charity

each year we look for new charities or good causes/community initiatives to get involved with.

this is aside from our ongoing tropical plant donations to chester zoo, whom we’ve supported for almost twenty years.

the north of england zoological society (nezs) the parent company of chester zoo, are committed to ensuring the well-being and protection of endangered wildlife and we are committed to helping them with their endeavours, so any suitable live plants and trees that are returned to our nursery (post project), are donated to chester zoo.

this goes some way to helping them restock enclosures and replicate the animals’ natural habitat.

local community charities and initiatives

In 2023 we ran a spring planting workshop to spruce up our local town centre shopping centre in altrincham.

we also supported community charity, An Hour for Others in liverpool where we donated plants to brighten up the courtyard at their community hub base.

the charity seeks to harness the power of the wider community and local businesses to simply give their time, expertise or resources for the good of those less fortunate.

later in the year, we helped a homeless charity in manchester called The Booth Centre  who originally put out a request on social media for any unwanted mugs, to ensure they always had spare to offer hot drinks to any homeless visitors to the centre.

our team were quick to respond and shortly afterwards we dropped two packed boxes of mugs off at the centre – closely followed a couple of weeks later, by some plants donations for both their community lounge and also for the centre’s greatest pride, their community garden.

helping good causes with these smaller gestures, means we have the capacity to help more.

main annual charity

each year, we also select a larger charity to support with a one-off event.

in the past, it’s been christmas jumper day for save the children and last year it was a push-up challenge for Cancer research uk where we raised just short of £1500.00!

they’re always fun events that the whole team can get on board with in order for us to raise as many funds as possible.

2024

Plant donations have been happening throughout the year.

Check out our what’s new page to read more about some of them including our plants-drop at Manchester Academy School (above) in early September.

And our Directors, Richard and Jessica have already donated their time to Manchester Toy Appeal helping to sort gift parcels for less fortunate children.

2025

We’ve been donating more plants already this year including charity plant raffle prizes, plants to Chester Zoo and to OddArts, a community initiative which uses theatre to challenge inequalities & increase opportunities for people facing the greatest level of discrimination & disadvantage.

June: We also received an enquiry from a member of the staff team at Middleton Technology School in Rochdale who were looking for plant donations for their SEN department.

A balcony area needed some green enhancements to help create a peaceful and educational space to teach teenagers with significant emotional and intellectual needs, how to care for nature.

A couple of weeks later our potted plant donations were loaded into a car and on their way to their new home and it was lovely to receive an update this week to let us know they were already being appreciated.

know of a good cause or charity we should support?

We particularly like supporting charities close to our HQ, so if you know of a space which might benefit from a splash of natural green and it’s based in the North West, please do get in touch and tell us all about it.