Get Out And Grow School Gardening Kit Giveaway (Paid Partnership with Sudocrem)

It's almost Summer and a great time to get children outdoors and learning about where fruit and vegetables come from and how they are grown. We're working in a paid partnership with Sudocrem to promote gardening in schools and show just what a difference it can make.

In a recent survey, 90% of children said that they would like a garden at school. The whole process of planting and raising plants includes maths, science and a host of other subjects, as well as giving your child skills for life. Enjoying and even eating the end results will give anyone a real sense of pride - plus the fresher the produce, the more vitamins and flavour it has!

This Summer Sudocrem are donating 20 Get Out and Grow Kits worth £160 to UK schools and I'm delighted to say I will be giving one of them away on this blog. The kits contain everything the school needs to make a start with their own garden, including children’s wheelbarrows, gardening gloves, mini-trowels, seeds and lessons on how to make the most of a school garden.

Sudocrem was first developed in 1931 by Dublin-based pharmacist Thomas Smith and the name changed to Sudocrem in 1950 because of the Dublin pronunciation of "soothing cream". Known best maybe for treating bums and burns, it's really useful for gardeners because it soothes sun and wind-burned skin, and moisturises dry hands. You can find an idea of just how many conditions it can help on the Sudocrem website.

The Get Out and Grow project was developed by Sudocrem following research* which suggested that many children don't get the chance to garden, haven't ever grown edible plants and lack basic understanding about where their food comes from. They found that even though 87% of British households have a garden, most children aged 4-8 can't name 5 vegetables or fruits grown in them, and 95% couldn't name 3 UK garden herbs.

Children had a basic misunderstanding of how growing plants works, with 79% believing worms are bad for plants and less than 20% able to name a trowel or a rake. It's actually a surprise that 20% of children said they had eaten a vegetable they’ve grown themselves.

Gardening doesn't only teach our children about nature, it's therapeutic and rewarding, and has been proven to have a positive effect on pupil behaviour. Not everyone excels at academic subjects, so gardening also gives another opportunity for children to find something they enjoy and are good at.

Four years ago Benjamin Adlard Primary School in Lincolnshire was rated as one of Britain’s worst schools by Ofsted, but it has now won the national Pearson award for School of the Year: Making a Difference and their new school garden is being credited with making the difference.

The headmaster Sam Coy said:

“The children absolutely love den-building, just generally getting dirty and nature hunts. One child recently told me that he loves going to the forest school on a Tuesday afternoon so much as it helps him to behave all week as he never wants to not be able to go.”

The Get Out and Grow school gardening kit giveaway can be the start of something brilliant for your chosen school too. Anyone an enter, nominate the school of your choice in the form below. You can find out more about the Get Out And Grow campaign here. 

The giveaway ended at midnight Sunday 30th June. To see my current UK giveaways, go to my Giveaways Page...


*Research was conducted amongst 300 children, nationwide, aged between 4 and 8 years old – contacted via an online panel and accessed via their parent/guardian. Fieldwork was carried out between the 28th February and 2nd March 2019. Photos supplied by Sudocrem with the permission of the pupils and their parents.

We were paid for the time taken to administrate this giveaway. I use Sudocrem and have done for as long as I can remember.