Alan Sheppard  Burgon Ball        

Alistair Jackson  Poplars Garden Centre  https://www.justgiving.com/Alastair-Jackson3/

Anisha Modi       i2i Events             https://www.justgiving.com/gleethameswalk/

Anne Clark          HTA        https://www.justgiving.com/Anne-Clark8/

Ayse Bhehet      i2i Events             https://www.justgiving.com/gleethameswalk/

Carol Andrews  HTA       

Carol Paris with Max & Murphy    HTA       

Chris Houfe        Great BritishCards          

Chris Ramsden  Suttons               

Craig Hall     Decopak              https://www.justgiving.com/Craig-Hall11/

Emma Clark        HTA        https://www.justgiving.com/Emma-Clark24/

Emma Ley           HTA       

Gregor Muir       Datateam Media              https://www.justgiving.com/Gregor-Muir1/

Jackie Eades       Briers Ltd             https://www.justgiving.com/briersltd/

Kimberley Hornby      Whitefoot PR     https://www.justgiving.com/KIMBERLEY-HORNBY/

Liz Littleboy        HTA       

Mark Long           Paperhouse      

Martin Simmons           HTA       

Matthew Mein     i2i Events             https://www.justgiving.com/gleethameswalk/

Monique Grima                i2i Events             https://www.justgiving.com/gleethameswalk/

Paul Basham      HTA        https://www.justgiving.com/Paul-Basham2/

Raoul Machin     HTA       

Richard Pyrah    Kelkay  

Robbie Cumming         Whitefoot PR     https://www.justgiving.com/RobbieCumming/

Sophia Ibrahim      i2i Events             https://www.justgiving.com/gleethameswalk/

Tim Bell             HTA       

Triston Sisson    Briers Ltd            

Vicky Nuttal        GIMA    https://www.justgiving.com/V-NUTTALL/

With a raffle that they are drawing at lunchtime today we will bring you the total raised at Bostworths in GTN Xtra over the weekend.

The Prime Minister's personal chef at Chequers has made a special Easter Egg to be auctioned on Garden Re-Leaf Day next Friday, with all the proceeds going to the Greenfingers charity.

Graham Howarth, who is Executive Chef at Chequers in Buckinghamshire, is a friend of Greenfingers' Head of Fundraising Linda Petrons, and donated the Easter Egg for Garden Re-Leaf.

Graham lives on the Chequers estate where he has worked for over 12 years.



If you would like to bid for the Easter Egg email info@greenfingerscharity.org.uk

The Briers Greenfingers Gloves are already rasing plenty of money for Garden Re-Leaf Day – they are this week's highest new entry in the GTN Garden Products Chart at number 13!  

See this weekend's GTN Xtra for more GTN Bestsellers information, or take out an annual subscription to see the GTN Bestsellers charts in full every week.  Contact harry.sinclair@tgcmc.co.uk to subscribe.

To find out more about Garden Re-Leaf Day and how you can join in call the Greenfingers team on 01494 674749 or visit www.greenfingerscharity.org.uk

The Briers Greenfingers Gloves and the #Glovie world record attempt is one of the easiest ways to get an extra crowd into your centre at 11:00am on Friday 27^th so you should start promoting that now.  

If you would like supplies of the Briers Greenfingers Glovies which raise money for Greenfingers with every sale you should contact sales@briersltd.co.uk or call 01963 269077.

Our Client is an established Landscape and Grounds Maintenance company who are seeking a driven director to work closely with the senior management team and the board to bring clear leadership, reinforcement of current management structure, drive performance and bring sustainable profit to the business while providing customers with a top rate service. 

They are seeking a motivated leader with a proven track record at senior management level. Someone who is capable of ensuring that their dedicated teams are delivering high standards of work and also profit. Someone who is capable of seeing the big picture and steering the company to achieve excellence in all areas while also being able to appreciate the smaller details of landscape management. Knowledge or experience in either the Landscape, Grounds Maintenance, Facilities Management or Construction sectors are essential for this role. 

To find out more please submit your CV in the first instance to info@morepeople.co.uk quoting the reference #DS7138

My client is a small garden centre group based in the south east of England, they are established in their market and are now looking to recruit a new senior leader to the team. 

This role will have oversight of all the groups centres as well as having day to day managerial responsibilities for the groups largest site. 

