The World of Peter Rabbit, at Penguin Random House Children’s, have partnered with National Children’s Gardening Week. With free activity packs available at participating garden centres nationwide during National Children’s Gardening Week (27th May – 4th June 2023), families are encouraged to ‘Grow with Peter Rabbit’ this half term and throughout the summer.

For more information about the Grow with Peter Rabbit initiative, visit www.peterrabbit.com

Lee Connelly, The Skinny Jean Gardener is a gardening podcaster for families and author of ‘How To Get Kids Gardening’. Lee inspires children and families to get out in the garden and enjoy the outdoors! Whilst running one of the foremost gardening podcasts, Lee has also constructed the school gardening success plan which, provides resources and insight for school gardening projects.

Skinny Jean Gardener

Growing Family is a top 10 UK gardening blog. Run by Catherine Hughes, Growing Family has created an activity for Children’s Gardening Week and is donating some prizes. 

Growing Family

The award-winning Willow Wand ® is handcrafted in the UK from 9 living willow stems which are expertly selected by master weavers and woven by hand with great accuracy and skill into a visually stunning, symmetrical ‘Wand’. They have generously donated numerous willow wands for our school competition.

Willow Wand

Wildlife World is the UK’s leading designer and manufacturer of wildlife-friendly products for the garden. They have kindly donated several prizes to National Children’s Gardening Week and have created an activity for our things to section.

Wildlife World

The UK’s brand new, fun, eco-friendly quarterly children’s magazine packed full of facts and activities to keep your child busy, includes a FREE seed growing kit in each issue. My Mini Garden is donating magazines for our NCGW competitions.

My Mini Garden Magazine

Matthew’s a long time supporter of National Children’s Gardening Week having provided ideas from his book The Children’s Garden. It’s full of ideas for fun things to do, and proceeds from the book go to supporting Greenfingers Charity.

The Children’s Garden

Briers extensive kids range aims to inspire, educate and encourage children to get into the garden. The collection coordinates bright fun colours for children to grow and nurture the garden. In addition, their uniquely designed Aidan’s Glove supports Greenfingers charity with a 30p donation for each pair sold.

Briers Garden Products

Brambles are passionate about wildlife. They have produced a range of quality foods that keep wild animals in tip top condition in today’s challenging times. They provide you with helpful tips on what to feed wild animals and how to help them if they’re injured. Brambles collaborated with National Children’s Gardening Week, providing us with activities on how to make a hedgehog house and donating prizes for competitions. 

Brambles Pet and Wildlife 

Life at No27 has published the ‘YOU CAN grow your own food’ written and designed for children of all ages to get them into gardening! The book is full of fun activities and games for kids to do. Their mission is to believe in and empower people through the power of gardening.

Life at No27

National Children’s Gardening Week was the brainwave of Neil Grant. His aim was to inspire children to start growing and help them understand where fruit and vegetables come from – meaning they are more likely to eat them. 

Watch his video

Ambition Creative are the design minds behind our National Children’s Gardening Week brand, website and lovable characters. Long term partners of the HTA, they relished the opportunity to spread the benefits of gardening to future generations through this project. As a business they have a passion for good causes like this one, and are the first creative agency to use sustainably run meetings, which plant a tree for every meeting they have.

Ambition Creative

When the adventure began, there were just 12 of us, It was 1981. Back then the outdoors was about intrepid explorers, but they just wanted to open their front door and have fun. So they made great products that people could afford, clothing to get them outside and enjoying the fresh air without worrying what it would cost. That’s still what counts for them. Still thinking of new ways to help people, still inspired by the great outdoors and still hanging by the front door when you need them. And it’s still what counts for the ramblers, amblers, hikers and bikers, campers, gardeners and puddle-loving children and everyone else we’ve helped start their own adventure. 

 Regatta Great Outdoors

Entertainment One Ltd. (eOne) is a talent-driven independent studio that specializes in the development, acquisition, production, financing, distribution and sales of entertainment content. As part of global play and entertainment company Hasbro, eOne’s expertise spans across film, television and music production and sales; family programming, merchandising and licensing; digital content; and live entertainment. eOne brings to market both original and existing content, sourcing IP from Hasbro’s portfolio of 1500+ brands, and through a diversified network of creative partners and eOne companies.

Entertainment One

Save the Children exists to help every child reach their full potential. In more than 100 countries including the UK, they make sure children stay safe, healthy and learning, and change the future for good. They find new ways to reach children, no matter where they’re growing up. For a century, They’ve stood up for children’s rights and made sure their voices are heard.

Save the Children

JLS singer and children’s television presenter, JB Gill, joined Peppa Pig to support National Children’s Gardening Week. He encouraged families to get down to their local garden centre to collect their Peppa Pig activity booklet, help raise vital funds and start having fun with nature! “We love farming and gardening,” says JB, “so we can’t wait to get outside with Peppa to have some muddy fun! Playing outside and discovering wildlife is so important in helping children develop and grow.”