We’re pleased to be supporting our local community magazine – The Chipping Campden Bulletin. Here is the March “Garden Notes” column.
The First “Garden Notes” column from TOPS Plants!
We’re pleased to be supporting our local community magazine – The Chipping Campden Bulletin. Here is the first of our “Garden Notes” columns.
TOPS Plants supporting Campden Home Nursing.
The Great Poinsettia Sale is tomorrow – Monday 23rd – at TOPS Plants, Mickleton – we’re open 9am til 4pm.
Every Poinsettia is a bargain £1 and all of the £1 will go to Campden Home Nursing – one of our great local charities. Our Poinsettias are homegrown in Mickleton and they are medium to small size, with a choice of colours … so ideal for putting on a table or window sill. The Poinsettias and the Collection tin are ready!
To read more about their great work, please visit: www.campdenhomenursing.org
Thank you for those pennies!
They do add up – and we’re pleased to pass them on to our local charities!
Those pennies do add up!
Those pennies do add up!
Thank you to all who donate their little bits of change in to one of our charity tins. Shakespeare Hospice – a very worthwhile local charity.
TOPS Christmas Lights Night raises £1800 for three local charities!
TOPS Plants of Mickleton are delighted to announce that we raised £1747 at our Christmas Lights Charity event.
We’ve rounded this sum up to £1800 so that we can give £600 each to three very worthwhile local charities – Campden Home Nursing; Shakespeare Hospice and Midlands Air Ambulance.
All of these charities rely on donations to continue delivering their incredibly valued services to local people.
We would like to thank all who supported the event; sponsored lights in memory of loved ones; donated raffle prizes and those who decorated the Christmas trees on behalf of local organisations.
Special mention must be made to Barry & Anne Metcalfe, Glyn Jones and John Garton for their support and advice; Gladys Allman who raised £350 with the raffle; Gary Holland for photography; Bob at Decades Tearoom; the Hedgehog minibus drivers for ferrying visitors to and from the village and our team at TOPS for going well beyond the call of duty!
Finally all printing and publicity material was sponsored by Vale Press Ltd of Willersey.
Remembering a Good Friend
Many local people will remember Alan “Lumpy” Batchelor from Honeybourne. Lumpy would have been the first to admit he had a few faults but he was a good friend to TOPS Plants and many others. In wishing to remember him we have donated a wooden bench in his memory and it’s now in position not far from the shop on the Stratford Road in Honeybourne, opposite the road to the church.
TOPS Plants supporting Helicopter Heroes of Midlands Air Ambulance!
TOPS Plants were delighted to recently hand over a cheque for £200 to Midlands Air Ambulance Charity.
TOPS Farmshop manager, Carol, hands over our “big cheque” to Michelle of Midlands Air Ambulance.
If you see a red air ambulance flying over the North Cotswolds then it’s probably a “Midlands Air Ambulance”.
Midlands Air Ambulance is the charity responsible for funding and operating three air ambulances serving the communities of six Midlands counties: Gloucestershire, Worcestershire, Herefordshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire and the West Midlands.
This constitutes the largest air ambulance operating region in the UK.
Since 1991, the charity has responded to more than 49,000 missions averaging 2,000 per year, making it one of the longest established and busiest air ambulance organisations in the UK.
Midlands Air Ambulance receives no Government or National Lottery funding.
Each Midlands Air Ambulance mission costs £2,500 and in excess of £9 million is needed each year to keep its three air ambulances operational, which is donated entirely by the public and local businesses.
That’s why donations and fundraising are so essential and why TOPS Plants is delighted to have passed on the proceeds of a “windfall” sale of Christmas Trees sold for mulching in the new year!
For more information visit their website: www.midlandsairambulance.com
Why not buy your plants locally too from TOPS Plants and see your community benefit even more. TOPS Plants, Broadway Road, Mickleton, Chipping Campden, GL55 6PT
TOPS Plants help to start Indoor Gardening Club.
TOPS Plants were very pleased to help Paul Dixon of Mill House Care Home in Chipping Campden to get his lovely idea off the ground – an “Indoor Gardening Club” for his residents.
Paul wrote: “Thank you to the wonderful Tops, the Mill House Garden club has now had its first meeting. Snowdrops, tulips and soil have all been planted in pots for the residents bedrooms. Thank you.”
David Stowe of TOPS says: “We look forward to seeing updates from the club as the bulbs grow over the next few weeks and hope they help to give the residents an “early Spring”!
Please consider buying your plants locally from TOPS Plants and see our local communities benefit even more.
TOPS Plants, Broadway Road, Mickleton, Glos. GL55 6PT
For further information on Mill House Care Home please visit:
https://www.caringhomes.org/find-a-home/mill-house-in-chipping-campden/
Recognising the Heroes of our Blue Light services and Armed Forces.
TOPS Plants are pleased to recognise the vital role of our local blue light services and armed forces. We are now registered with BLUE LIGHT CARD and DEFENCE discount cards.
Those who work for any blue light services – fire/ambulance/police/NHS, etc or in our Armed Forces can apply for card. https://www.bluelightcard.co.uk
At TOPS Plants simply present a Blue Light Card or Defence Discount Card at our Farmshop till and you will be eligible for a 10% discount* | 5% on coal & logs.
* Online purchases not eligible.
TOPS Plants, Broadway Road, Mickleton, Glos. GL55 6PT
TOPS in the community 