We need:

• An Experienced retail manager with a minimum of 2 years as a large turnover site manager.
• A superb retailer with an eye for quality who continually upholds high standards of merchandising and customer service.
• A commercially minded business professional who can look after the day to day HR, finance and supply tasks associated with the role.
• A forward thinking planner who can use the seasonality associated with the market to produce outstanding events to ensure top performance during peak times.
• A Garden Centre Expert who knows the industry back to front and can exploit and build on market trends.

We would prefer:

• Candidates with experience in a regional or multisite management role.
• Candidates with a positive can do attitude that lead by example.
• Candidates looking for a long term project where they can commit themselves to a business and develop with the role.

For a confidential discussion, please call Brad Peck at MorePeople on 01780 480530 quoting reference #BP7174

Our client is a wholesale bedding plant Nursery operating from two sites who supply to the main Garden Centre Chains and Independent Garden Centres across the UK. They are looking for a skilled grower with excellent supervisory skills to assist and help with the day to day running of the Nursery. Working and supporting the Nursery Owner this will be based at their Evesham site. 

Ideally they are looking for someone with experience and the ability to supervise 10 -15 nursery workers and help organise and work to agreed time scales. 

Experience of the bedding plant industry would be an advantage also there are good long term prospects as the successful candidate could be considered to manage the site on their own in the future.

To find out more please submit your CV in the first instance to info@morepeople.co.uk quoting the reference #DS7164

My client is a small garden centre group based in the south east of England, they are established in their market and are now looking to recruit a new Garden Centre Manager for one of their established centres. 

We need:

• An Experienced retail manager with at least 3 years at deputy manager experience.
• A driven individual who is committed to increasing the productivity and turnover of their site.
• A leader who creates opportunities through effective motivation of their team.
• A individual with a background in an retailer that sells within a market that is effected by seasonality.

We would prefer:

• An experienced garden centre manager looking for a new challenge.
• A forward thinking retail with very high standards for merchandising and customer service.

For a confidential discussion, please call Brad Peck at MorePeople on 01780 480530 quoting reference #BP7175

It's garden re-Leaf Day today and the fun, fundraising and publicity has already started.

A number of garden centres held Garden Re-Leaf Day Quiz nights yesterday with more taking place today and over the weekend.  The Thames Walk is well underway and many, many other events are taking places in garden centers across the country.

Boyd Douglas-Davies, one of the founders of Garden Re-Leaf Day said last night "the number of centres, suppliers and individuals taking part in Garden Re-Leaf Day 2015 is superb. Having had a cool March it couldn't come at a better time to kick start the season."

"Garden Re-Leaf Day 2015 has already had 6 hours of TV exposure this week and numerous regional and local stories in the press."

"And across Hi‎llview centres we will at long last answer the age old question... "HOW LONG IS A PIECE OF STRING?"!

"One industry, one event, one huge result!"

What are you doing for Garden Re-Leaf Day - make the most of it, it is our gardening chartity and awareness day.  Please send photos and infomration about your activities and we will publish them all in GTN Xtra over the weekend and next week.  Send to: trevor.pfeiffer@tgcmc.co.uk

Boyd told GTN Xtra; "I have managed to go through the whole conference without really highlighting Briers support for the Glovies campaign. If it hadn't been for the beer they bought me last November the idea would never have been born!"

Every week GTN receives and analyses epos data from a number of UK garden centres to produce the GTN Bestsellers charts and weekly bestsellers sales tips.

The full charts which provide useful insight into product sales peaks, new trends and new link sales opportunities are published in the weekly GTN Xtra printed newsletter.

As the year goes on we give sales volume comparisons with 2012 as well as 2013 to allow your teams to see variations over a three year period.

Access is by subscription only.  For £145.00 per year you and your team can have access to the most up-to-date gardening sales analysis that has already helped many UK garden centres increase their sales.  To subscribe call 01733 775700, e-mail karen.pfeiffer@tgcmc.co.uk or buy on-line using this link.

Highlights of the GTN Garden Products Bestsellers chart for this week are here

Highlights of the GTN Veg-2-Gro Products Bestsellers chart for this week are here

Highlights of the GTN Growing Media Bestsellers chart for this week are here

WARNING the GTN Bestsellers Charts seriously improve the business of our subscribers.  Invest 15 minutes each week in improving your sales using the GTN Bestsellers charts and your turnover and customer satisfaction will improve too.