HTA Annual Review 2019 Promote. Support. Nurture. · Association (HTA). This is the first review with an introduction jointly signed by the President and Chairman and provides an

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HTA Annual Review 2019 Promote. Support. Nurture.

HTA ANNUAL REVIEW 2019

Core Purpose‘We help our industry flourish’Mission Statement‘On behalf of our members we promote, support and nurture our industry to ensure a robust and sustainable future’

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HTA VALUES: COLLABORATION INTEGRITY INNOVATION INFLUENCE

Strategic AmbitionsOur key objective is to ensure our members support and engage with what we do. We will do this by:

1. Supplying our members with the best access to information to assist them in managing and developing their businesses.

We will do this by: • Providing the most up to date market leading data and

analysis, policy and regulatory developments that can impact members’ businesses.

• Delivering the best and most appropriate training, learning and career information to members and their staff.

• Giving access to a first class service partner scheme to help members with additional support.

• Growing a research capability that places us at the forefront of political, socio-economic and environmental issues that face us.

• Developing a more relevant and focused communications policy to support the above.

2. Bringing together people and institutions from across the industry to help foster best practice, innovation and the exchange of ideas and information.

We will do this by: • Growing our membership across all of the horticultural industry. • Further improving and developing our key trade shows and

running events that are targeted at members’ needs. • Working with other industry bodies to collaborate on expertise

and advice, including evolving our collective standards and schemes.

3. Ensuring a collaborative, cooperative and coordinated approach to Government.

We will do this by: • Harnessing the best of our members’ expertise and insights to

communicate a common voice to Government. • Developing relationships with policymakers, key opinion formers

and other industry representative bodies for policy change. • Growing the profile and recognition of the positive impacts of

our industry.

4. Providing the best gifting proposition to our retail members and consumers.

We will do this by: • Being at the forefront of gifting technologies that make it easier

for members and consumers to participate. • Developing a wider reach of gifting that builds on increasing

frequency of visits and increased spend. • Developing nationwide targeted promotional activity

that supports and extends garden gifting.

5. Being a great place to work. We will do this by: • Engaging with our staff to work with our values, providing the

best outcomes for our members. • Providing opportunities to grow, develop and influence the

outcomes of the Association. • Encouraging collaboration to build lasting relationships within

the garden industry.


Dear Colleague

Welcome to the Annual Review of the Horticultural Trades Association (HTA). This is the first review with an introduction jointly signed by the President and Chairman and provides an overview of milestones across the year demonstrating some of the achievements of the association.

The HTA is unique as the only ornamental horticultural membership association that represents the full industry value chain from seed and young plant distributers to growers, manufacturers, retailers and landscapers.

That gives us a considerable advantage to talk with one voice to government and others and position our industry as an innovative and diverse sector. We are an industry which thrives on collaboration and generating socio-economic, health and wellbeing benefits throughout the value chain and wider society. To do this we need to recognise change and evolve as a membership body to ensure we continue to help our industry flourish.

As part of our strategic review we have taken the opportunity to refocus our mission statement and strategic ambitions. We are here “to promote, support and nurture our industry to ensure a robust and sustainable future”. This mission is supported by five strategic ambitions (as outlined on the facing page).

Collaboration within our membership is key, but equally only by working in cooperation with other organisations across the sector are we able to offer the strongest and most united representation of the industry to Government. With expert economists showing that UK ornamental horticulture contributes over £24 billion to the UK economy per annum, we have the chance to build recognition for the positive impacts our industry brings to this country.

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Adam TaylorHTA President

James BarnesHTA Chairman

1. Plant Health Leading the plant health agenda by launching

the Plant Health Management Standard and ‘Plant Healthy’ toolkit.

2. Recyclable plant pots Driving forward the introduction of recyclable

plant pots potentially saving 8,000 tonnes of plastic going to landfill.

3. Industry value For the first time quantifying the value and

contribution of the industry to enable us to raise our profile with Government and decision makers.

