We are delighted to announce that we are partnering with Robert Dyas for a fourth year on the high street retailer’s campaign, Plant & Pause.
The successful initiative focuses on the benefits of utilising your outdoor space to promote good mental health and wellbeing, or simply to add a little joy to your day. It begins on Tuesday 17th March and runs until Friday 29th May. People will be encouraged to ‘#GrowYourOwnHappy’ as they join Robert Dyas and us in sowing pots of optimism for better wellbeing.
As part of Plant & Pause, the nationwide Nominate Your Space competition, which ran the previous two years, will run again throughout the whole campaign (17th March - 29th May). The prize on offer is £2,500 worth of garden equipment for the winner to transform their green space into an area that benefits the local community. This year’s prizes include a Forest Garden summerhouse and a VegTrug planters bundle, to name just a couple.
The competition will also include a new category this year: Best Rewilding Space. Robert Dyas will be encouraging nominations of spaces that have the potential to be transformed for the benefit of the natural world, with a prize bundle to help the space evolve.
Whether it’s a community garden or space, or a charity looking to create a sensory or biodiverse garden, entrants are encouraged to visit the Plant & Pause campaign page for full details including how to enter. Shortlisted entries will be assessed by the retailer’s esteemed panel of judges, including: Marketing Manager at Robert Dyas and spearhead of Plant & Pause, Donna Jackson; Thrive’s Training & Education Officer, Mark Emery; The Sun’s gardening columnist Veronica Lorraine; and Urban Living Expert on the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2025, Jason Williams, AKA the Cloud Gardener.
Our Training & Education Officer, Mark Emery, says: “In our gardens at Thrive we see how gardening and nature transforms people’s health - physically, mentally and socially. The Plant & Pause campaign and the Nominate Your Space competition will bring wellbeing benefits to the community, and we are pleased to be a partner.”