the Crediton branch.  His colleague, Steven explained: “We raised over £46,000 for Hospiscare as part of our Ruby Appeal, to celebrate 40 years as a limited company and it would be great to add to that total.”.

Pictured above (left to right): Jason Pike, national sales manager, and Claire Ball, business development manager of Bord Na Móna UK, Paul Leach, from Mole Avon, Richard Cousins, Hospiscare corporate relationships manager and Wendy Stevens, Mole Avon store manager.

Hospiscare needs to raise more than £4m each year to provide free of charge services to people with life-limiting illnesses in Exeter, Mid and East Devon.