Dobbies garden centre wants to help Swindon and Wiltshire charities

By Barrie Hudson - 18 June 2021

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Garden centre chain Dobbies has announced the relaunch of its community support initiative Helping Your Community Grow. 

Originally introduced by Dobbies in 2010, and relaunched with a new look and format for 2021, Helping Your Community Grow aims to make local landscapes greener, so that the community can enjoy everything the great outdoors has to offer. 

The initiative will see Dobbies offering products, equipment and support to deserving projects and outdoor spaces in need of a refresh, helping to revitalise the local area surrounding Dobbies’ Swindon store in Hyde Road. 

Graeme Jenkins, CEO of Dobbies, said: “At Dobbies, we are passionate about helping the communities around our stores to thrive. 

"Helping Your Community Grow is a fantastic initiative that will allow our Swindon store and experts to provide advice, equipment, products and support to projects that directly benefit Wiltshire.

“We are looking forward to seeing the applications come in and finding out more about the exciting projects going on across Wiltshire. We want to help make our local landscape a little bit greener, benefit people living in the local area and help boost wellbeing with green spaces and gardening projects.”

Dobbies aims to deliver at least one project for each of its 69 mainline stores across the UK, with each project receiving products and equipment plus advice and support from the Dobbies’ team. 

There will also be opportunities for the Wiltshire community to access small grants from the Swindon Dobbies store, for requests that will brighten up the local area, such as bulbs for a colourful flowerbed, or even a communal Christmas tree to bring a sparkle to the festive season. 

Whether it’s a civic space, school vegetable patch or memorial garden, the community is invited to apply for support from Helping Your Community Grow now via dobbies.com

All submissions will then be sent to the Swindon Dobbies store, to be reviewed and shortlisted by the team. A shortlist of three will be open to a public vote, with the community having the opportunity to vote for a project that is important to them. 

There will be one overall winning project from Wiltshire, plus a national winner chosen from the nationwide shortlist, who will receive further support. 

Eligible projects must benefit a wide group of people in the local community, must be located within 20 miles of a Dobbies store, and must be able to be completed by February 2022. 

For more information visit: https://www.dobbies.com/helping-your-community-grow

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