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08/05/2026

✨ GCA MEMBERS WEBINAR INVITATION ✨

Join us for an inspiring webinar to meet Louis Kennedy, our new Associate Members and leaders in ‘Partnerships with Purpose’.

Discover how Louis Kennedy brings retailers, charities and much loved character products together to create meaningful campaigns that truly make a difference.

🎅 Because it’s never too early for the C-word at garden centres - discover how to deliver the magic of Secret Santa!

Learn about an exclusive festive campaign that:

• Engages staff and customers
• Adds extra magic to your garden centre
• Helps give children a Christmas they otherwise wouldn’t have

🗓 Thursday, May 21

⏰ 3pm

🎄 “Add even more magic dust to the festive season at your garden centres with a campaign guaranteed to delight customers and teams alike.”

✅ This event is FREE to GCA garden centre members.

📩 To receive the webinar link, please email [email protected]

We look forward to seeing you there!

Louis Kennedy

08/05/2026

08/05/2026

🌱🌼 NEXT SATURDAY, May 16, 2026, it’s our Charity Plant Sale in aid of Communicare in Southampton. 💙

🪴🌸 Pop in between 10am and 12pm and pick up a new plant for your home or garden. All money raised will help support the amazing work Communicare in Southampton does in our community.

If you have a plant or two to donate, please drop them off on the day from 8.30am at 21 St James Road, Shirley, Southampton.

For more information, visit our website – the link is also in our bio 🔗

www.communibakes.co.uk/2026/04/01/calling-all-plant-lovers/

08/05/2026

💙🥐 Shop with purpose, shop with us! 🥐💙

When you shop here, you’re doing more than treating yourself to freshly baked bread, cakes, and coffee – you’re helping support Communicare and the vital work the charity does here in our neighbourhood and across Southampton. 🌍🤝

Every purchase we make helps tackle loneliness and isolation in our community, so your loaf, coffee, or traybake really does make a difference. It’s baking that gives back. 🍞✨

Pop in, spread the word, and feel good about every bite.

Find out more about us and what we do here: www.communibakes.co.uk/ - link also in our bio.



Communicare in Southampton

08/05/2026

⏰ DEADLINE THIS MONDAY – DON’T MISS OUT! ⏰

There’s still time to apply, but the deadline for applications is soon. Southampton Mental Health Network is looking for a skilled and caring Administrator to join the team.

💻 Are you great with communication and IT?
🤝 Do you enjoy working with a wide range of people?
💙 Do you want to support mental health work across the city?

This is a 30 hour per week role (negotiable), paid at £12.75 per hour, on an initial one year fixed term contract. You’ll play a key role in supporting our meetings, communications, events, and our lived experience group, SMILE.

🗓 Application deadline: next Monday (at noon)
🗓 Interviews: Tuesday, May 19, 2026

👉 Find out more and apply here:

www.communicareinsouthampton.org.uk/southampton-mental-health-network-is-recruiting/

(website link also in bio)

Please share with friends, family, or colleagues who might be interested and help us spread the word before the deadline! 💬

08/05/2026

📢 We’ve lots of wonderful baked items, ready for you to buy and enjoy, subject to availability. Plus, with every item you take home, you’ll be supporting the work of the charity Communicare in Southampton in our community. We’re OPEN TODAY, Friday until 3pm.

22/04/2026

Proudly grown, crafted, and bottled in Herefordshire.

Our wines reflect the landscape, the climate, and decades of care. Taste the difference of truly local wine. www.foxburyfields.co.uk/store 🌿

10/04/2026

📣 Southampton businesses, charities & community groups – WE NEED YOU!

We’re creating a citywide online guide packed with social activities, events, and support services to help people feel more connected and you can be part of it.

If you offer any of the following, we’d love to feature you:

✅ Community lunches or shared meals
✅ Outdoor activities, walks, or social meetups
✅ Listening or support services
✅ Any initiative that helps boost social connectedness

By adding your details, you’ll help people:

✔ Search by postcode to find what’s happening near them
✔ Discover new opportunities to connect and feel supported
✔ Become part of a shared effort to strengthen mental health and social connectedness across Southampton

💻 Submit your info: https://tinyurl.com/tv4xy4eh
📧 Or email Chloe: [email protected]

🌟 Together, let’s make Southampton a place where positive mental health – and community connection – truly thrive.

Photo taken with thanks to Tim Kenyon Photography and Mayfield Garden Centre.

10/04/2026

🎶 GIG ALERT for The Hood Arms, Kilve! 🎶

Really looking forward to playing at the brilliant Hood Arms in Kilve on April 24, 8-11pm. It’s one of those proper Somerset pubs with a lovely atmosphere and great people.

I’ll be bringing my guitar and a night of laid back, live acoustic music: classics, modern favourites and a few rarely heard gems thrown in for good measure.

If you fancy some great food, good company and music played from the heart, it’d be lovely to SEE YOU THERE. 🍻🎵

👉 More details here, website link also in bio:

https://andydoranmusic.co.uk/event/the-hood-arms-kilve/

10/04/2026

🌿 Bird friendly hedging starts here – GET YOUR FREE GUIDE! 🐦

Hedges are more than boundaries – they’re vital habitats for birds, insects and wildlife. That’s why we’re encouraging gardeners, landscapers, local authorities and landowners to plant native, biodiversity boosting hedging this spring.

With nearly a century of horticultural expertise, we’ve created a free, easy to use online guide packed with advice on choosing native species, planting bareroot hedging and managing hedges for wildlife.

Read more on our website news section, website link also in bio: www.wyevalenurseries.co.uk/news-projects/were-offering-free-expert-advice-on-boosting-biodiversity-with-hedging/

🌱 Hawthorn, Blackthorn, Hazel & more
🐦 Food, shelter and nesting spaces
🌍 Stronger wildlife corridors across the UK.

📘 Download the free guide:

www.wyevalenurseries.co.uk/app/uploads/2025/05/Transplants-Booklet-Complete-LR.pdf

🛒 Not a commercial, large-scale buyer? Buy our hedging online here:
www.wyevalehedges.co.uk

10/04/2026

Do your kids love colouring? 🎨

Our FREE Easter colouring competition is now open!

Collect a colouring sheet instore throughout the Easter holidays or dine in our Café and get one with your meal. We’re very sorry we’re unable to email our sheets.

Closing date: April 19, 2026.

Winners receive a free children’s meal!

Full Ts & Cs on our website, link also in bio: www.rumwellfarmshop.com/easter-colouring-competition-2026/