Prestige Flowers, which has supported Barnardo’s since 2012, has vowed to continue raising money by creating a special range of bouquets in honour of the charity. For every order made through a dedicated website, www.barnardosflowers.org.uk, Prestige Flowers will donate 25% of the overall order cost to Barnardo’s, which supports more than 301,000 children, young people, parents and carers.

As part of the celebrations for the rejuvenated website and special bouquets, Prestige Flowers also organised a special flower arranging session in Barnardo’s Listerhills office in Bradford for the families, young people and children it works with in the city.

The day was a fun and informative workshop involving 20 adults, children and young people learning about the different origins and species of flowers, as well as the art and skill of arranging flowers. The participants got take their bouquets home after they had made them.

Barnardo’s Chief Executive Javed Khan said: “We are really grateful for the continued support from Prestige Flowers. We hope this partnership will raise lots of money towards our vital services which support hundreds of thousands of children, young people, parents and carers across the UK every year. On behalf of those children and young people we would like to say a massive thank you to the staff at Prestige and their customers.”

Cath Ormerod from Barnardo’s in Bradford, commented: “We were delighted when Prestige said they’d like to arrange a special flower arranging session with our families. It was a lovely day – people really enjoyed themselves and the results were absolutely beautiful.”

Philip Crowther, Business Development Manager at Prestige Flowers added: “The Flower Workshop was an incredible event and extremely rewarding. We’re really passionate here at Prestige Gifting to work with charities like Barnardos, creating events and opportunities like the Flower Workshop. We’re thrilled to be supporting Barnardo’s and the thousands of children and young people who will benefit from their services.”

Visit www.barnardosflowers.org.uk to buy a special bouquet from Prestige Flowers and donate to Barnardo’s.

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To remind people of the power of saying ‘thank you’ properly, and encourage people to do it more often, Cadbury has opened ‘Thanks a Bunch’, a flower shop with a difference. The shop is being run by legendary London florist, Augustus Bloom, who has turned his hand to chocolate floristry for the campaign; hand-crafting beautiful chocolate flower bouquets made from the range of mouth-watering Cadbury Roses flavours, which include Golden Barrel, Signature Truffle and classic Caramel.

This campaign comes as a response to a survey of over 2,000 Britons, which found that the vast majority (80 percent) believe that in the age of text messaging and short form communication, we don’t say thank you enough. And, when we do say it, 78 per cent of people across all ages believe we’re not doing it properly – with half (53 per cent) of those polled stating they would much rather receive a physical gesture, such as a handwritten letter, flowers or chocolates over commonly used digital forms.

The good news is that getting a ‘thank you’ right is very powerful in our manners-obsessed nation, with almost all respondents (94 per cent) saying a heartfelt thank you done properly made them feel warm inside. And the same percentage stating that one heartfelt ‘thank you’ gesture is worth 20 half-hearted ones.

Completely free, on a first-come, first-served basis, there will be bouquets and single stem Cadbury Roses ‘Roses’ on offer. Visitors picking up these elegant bespoke gifts will simply need to pay with their message of thanks, which will then be added to their Roses. With the Soho based florist dripping in beautifully crafted Roses flowers, this will be the ideal place to pick up a unique present for a loved one.

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