Our member garden centres will be able to find
out how they’ve have fared in this year’s annual inspections at regional award
meetings taking place across the country this month (July, 2015).
The meetings
will take place on July 20, 21, 22, 23 and 24 and teams are invited to attend
the event in their area and take along as many staff as they wish.
During the annual meetings inspectors for each area will announce
their findings, highlighting best practice and new ideas and will also reveal
the category winners.
The first regional award meeting for the North Thames area will
take place at Perrywood Garden Centre & Nurseries in Inworth, Tiptree on
Monday, July 20 from 3.30pm with inspector Liz Hutson presenting her findings.
Stratford Garden Centre in Clifford Chambers, Stratford-Upon-Avon,
will host the Midlands regional award meeting on Tuesday, July 21 from 5pm. The
inspector announcing the results will be Ian Boardman.
The regional award meeting for the South Thames area will take
place at Haskins Garden Centre in West End, Southampton on Wednesday, July 22 from 4pm with inspector Andy Campbell in attendance.
The Wales and West regional meeting will be held at Monkton Elm
Garden & Pet Centre at Monkton Heathfield, near Taunton in Somerset on
Thursday, July 23 from 5pm. The inspector attending will be Ian Boardman.
Roger Crookes will be the inspector presiding over the North
West/North East region’s award meeting on Friday, July 24 at Bents Garden &
Home in Glazebury, Warrington.
A final regional awards meeting will take place later on in the
year on Wednesday, September 23 for the Scotland/Northern Ireland area. This
will be held at Glendoick Gardens Ltd in Glencarse, Perth with inspector Liz
Hutson.
We have been holding our annual inspections at our member garden
centres since March.
Many of our members praise the inspections and say they are a
unique way of keeping staff on their toes and always making sure they do their
best.
We are really looking forward
to the annual awards meetings and we wish everyone the best of luck as the
results from the inspections form the basis for many of our GCA awards, which
will be presented at next year’s conference.
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