Joint introduction from President and Chairman

We have structured this year’s report into the three key aspects of our updated mission statement: Promoting the industry, Supporting the industry and Nurturing the industry.

Promoting the industry - through our marketing and media activity we help to raise the profile of gardening and encourage the next generation of gardeners.

Supporting the industry - it is critical that the horticulture industry voice is heard with policy and decision makers.

Nurturing the industry - it is our role to help businesses and their employees develop whether this is through providing advice lines, attending workshops, e-learning or coming along to an event.

This is a snapshot of some of the activities and services that we provide to you as a member. Please visit the website www.hta.org.uk to view all the benefits of membership that are available to you.

We thank you for your continued support and encourage you to take an active role in your trade association in any way you can. Your involvement is so important so that we can all work together and contribute to a sustainable future for this vibrant horticulture industry.

3 key milestones of the year


Through our marketing and media activity we continue to raise the profile of gardening and encourage the next generation of gardeners.

Promoting the industryNational Garden Gift Voucher scheme• Our long-term aim remains one of strengthening the National

Garden Gift Voucher scheme as the UK’s longest running promotion of gardening, owned and run for the benefit of members.

• Over 2018/19 we completed a re-brand of the old separate voucher and card schemes bringing the two together providing a more coherent offering to consumers. This provides a platform for future expansion into e-gifting and other formats, with a new consumer-facing site launched in July.

• In the first quarter of 2017 sales of gift cards accounted for 2% of members’ garden gift sales and by June 2019 this had grown to around 40%.

• Sales (combined vouchers and cards) to corporate customers are 15% up for the first quarter of 2019 compared with 2018, and we expect this to increase as partnerships with the Wildlife Trusts and employee reward platforms develop.

Promoting gardening to the public• National Children’s Gardening Week (NCGW) was promoted

and supported by 450 garden centres. It reached half a million consumers on Facebook by sharing projects designed to drive footfall into garden centres and promote gardening in schools. NCGW was also the focus for this year’s exhibit at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show.

• We have launched a consumer photography competition where members vote on the images to be used on cards and wallets providing further opportunity for engagement in the scheme. The scheme is also helping to increase consumer awareness of Greenfingers Charity raising valuable funds in the process.

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Gift Voucher sales up

£1 million in 2019 (end of May)

Sales of gift cards account for

40%of members’

garden gift sales (up to June 2019)

NCGW Ambassador Chris Collins ‘Helping Children Grow’ at RHS Chelsea Flower Show


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Over

300 journalists attended

the Garden Press Event 2019

Promoting gardening to the media• The Garden Press Event, owned by HTA and Garden Industry

Manufacturers Association (GIMA), attracted over 300 journalists providing a great opportunity for the industry to showcase products, themes and ideas. This also provides a great platform for us to showcase campaigns such as NCGW and Gardening is Good For You.

In the media• Generating positive national media coverage: As well as

extensive coverage in the trade media and our own HTA News, we featured in key national programmes such as BBC Gardeners’ World and ITV Tonight. Coverage spans everything from The Sun through to BBC Radio 4’s You and Yours programme across a breadth of industry topics.

Over

800 media mentions

generated in 2018

www.hta.org.uk

July / August 2019 Issue£4.50

The trends shaping the future of garden retail

News from HTA National Plant Show 2019

RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2019: Key trends for your customers to try at home

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GARDENINGINVOLVED IN

GETTING CHILDREN

Little green

fingers

Putting the industry in front of the media at the Garden Press Event

BBC Radio 4’s You and Yours programme interviewing HTA vice president Boyd Douglas-Davies


It is critical that the horticulture industry voice is heard by decision makers. From plant health and sustainability to business rates and Brexit it is our role to ensure that members’ views are represented and that we are contributing, shaping and leading on key public policy issues.

Supporting the industryDriving forward the Plant Health Agenda:• The Plant Health Management Standard launched in January.

This sets out the criteria necessary for any business to achieve the highest level of biosecurity.

