We have a monthly networking zoom meeting for committee members of garden clubs to share advice & tips at 7.30pm on the first Wednesday of each month from Sep to Apr. You don’t have to be affiliated, it’s open to every club, so please do join us, you can just sit and listen in if you wish. Same zoom code.

For the garden clubs that attended the RHS Affilated clubs forum in July 2022 at Bridgwater and saw Indy’s presentation on ‘Modernising Garden Clubs’, please find below blank template documents that were demonstrated.

New garden club member registration form – Please amend this to suit your club. When you want to register a new member to your club, you can use this form. They keep the form and they email you their contact details. You can then copy and paste their details onto your membership database, thereby avoiding any typo errors if it was hand written. This should also reduce the workload for the member secretary and more importantly, it’s a really clever way to stop emails ending up in the spam folder (if you wish to know how, please feel free to ask me on zoom and I’ll explain).

UPDATED 2023 Card Payment Machines – I created this for the RHS (originally in Summer 2022) which they sent to all their affiliated clubs so you should have already received it. If not then you can download it here (also contact the RHS to ensure they have your correct email address). The T&Cs of providers are always changing, so this is the new latest version updated for 2023.

Beginners handout – Please amend this to suit your club. You can use this to give to brand new beginner garden club members when they join your club.

Tender Shoots publicity ‘Recommend a Friend A4 sheet for printing– You can print this off double sided, then keep it in your wallet/purse to give to gardening friends to let them know about Tender Shoots.

Produce & Craft Show Flyer – I created this for the Austrey Gardening Club to so they could deliver it to every house in their town. The link is a PDF version, but if you would like to edit it for your club, here is a word version.

Quiz document – This quiz can be saved as a backup in case you need it and was kindly provided by Whitparish Garden Club to help other clubs

If you have any recommendations for improving any of these documents, please do get in touch with suggestions.