Wow!  If you've got someone in your life who LOVES cheese, then take a look at Pong Cheese.

Pong Cheese have some of the very best cheeses produced by the leading independent and artisan producers, together.  They have a huge range, just the thing for anyone who loves cheese and has everything, and they've also got a cheese gift subscription  as well so your loved one can get cheese every month to enjoy and tuck in!  (You can choose from 3, 6 or 12 months' subscription.)

Buy a cheese gift subscription!

SPECIAL OFFER on the Easter range

Now, just in time for Easter they've got a special off on their mouth-watering Easter range!  Get 10% off their Easter range until 12th April 2026 with the code EASTER26

They've got some really gorgeous cheeses in the Easter range, with several cheese boxes (including Italian, the Best of British, an Explorer box, a Connossieur box, a Spanish selection box, a Somerset box  - there's even a box for new mums!  

This is The Best of British Tasting Box for £40.00. 
It comes with several cheeses, such as the Mull of Kintyre, (a classic rich Cheddar),
the Golden Cenarth (that's Welsh), the Cornish Yarg, and the Cropwell Bishop Stilton.
It is part of the Easter range, so you could get 10% off with the EASTER26 code.  
Go on, indulge them!  

Visit Pong Cheese here to see all their mouth-watering delicious baked cheeses!

The RHS (Royal Horticultural Society) was founded back in 1804, and it has lots for everyone!  

There are five beautiful RHS gardens to explore, such as Hyde Hall in Essex
and 240 partner gardens!

Gift Membership is fantastic value, with:

• Unlimited entry to all 5 RHS Gardens for the member and a family guest or 2 children
• A copy of The Garden magazine
• Unlimited, personalised RHS Gardening advice
• Regular emails with exclusive member content
• Free entry to over 230 Partner Gardens for the member
• Reduced rate on tickets to RHS Shows

So you get a lot for your membership throughout the year.

But there’s more!   The nice thing about the RHS is that they run quite a few campaigns such as National Gardening Week, Wild About Gardens and School Gardens (their campaign has lots of free teaching resources and online training course and awards).  They also have a Planet-Friendly Gardening campaign which has 10 ways for us all to be more sustainable in our gardens. 

And of course, the RHS brings gardening to the neighbourhood, with Britain in Bloom, the RHS It’s Your Neighbourhood and affiliated societies. 

The RHS has over 600,000 members, and membership contributions help to support the work the RHS does, be it undertaking horticultural science or supporting community gardening groups.

Find out about the RHS Grow, the gardening app
The app gives you access to 200 years of knowledge
from botanists, scientists, fruit and veg experts and RHS specialist advisors!

Enjoy a year of days out & gardening inspiration with the RHS!   

A quick word about the RHS Flower Shows in 2026!

This year, the RHS has exciting new shows:  RHS Badminton Flower Show is in the South Gloucestershire countryside (that’s the 8^th to 12^th July 2026);  and RHS Sandringham Flower Show is to be held in the grounds of the Norfolk estate – royal family-owned – from the 22^nd to 26^th July 2026.

And there’s also the RHS Malvern Spring Festival, Worcester, from the 7^th to 10^th May 2026, the big one, RHS Chelsea Flower Show from the 19^th to 23^rd May 2026, the RHS Botanical Art and Photography Show at the Saatchi Gallery, London from the 19^th June to the 2nd August 2026, and the Malvern Autumn Show from the 25^th to 27^th September 2026.  I love the sound of the Malvern Autumn Show, as it’s celebrates country living!  There are vintage vehicles and fashions, harvest competitions, rural crafts and local, artisan food and drink markets.  Can’t wait!

I love the Wildlife Trusts.  They are a grassroots movement of people from all sorts of backgrounds and they are on a mission:  to restore a third of the UK’s land and seas for nature by 2030.  I'm a member of three Wildlife Trusts and I love to hear all their news and what they are up to.  Even more, I love supporting them in their work to help wildlife. 

