Mark Friday March 19th, 2021 in your diaries now!
2021 marks a very special occasion for the annual Garden Re-Leaf Day event as this special FUNdraising day (March 19th, 2021) celebrates its 10th anniversary! Looking rather different to previous years as we navigate a new normal, there’s still a whole host of different ways to get involved in this ever-popular charity day that not only kick starts the gardening season but also raises much needed funds for the Greenfingers Charity. Continue reading
New garden spaces for Rainbows Hospice for Children and Young people and Little Harbour Children’s Hospice
The Greenfingers Charity welcomes support from all corners of the garden retail sector, with many retailers and suppliers pulling together to help raise much needed funds. One such supplier is Evergreen Garden Care, which has once again dug deep to help Greenfingers build even more treasured garden spaces at children’s hospices across the country. 
Early this week work officially began on the new Remembrance Garden at Rainbows Hospice for Children and Young People in the East Midlands – the first Greenfingers garden to be created following the easing of the nationwide lockdown. 
Little Havens. the children’s hospice for Essex is offering its Greenfingers garden as well as other areas of their extensive grounds, to families experiencing an exceptional crisis during the Coronavirus pandemic. 
V gardening personality, David Domoney, has recently been confirmed as the Greenfingers Charity’s newest Patron. The role will see David support the charity’s work in building magical and therapeutic gardens for life-limited children in hospices across the country. 
Garden Re-Leaf Day on Friday 13th March may have fallen in the middle of a worldwide pandemic, but that didn’t dampen the FUNdraising spirits of Greenfingers supporters across the country. The official ‘start to the season’ saw businesses and individuals come together to undertake a wide range of activities to help raise much needed funds for the children’s hospice charity. Whilst the final total is yet to be announced, it has been confirmed that over £20,000 has already been pledged. 
With just a few days to go until Garden Re-Leaf Day (13th March), the organisers of the annual fundraising day, Greenfingers Charity, would like to extend their endless thanks to everyone that is supporting this flagship fundraising event and raising vital funds for the children’s hospice charity. 
Every idea has to start somewhere and in the case of the annual Garden Re-Leaf Day Walk it started at a bar where many “great” ideas begin! 
With Garden Re-Leaf Day on the horizon (13th March 2020) now is the perfect time for garden retailers to think about how they’ll be supporting the annual fundraising event. One idea could be to add a dedicated Greenfingers product display at the heart of the store, showcasing all the amazing products that leading garden suppliers have launched to help raise funds for the children’s hospice garden charity. 
Each year we endeavour to be better. It might be eating better, promising to go to bed at a reasonable time, or it might be finding ways to give back to others. Supporting a charity is one way of doing this. Donating to charity not only helps the organisation to achieve its goals’ but it also helps release ‘happy’ endorphins to make you experience that much sought after warm and fuzzy feeling. With Garden Re-Leaf just days away (13th March 2020), why not grab your ‘warm and fuzzy’ by participating in the garden retail industry’s number one fundraising event? 
The 2020 Garden Re-Leaf Sponsored Walk and Cycle Challenge (13th March 2020) is hotting up with several new names signing up to take part in the event, including some fabulous brands supporting with sponsorship. 
(March 13th 2020, Oxfordshire)
To add an exciting sense of competition to this year’s Garden Re-Leaf, Greenfingers Charity has confirmed that there are two tickets to its glittering Charity Summer Ball up for grabs for the garden centre which raises the most over the Garden Re-Leaf weekend (Friday 13th – Sunday 15th March 2020). 
The sixth Garden Re-Leaf Day Sponsored Walk and Cycle Challenge may only be a few weeks away (March 13th 2020) but that doesn’t mean it is too late to join in! Teams and individuals from across the garden retail sector have already confirmed their place at the start-line, and you can too!