The Royal Parks opens its first store in Hyde Park in the present day (4 July) on the newly-renovated boat home by the Serpentine Lake, providing guests a seasonal vary of sustainable, high-quality merchandise.
The charity, which manages London’s eight Royal Parks, is opening its first store to offer guests with a brand new strategy to interact with and assist the character and heritage of the parks.
All income will likely be reinvested again into caring for the parks, together with via conservation to assist the parks’ wildlife, restoration tasks, studying, and volunteering actions.
Timeless, conventional, premium product ranges with a contemporary twist will embody gardening gadgets akin to instruments, seeds, and vegetation, alongside homeware merchandise, outside and picnic equipment, toys, meals items, house fragrances, books, clothes, and equipment.
A Royal Parks branded vary will likely be out there, which can embody journey mugs, tote baggage, prints, playing cards, and calendars.
The vary will likely be underpinned by sustainability, with ethically and domestically sourced merchandise that incorporate recycled, re-purposed parts.
The Royal Parks Store will inventory a spread of core gadgets all 12 months spherical, supplemented by seasonal and unique merchandise with the potential for future collaborations.
Caroline Gitsham, Retail Director, The Royal Parks charity, stated: “We hope that Londoners and folks visiting Hyde Park from additional afield will get pleasure from popping into our new store to browse our seasonal vary of high-quality, sustainably-sourced merchandise – and perhaps deal with themselves to a memento of their day or discover a considerate reward for a pal.
“Our merchandise are impressed by the great nature and the vital heritage of the Royal Parks.
“Earnings will go in direction of defending and enhancing these invaluable inexperienced areas in order that guests now and sooner or later can proceed to get pleasure from them.”
The store has been fitted out utilizing sustainable and recycled supplies, and all packaging will likely be paper and recyclable.
Supply: royalparks.org.uk