This was accompanied by an online self-assessment tool, named ‘Plant Healthy’, as an aid to businesses in identifying weaknesses in their internal systems. This is a lead into the Plant Health Assurance Scheme that will be launched later this year.

• Collaborative working: Over the next six months we aim, through collaboration with a wide body of organisations including the RHS, Duchy of Cornwall, BALI and the Landscape Institute, to form the UK’s Plant Health & Biosecurity Alliance. This will become the governing body of the Plant Health Management Standard.

Developing sustainable solutions• Plastic pot campaign: In just one year the Nursery Working

Group has driven forward a kerbside recyclable non-black plastic pot solution for the sector. Widely adopted by growers and retailers, this industry-leading initiative ensures that local authorities and re-processors can recycle the material so that it can be turned back into pots. Having worked with plastics charity RECOUP to provide guidance to local authorities the focus of our campaign turns to publicly urging local councils to collect these pots from the kerbside.

• Growing media: Through our specialist group, the Growing Media Association (GMA), an update on the Responsible Sourcing Scheme will be publicised later this year. This is a first and will inform consumers on the environmental impact of all constituent ingredients of growing media – not just peat. The GMA is producing a road map detailing how the use of peat in growing media can be reduced to zero within a manageable timescale. As part of this Coventry University have been commissioned to look at the socio-economic impact of the use of all materials and the barriers to change.

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150 assessments complete

8,000 tonnes of black plastic pots

to be replaced by recyclable pots

in 2020

Working with Government on plant health. L to R – Martin Simmons, Adam Taylor, Lord Gardiner of Kimble, Nicola Spence and Alistair Yeomans

The new taupe pots in nursery production

£24 billion

Total GDP footprint of the UK’s ornamental

horticulture industries in 2017


Increasing the industry influence and profile• One voice for ornamental horticulture: We are a leading

organisation within the cross-industry Ornamental Horticulture Roundtable Group (OHRG). This high-profile group brings together organisations across horticulture to provide a united voice for the industry to policy makers.

• Led by us, the group published the first ever ‘The Economic Impact of Horticulture and Landscaping the UK’ report in October 2018. The report identified that UK ornamental horticulture industries contribute £24.2 billion to UK GDP, enabling us and others to engage Government and policy makers about the positive impact of our industry.

• Positioning the industry for the future: Three policy priority areas have been identified by the OHRG, with three sub-groups tasked with producing recommendations for

action needed by the industry and government to enhance our sector. We are represented on all three groups and chair the Commercial and Promotion sub-group.

• Political engagement grows: We are a core supporter of the All-Party Parliamentary Gardening and Horticulture Group. In October 2018 the group launched a report recommending nine key policy changes to the Government for our industry. This achieved national media coverage and provided focus for meetings with ministers and policy makers.

• Securing policy change in Scotland: We secured a significant result for members in Scotland, convincing the Scottish Government not to proceed with their plans for an out of town levy for non-domestic rate payers. We also secured a place on a Scottish Government policy review of the disparity between Scottish and English rates assessments – representing members who grow and retail from their establishments.

• Growing profile with policymakers: We were specifically invited to provide our views to the influential House of Commons Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Select Committee to help shape their inquiry into the forthcoming Agriculture Bill – legislation that has significant implications for our industry.

• Raising profile of Green Cities: Through our membership of the European Nurserystock Association (ENA) we are working with the Town and Country Planning Association to deliver the EU funded Green Cities for a Sustainable Europe campaign creating increased demand for trees and plants from UK horticulture.

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9key asks of Government in

APPGHG report

Increasing the industry voice in Westminster Highlighting horticulture at Holyrood Encouraging more green infrastructure through Green Cities


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It is our role to help businesses and their employees develop through involvement in business improvement schemes, providing advice lines, participating in e-learning, workshops or events and keeping up to date with the latest market information.

