LOFA

A big thank you to LOFA (Leisure Outdoor Furniture Association) council who nominated Greenfingers to receive £5,000 to continue to help create more gardens at children’s hospices this coming year

 

LOFA website

 

 

 

GLEE

Every year GLEE supports a variety of fundraising initiatives to help our cause, this year included a trolley of booze raffle which was a huge success and raised over £1600! GLEE also entered a boat in this year's annual Greenfingers Dragonboat race.

 

 GLEE website

 

 

GIMA

The Association's basic objective is to promote and protect the commercial, trading and industrial interests of UK and EU based companies supplying the UK garden industry. GIMA's enthusiastic team, lead by Neil Gow, have supported Greenfingers over a number of years with raffles, collections etc. This year their support has been through the first ever GIMA/Greenfingers Golf Day on 9th June 2010 and donations from their annual Awards dinner raising over £10,000.

 

GIMA website

 

 

Garden Media Guild

An association of writers, journalists and broadcasters, who have always been very supportive of our activities, both through the Garden Press Day held in conjunction with the RHS in February, and through their Annual Awards Lunch in November.

 

Garden Media Guild website

 

 

The Garden Centre Association

Over 160 leading garden centres belong to the Garden Centre Association. Our members cover all parts of the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland and each one has to achieve a high level of good business practice before they can be accepted as an Approved Member and to ensure that high standards are maintained, each garden centre is inspected annually. This year we are particularly grateful of their support when our raffle envelopes failed to arrive, they stepped into the breach and organised a special fundraising tote which raised £1,000.

 

The Garden Centre Association website

 

 

British Association of Landscape Industries

The British Association of Landscape Industries (BALI) is the UK’s representative trade association for firms undertaking landscaping, both interior and exterior, a wide range of associated suppliers to the industry. With a Landscape contracting membership of over 700, BALI is continually raising standards throughout an industry that is all too often tarred with a ‘cowboy’ reputation. BALI has made Greenfingers their Charity of the Year, raising money through raffles and dinners and the sponsorship of its Chairman, Richard Gardiner in a various sponsored challenge events – this year the Three Peaks Challenge!

 

British Association of Landscape Industries website

 

The Horticultural Trades Association

The Horticultural Trades Association is run by the garden industry for the garden industry. We're dedicated to growing business for garden centres, nurseries, landscapers and suppliers. From 2007 until 2009, the HTA took over the administration of Greenfingers Charity, leaving the committee members to concentrate on implementing gardens and raising funds. Horticulture Trade Association supported Greenfingers during a time of change and development and supported the charity through this period and beyond in a variety of ways.

The Horticultural Trades Association website