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Perfect Pots won!

caroline on Dec 10th 2009

Thanks to everyone who voted for us. We won the award for ‘Best School Social Enterprise’. What an achievement!awards

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Shortlisted for Social Enterprise Award

caroline on Nov 22nd 2009

Perfect Pots has been shortlisted for a UK Enterprise award. They’re in the final three and it’s now down to an online vote, which closes on 30th November.

Attending a reception at No 10 for shortlisted social enterprises

Attending a reception at No 10 for shortlisted social enterprises

So please vote today for the Holbrook Centre for Autism at 

http://www.socialenterpriseawards.org.uk/awards_vote.php

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A Perfect Pot for the Prime Minister

caroline on Sep 10th 2009

The Perfect Pots team went to Downing Street to deliver a hanging basket to Prime Minister Gordon Brown, to showcase their talents.

The Perfect Pots team meet Gordon Brown

The Perfect Pots team meet Gordon Brown

Delivering the basket to 10, Downing Street

Delivering the basket to 10, Downing Street

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Summer Baskets available from 1st June

caroline on May 11th 2009

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6th-may-001.jpg  The team are hard at work getting

baskets ready for the summer season.

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Planting has begun for our summer baskets

caroline on Feb 16th 2009

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The Perfect Pots team have Spring baskets ready for sale and have begun planting seeds for summer baskets… Get your orders in early!

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Add some Spring colour to your patio

caroline on Feb 10th 2008

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The team at Perfect Pots have been busy over the winter months and now have some stunning daffoldils and are taking orders for Spring baskets…

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Hanging Baskets and Pots for the Patio

admin on Dec 4th 2007

Perfect Pots!

perfectpots1.jpgA team of young men with Autism and Severe Learning Difficulties are overcoming all the odds by running a successful business, growing a wide range of bedding plants and bulbs which they plant up into pots and hanging baskets for sale to the public.

Based at the Holbrook Centre for Autism, they developed an interest in plants and horticulture and chose this to be the focus of their work-related learning at 14. They began to attend Broomfield College one morning a week where they planted a range of bedding plants from seed.

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