Nurturing the industryLeading events• The HTA National Plant Show celebrated 10 years in June at

Stoneleigh Park, Coventry. Over 200 stands showcasing the best in British plant production and supporting products and equipment with many exhibitors and visitors commenting it was the best National Plant Show ever.

• The very first Cultivating Retail conference, organised by us and GIMA, took place in October. The event gave retailers and suppliers great insight into upcoming trends, how to target millennials and Gen Z, and also how to improve the retail supply chain. This year’s event, which takes place in November, focuses on the future sustainability of the industry.

• Our first Plant Healthy seminar in January was a sell-out event at Horticulture House and attracted high profile speakers including Lord Gardiner, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Rural Affairs and Biosecurity, and Chief Plant Health Officer, Professor Nicola Spence.

• This was followed by an equally successful first-ever Sustainability Matters seminar in April. Alongside speaker sessions on topics such as plastics and growing media this event provided a great forum for members to discuss key sustainability themes and issues. Both this and the Plant Healthy seminar were hosted at Horticulture House, along with the HTA Marketing Forum and HTA Catering Conference.

• Using market insight and trend information we have been actively involved in developing the Retail Lab @ Glee feature. This feature, themed Happy Gardening in 2018, showcases innovative ideas and approaches for garden retailers to take away on merchandising and cross-selling.

1,000+ plants have entered the New Plant Awards over

the National Plant Show’s history

The National Plant Show celebrated

10 years in 2019

Fairweather’s Nursery crowned the New Plant Award winner at National Plant Show 2019 with Agapanthus Fireworks


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Uptake of the new e-learning platform

has increased by

670% since February

2019

63% the highest

HTA member saving from switching to

Lloyds Cardnet

Developing industry skills• Spring training workshops on Selling More, Visual Merchandising

Gifting and Visual Merchandising Chemical and Fertilisers attracted 112 people over 9 workshops across the country.

• 670% increase in e-learning uptake: From September 2018 to February 2019 we saw the successful creation and development of our new e-learning platform with CPL. Soft launching in February we have already increased our e-learning uptake by 670%, showing the huge interest and need for this type of learning.

• The Business improvement schemes and Retail development forum remain very popular with members gaining from the sharing of data and the networking opportunities.

Saving costs• Our partnership with Lloyds Cardnet has been a real standout,

and we have been delighted by the rapid growth of the scheme and the feedback from members detailing the cost savings they have been experiencing.

• We are working closely with partners who are helping members improve their sustainability credentials. These include: Alpha Packaging, HTA Utilities, Ecogen and Ideal Lights.

Market Information• We have increased the frequency of our Market Update

publication from quarterly to monthly. We have also responded to member feedback on the format in which we communicate our market information. We’ve switched to a punchier, more digestible format and complemented this with more in-depth reports, for instance on trends in technology and wildlife.

Hands on experience on a Christmas merchandising course Sharing expertise at a Retail Development Forum meeting at Swarkestone Garden Centre (June 2019)


APL featured on BBC TV coverage.

Viewing figures for Hampton Court Garden

Festival were

5.5 million

2019 has been another successful year for the APL. Membership continues to grow and has for the first time reached over the 300 mark of fully accredited members. This growth is in line with the APL strategy to be the ‘go to’ organisation for domestic landscaping. This has been highlighted by confirmation as accrediting partner for John Lewis Home Solutions and most recently Bradstone. Garden Designer membership continues to grow as designers see the value of the access to APL accredited members, cluster groups and industry specific information, along with the opportunity to enter our very own APL Awards. The committee has expanded to include a subcommittee group - tasked with delivering initiatives to support the membership including the production of best practice guides, training requirements and APL support resource and marketing.

Association of Professional Landscapers• Putting the APL in front of consumers: A big part of the

marketing for the APL is around our appearance at the horticultural shows. This year the APL has had gardens at:

• Harrogate Spring Show (Gold and Newby Cup for best Soft Landscaping)

• RHS Chelsea Flower Show supporting Perennial (Silver Gilt) • BBC Gardeners’ World Live with John Lewis Home Solutions

(Gold) • RHS Hampton Court Garden Festival, a collaborative garden

engaging over 19 contractors including Kebur Landscape Division and APL designer Cherry Carmen (Silver).