Each Wildlife Trust is an independent charity.  Those involved (in whatever way) want to make a difference to wildlife, to nature, to our climate. 

There are now 46 Trusts throughout the UK, from Alderney Wildlife Trust in the Channel Islands to the Scottish Wildlife Trust, from South and West Wales to Suffolk, from Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly to Northumberland.  So wherever you are, or wherever the nature lover in your life is, there should be a Wildlife Trust in their area you can tap into and get involved with.

The Wildlife Trusts together have over 944,000 members, over 33,000 volunteers, 4,100 staff and 600 trustees.  They manage over 2,600 nature reserves for nature and for people. (January 2026 from the Wildlife Trust's About Us page.)

Members are helping their Trust to look after wildlife and the natural places in their area, and they receive a welcome back, regular magazines and lots of information. It’s the sort of thing where you can get as involved as you want; if you are really manic with life, you can at least know that your membership is helping your Trust continue with its vital work.   

Membership benefits

Because each Trust is an independent charity, the memberships will vary on cost (most are about £3 a month) but generally they include a welcome pack of goodies, regular magazines full of news and features, access to beautiful nature reserves, talks, walks and events – these are a great way to meet fellow wildlife lovers who care about the natural world – and chances to campaign for wildlife.

Many Wildlife Trusts have half price membership offers (or similar) in January 2026, (most to new members only)!

So this could be a great opportunity to treat yourself or a loved one to a reduced price membership, be it half price or anything else for that matter, and to support wildlife at the same time!

Give a gift membership to a Wildlife Trust here

Take Action and Support your Local Wildlife Trust

Take a look at your local Wildlife Trust, you can find yours here – and sign up.  It’s a great way to show your support for nature and to help Wildlife Trusts reach the 30x30 target - that's 30% of land and sea protected by 2030. 

The Wildlife Trusts are aiming to put nature in recovery, making more space for it and connecting habitats on a large scale so that wildlife can pass safely through to new territories.  The Trusts want to restore nature so that ecosystems can function again - the UK natural world is very much depleted now.   

The Trusts are also hoping to inspire us all to act for nature and rewild our neighbourhoods, working with our communities.  I am a member of a couple of Wildlife Trusts and love to receive news of how I can get involved and make a difference - and also to see success stories.  Together we can all drive change and actually help nature help us - nature is vital for our wellbeing. 

So give a gift membership to a Wildlife Trust and you'll be giving a gift that helps nature, wildlife and people and is a win-win for nature lovers all round!

You could also donate to an appeal.   There's a HUGE appeal for the Rothbury Estate - the Trust has until September 2026 to raise £30 million (no, I didn't type that wrongly) to secure 3,800 hectares.   You can discover all about it here.

How about a plant subscription for someone who loves plants? 

Now, Flying Flowers are based in Jersey, in the Channel Islands (the island famous for Gerald Durrell, the conservationist) and the beautiful, gentle Jersey milking cow), and they've been delivering flowers for over 40 years.   

So how did it start? Back in 1981, some holidaymakers in Jersey stopped sending postcards home and they began to send carnations instead.  They were a great and colourful way to send love to family and friends back home and to let them know that they were being thought of! 

And if you're looking for a gift for whom flowers would be just the thing, you could take a look at their flower subscriptions.  You can choose from  3, 6 or 12 months - and there's a choice in the subscriptions of seasonal flowers or a flower subscription.  

The seasonal flowers depend on what Mother Nature has in stock.   And Flying Flowers support British growers, so they say they ensure British stems are included in each box, year round. 

This is a lovely gift idea to give someone a surprise for however many months you choose to have your subscription run - just imagine their faces when they open the door!  And plants arrive in a co-ordinating container, so the recipient doesn't have to go rummaging for pots and so on - they can just decide where to put them and sit back and enjoy them!

Fly away to see the subscription gifts here.

At the moment, they've got special offers on flower subscription gifts, too - I'm not sure how long that will last, so make the most of it! 

Keep the love flowing month after month!