Arena Flowers were excited about being shortlisted for the Mayor’s Responsible Procurement Awards in December 2010. We had a great evening at City Hall and thought we’d take a moment to tell you about it. What are the Responsible Procurement Awards? The Responsible Procurement awards themselves are there to recognise contributions made by suppliers to and [...]
Filed under: Ethics & Environment, Good Causes & Charities on January 12th, 2011 | 2 Comments »
We’ve been pretty quiet on the blog recently. Don’t worry, we’re still here and up to lots of things as usual but there was one thing we’ve been getting involved in and I wanted to give it a bit of a thumbs up here on the blog. Friendship Works is a registered charity in the [...]
Filed under: Ethics & Environment, Good Causes & Charities on November 5th, 2010 | No Comments »
As you’ll know from our announcement earlier this year, we’ve been working very closely with the British Heart Foundation (BHF) to get their branded charity flowers website off the ground. But our association with the nation’s heart health charity goes back to the early days of Arena Flowers, as we’ve always been happy to help [...]
Filed under: Ethics & Environment, Flowers, General, Good Causes & Charities, Mega Days, Valentine's Day on December 29th, 2009 | No Comments »
A few months ago, Stan had posted a blog on how Arena Flowers is encouraging people to raise money for Cancer Research by sending out flyers for the Race For Life charity event along with all Cancer Research flower orders. Little did we know then, that we had an in-house participant in Carole, our Accountant [...]
Filed under: Ethics & Environment, Good Causes & Charities on September 23rd, 2009 | No Comments »
It’s been a while since our last blog post while we’ve been working frantically on a whole bunch of exciting new partnership projects behind the scenes – all to be revealed in the coming few weeks. But one such partnership deserves a blog post of it’s own, as we’re proud to announce a new charity [...]
Filed under: Ethics & Environment, General, Good Causes & Charities on August 27th, 2009 | No Comments »
Regular readers of Flowers …uncut will already be well aware of our occasional support of charities and good causes as well as the launch of the Arena-powered Cancer Research UK flower shop earlier this year. Cancer Research UK and flowers make a great fit, especially around Mother’s Day and the “Race For Life” (we’re currently [...]
Filed under: Ethics & Environment, General, Good Causes & Charities on May 29th, 2009 | No Comments »
If you’ve missed Valentine’s Day and forgot to send flowers from our exclusive Valentine’s range, here’s another chance to heal hearts; by supporting British Heart Foundation’s “Red for Heart” Campaign. After all, February is not just a month of romantic messages, but also the National Heart Month. Like last year, when we did the BHF [...]
Filed under: Ethics & Environment, Good Causes & Charities, Mega Days, Valentine's Day on February 25th, 2009 | 1 Comment »
As trailed a little while ago in our New Year’s resolutions post, I’m pleased to announce that we went live with a new website yesterday, in partnership with Cancer Research UK, the UK’s leading cancer research charity. The website, the Cancer Research Flower Shop, allows flower lovers to send all of our flowers and make [...]
Filed under: Ethics & Environment, Good Causes & Charities on January 20th, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Getting hitched in the chilly months of winter doesn’t mean that you need to compromise on your winter wedding flowers. Although relatively rare compared to summer weddings, winter ceremonies can indeed benefit from all the sparkle and glamour of the party season, with family and friends close to hand for the festive period. Wedding planners [...]
Filed under: Christmas Flowers, Customers, Ethics & Environment, Floristry, Flowers, Setting up, Weddings on January 9th, 2009 | 15 Comments »
Happy New Year to everyone! We’ve been a bit quiet on the blog of late, what with having to get all our Christmas flower deliveries sorted and having to do some very very last minute Christmas shopping of our own too. We’re back in the saddle now, looking forward to 2009 and will be posting [...]
Filed under: Customers, Ethics & Environment, Finance & Investment, General, Good Causes & Charities, International Flowers, Mega Days, Operations, Valentine's Day on January 5th, 2009 | No Comments »