• In the media: A fantastic year of awards and gardens that has enabled us to hand out over 5,000 branded leaflets, 750 review magazines, numerous face to face discussions with potential clients and BBC TV show coverage, with viewing figures of 5.5 million for Hampton Court Garden Festival alone.

• Developing young landscapers: BBC Gardeners’ World Live also supported our APL Avenue Competition and the APL Young Landscapers Award (YLA). The five avenue gardens and two YLA gardens won one Platinum, three Golds, one Silver Merit and two Silver Awards between them and proved very popular.

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Over

5,000 leaflets distributed

to consumers

APL TeamChair: Rod Winrow, Garden House Design

Vice-Chair: David Sewell, The Gardenmakers

APL General Manager: Phil Tremayne

APL Assistant: Natalie Ilsley

The High Line Garden took the Platinum Award on APL Avenue at BBC Gardeners’ World Live

The winning team from Design It Landscapes with designer Lucy Bravington

80APL Cluster

meetings across 15 regions


• The APL apprenticeship scheme continues to go from strength to strength having delivered 50 qualified apprentices into our industry since 2015. This unique scheme provides young landscapers with a series of eight week-long block releases over 18 months in addition to regular onsite assessment and coursework.

• The APL are also the organising partner for WorldSkills UK Landscaping competition. This is an intensive competition where some of the best young landscapers pitch their talents against each other by building test pieces and gardens to industry standard at millimetre tolerances.

• Building the landscaping community: The APL continues to organise over 80 cluster meetings held in 15 separate regions providing valuable networking opportunities and peer to peer support. The cluster meetings are a great platform to introduce potential new members to the APL and identify areas where members are looking for support.

• One such example is our Business Development Programme. This four-day course, developed by past Chair Ken White, enables delegates to create a business plan under expert guidance which is then critiqued by industry leaders. It has been a resounding success with further courses scheduled.

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Since 2015 APL helped train

50 apprentices

into the industry

The APL and John Lewis Home Solutions Garden won gold Sam Gordon from The Gardenmakers competing at the final of WorldSkills UK landscaping competition The Perennial Garden at Chelsea built by APL members

Celebrating success at the Young Landscapers Award at BBC Gardeners’ World Live


The British Ornamental Plant Producers’ (BOPP) Certification Scheme is a grower specialist group of the HTA. Formed over twenty-two years ago, BOPP provides robust standards for ornamental horticulture in the UK and beyond. The scheme is an internationally recognised quality management system which provides assurances that production within a business is sustainable and safe. Designed specifically for the ornamental horticulture industry, it is applied to a business’s processes and procedures. The business is independently inspected against the standards for the business to become certified. The scheme includes the principals of integrated crop management, environmental welfare, workers welfare, traceability, plant health and biosecurity.

BOPP Certification Scheme BOPP Management Committee The BOPP Management Committee currently comprises of ten members, who meet between three and four times per year, usually at Bordon Hill Nurseries, to discuss the scheme’s strategy and development of the BOPP Standards. The BOPP Certification Scheme is represented on the HTA Board by Sandy Shepherd, Ball Colegrave and at HTA Council by Rebecca Grant, Joseph Rochford Gardens.

Industry recognition and promotion A mapping exercise identified that the BOPP Grower and Packhouse Standard is recognised widely amongst retailers and multiples in the UK. The scheme was promoted at the HTA National Plant Show in June to visitors and exhibitors.

Raising standards A new version of the BOPP Packhouse Standard (Version 6.0) was released in April 2019. Members were given a three month transition period to achieve certification from the previous standard. The BOPP Committee undertook this review/ benchmarking exercise to keep the standard’s control points and compliance criteria robust and up to date. Ensuring they are in line with other similar standards within the ornamental industry and the wider agriculture and manufacturing industries.

Previous feedback from those that use the standard and retailers was taken into consideration. The standard now has a more logical flow in certain sections. Where applicable, a more focused risk assessment-based approach has been written into the standard, particularly with respect to controlling product quality, safety and legality. Areas such as biosecurity, plant health, traceability, data protection and ethical standards have been a particular focus.The Grower Standard review started this year which involves benchmarking against GLOBAL G.A.P. version 5.2 and updating the plant health and biosecurity aspects of the standard.

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BOPP Management CommitteeRebecca Grant (Chair) Joseph Rochford Gardens

Nina Wilkinson Flamingo Horticulture UK

Rebecca Crompton Flamingo Horticulture UK

Greg Hill Hill Brothers

Andrea Marshall Westland Horticulture

Lucie Coxhall Coletta and Tyson

Stefan Atanasov Coletta and Tyson

Malcolm Tanner Bordon Hill Nurseries

Johnny Young J Z Flowers

Aaron Bicknell Farplants 8out of the top ten

ornamental nurseries (by turnover) are BOPP members

Supporting growers for

22 years

Image courtesy of Coletta & Tyson


Collaboration The BOPP Grower and Packhouse Standards are registered on the International Standards Map, and the scheme has continued to participate in the Floriculture Sustainability Initiative (FSI). BOPP also participates in the GLOBALG.A.P. Benchmarked Schemes meetings and consultations regarding the IFA Standard and Regulations. The committee has continued to work closely with the BOPP inspection partners, NSF Certification and ADAS UK. NSF Certification provides UKAS accredited certification for the grower, packhouse standards and also provides auditing services for the BOPP growing media standard. The NSF auditing team comprises three auditors in the UK. There are also three internationally based auditors located in South Africa, Kenya and Costa Rica. The Scheme Manager monitors the liaison with certification bodies and reviews trends in non-conformances so that appropriate additional support can be provided to the membership and/or auditors. ADAS UK Ltd has continued to provide scored audits with advisory comments for the Continual Development Standard.

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Committees and Groups Commercial CommitteeChair: Caroline Owen, Scotsdales Garden CentreThe Commercial Committee is a cross-sector group made up of retailers, growers and garden product suppliers with a responsibility to represent larger HTA members operating in the retail sector and its supply chain. The Committee meets twice a year to identify key issues that impact the sector; consider, discuss and review HTA initiatives, activities and operations regarding the sector and to provide recommendations to the HTA.

Ornamentals Management CommitteeChair: Geoff Caesar, Bordon Hill NurseriesThis is the most strategic HTA Grower Group and membership includes representatives from the Retail Suppliers Group, Amenity Suppliers Group and Tree and Hedging Group. It directly advises HTA on lobbying strategies, channelling a consensus voice where possible, to ensure a powerful industry message.This group also generates strategies for growers in dealing with major issues and challenges, such as plant health and was instrumental in establishing the HTA Responsible Sourcing Statement for plants. The committee meets three times a year and helps create and drive HTA projects, both sector-specific and industry-wide.

Growing Media AssociationChair: Steve Harper, Bord na Mona Ltd - until Feb 2019Chair: Neil Bragg, Bulrush Horticulture - from Feb 2019The GMA and its members are committed to the provision of high-quality growing media for millions of plants grown in pots and containers for the amateur and professional markets.The GMA is working hard towards launching a Responsible Sourcing Scheme for growing media to enable manufacturers and users of growing media to understand, measure and source materials more responsibly, which will help to improve sustainability.

Tree and Hedging GroupChair: Matt Hommel, Christie-Elite Nurseries LtdRepresenting the production of bare-root and container tree and hedging plant growers and suppliers, this group directly influences HTA industry lobbying activity, such as plant health and for major public procurement projects such as HS2. In recent years it identified the threat of ash dieback and Xylella fastidiosa, alerting government and the trade to the threat posed by these devastating diseases.

Image courtesy of Hill Brothers

The GMA Committee (February 2019)


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Looking after members’ interests remains at the core of everything we do and your association continues to be active in areas that you have told us are important to your businesses. We are the largest trade association operating across all sectors of the garden and horticulture industry. We are uniquely placed to represent its interests by being the voice of the industry to government, by encouraging new customers through the promotion of gardening to the public and by developing the industry through the provision of a suite of products and services carefully selected to help you in your businesses.

HTA Governance

Groups & Committees

Marketing & Insights including digital media

Member Support & Account Management

including preferred suppliers

Events

Horticulture

Martin SimmonsDirector of Membership

Finance

I.T.

HTA Member Services

Alex VickSenior Executive Director

Finance Director

AIPH Service AgreementsAdvice Line Agreements

Venue SalesFacilities Management

Office Tenants

Human ResourcesLearning & Development

Anne ClarkDirector of Human

Resources & Learning

Non Executive Board(Chaired by HTA President)

Senior Executive DirectorAlex Vick

Communications & Public Relations

Policy & Advocacy

James ClarkDirector of Policy

& Communications

HTA Chairman James Barnes

Tree & Hedging

Group

Retail Suppliers

Group

Amenity Suppliers

Group

APL Committee

Commercial Committee

OrnamentalManagement

CommitteeGMA

Committee

HTA Board

CouncilBOPP Committee

Nursery Working

Group


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HTA President Adam Taylor Taylors Bulbs

Immediate Past President

Adam Wigglesworth(until June 2019) Aylett Nurseries

Vice President Boyd Douglas-Davies Hillview Group

HTA Chairman James Barnes

Bob Hewitt Klondyke Garden Centres

Matthew Bent Bents Garden and Home

Richard Pyrah Ames/GIMA

Sandy Shepherd Ball Colegrave

Simon Fraser Ben Reid Garden Centre

Brian Fraser Oakover Nurseries

Alex Vick HTA Senior Executive Director

Martin Simmons HTA Director of Membership

Anne Clark HTA Director of Learning & Development

James Clark HTA Director of Policy & Communications

The Board directs the affairs of the association and meets four times a year as well as communicating regularly as required throughout the year. The Board is chaired by the HTA President. In January 2019 James Barnes was appointed as HTA Chairman. Members of the Board are elected annually at the Association’s AGM. All full members are invited to attend and vote at the AGM.

HTA Board

Chair Adam Taylor Taylors Bulbs

North West Adrian Cornelissen Burleydam Garden Centre

Thames and Chilterns Alan Goold Henry Street Garden Centre

South East England Will Foulkes Longacres Garden Centre

West of England Gavin Cooper Prior Park Garden Centre

East Anglia Gill Tacchi Robin Tacchi Plants

Scotland Helen MacDonald Merryhatton Garden Centre

Northern Ireland John Shannon Inver Garden Centre

Central Southern England Jon Munday Blackmoor Nurseries

East Midlands Laura Jackson Swarkestone Nursery

Wales Matthew Thomas Frank P Matthews

Yorkshire and North East Neil Grant Ferndale Garden Centre

West Midlands Nicola Gow Fresh @ Burcot

London, Home Counties & Essex Rebecca Grant Joseph Rochford Gardens

Devon & Cornwall Sarah Daniel Pengelly Garden Centre

APL representative David Sewell The Gardenmakers

HTA Martin Simmons HTA Director of Membership

The HTA Council consists of 14 regional representatives who act as contact points for members in their area. The HTA Council meets three times a year and is chaired by the HTA President.

HTA Council

HTA Council in action

HTA Board (June 2019)

Horticultural Trades AssociationHorticulture HouseChilton, DidcotOxfordshire, OX11 0RN

T 0333 003 3550E [email protected] www.hta.org.uk

Documents

HTA Annual Review 2019 Promote. Support. Nurture. · Association (HTA). This is the first review with an introduction jointly signed by the President and Chairman and provides an