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December 2020

Our Peter Pan sword was selected for the Christmas Gift Guide 2020 in the Wealden Times. 

November 2020

We are super proud to be featured in the National Magazine of Families. The magazine is a popular go to magazines for parents with toddlers.

October 2020

We have 2 beautiful balance bikes for toddlers in store. The balance bikes are amazing because the seats are super comfortable and are suitable as a toddler bike for 2 year old. They look adorable and glide beautifully.

September 2020

September is the month of Autumn fairs. At these fairs you usually find new items for Christmas. This year they have been cancelled or moved. However, the Top Drawer Autumn fair did an amazing job of putting it all online. They had talks and stands and a lot of support for visitors. 

July 2020

We have a new lance in store - the Dragon Lance. Look at the detail on the head of the lance. Isn't it amazing!

June 2020

There is news that we might be able to get out of lock down. There will be new ways to interact while we are out and about. So we created some new posters that are fun and remind people of what to do. This is all very new and strange for us all.

May 2020

As lockdown continued, we became more aware of how your mind also needs exercise. The mind needs to have stimulation of various sorts to keep healthy. So we created 3 pdf's to download for free. The pdf's have lovely intricate designs to keep you busy and your give your mind time to relax.

April 2020

We started posting each day since the Lockdown began on 23 March. Our posts were to be ways on how to mentally manage the days during the lock down. There are posts for you to keep sane, and for the children to keep occupied.  Every day we posted something different and we hope one of them helped. 

I am posting this in May...and the lock down continues and so do our posts.

March 2020

Green Owl Toys donated a few beautifully handmade wooden prizes for FOCRG and Chislehurst Society's first Chislehurst Recycling Roadshow.  This event is to highlight how YOU can help save the planet!

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We support all events that promote eco-friendly way of living.

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February 2020

Once a year we design, manufacture and select toys that go into our wholesale catalogue.  Its a lot of work that goes into completing it in time for our customers to make their 2020 selection.

January 2020

Our wonderful wooden Dragster and City cars have won Gold in the Bizzie Baby award 2020!  Very proud of the 2 beautiful all wooden cars designed by Green Owl Toys.  Both toys are made in Poland using FSC sourced wood.

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In the link below you can read reviews made by independent testers (mums and their children).

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https://bizziebaby.co.uk/product-review/allwood-cars-2-in-a-box/

December 2019

We were asked by a local secondary school, Bullers Wood for Girls, to do a presentation and lead a Toy project for their Year 10 and Sixth Form Design and Technology students. 

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Bullers Wood for Girls have an amazing Design and Technology department with many beautiful machines the students can use including a laser cutter and 3D printing.

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This created a wonderful base in which the students could create toys to the project specifications we provided.

5 November 2019

On Fire works night we found out that our Fox teether and Fox toy were  announced that they were finalist in the "Made for Mums" toy awards.

We are so pleased to get this award as it is highly competitive and judged by independent parents. 

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https://www.madeformums.com/reviews/madeformums-toy-awards-2019-winners/

10 October 2019

Judges impressed by the company ethics, product offering and business growth since they started operating out of storage. 

Green Owl Toys has been shortlisted for the Access Self Storage Business Awards 2019. Green Owl Toys was selected out of hundreds of entrants to join six other companies in the shortlist.

The awards are designed to reward and recognise the innovative companies using Access Self Storage’s services to grow their businesses. The winner will receive a business package worth £2,500 and will be crowned the Access Self Storage Business of the Year.

Kevin Pratt, spokesperson for the Access Self Storage Business of the Year Awards, says:

“Being shortlisted for this award is a huge achievement as we sifted through an incredibly high calibre of hundreds of entries! What I love about our Business Awards is that we get to see the full breadth of businesses that work out of our 58 stores. As our units range in size from a locker to a football pitch, the businesses are really varied. Each has different and inventive ways of using the Access Self Storage facilities.”

The winner will be announced on Monday 11th November 2019.

13 September 2019

This was a month of visiting...we visited customers in and out of London as well as the Top Drawer Autumn Fair.  This photo was taken on one of our trips.

22 August 2019

FC Elmstead Football Club have just completed building a fantastic venue to store their equipment storage and supply endless coffee and bacon rolls.  Our donations have helped in some way bring this fantastic facility to the community. They are thanking those who helped by engraving a brick on their wall.

10 July 2019

We attended a local wood working course. Its an eye opener on how talented artisans have to be to make such great pieces.  This owl is obviously not one of our works but we loved him all the same.

15 June 2019

We donated an 11 kg rocking motorbike made of solid wood to the local children's Hospice in light of our joint 10th anniversary celebrations.

15 May 2019

We had a successful trade fair in Olympia this May. You learn so much at a fair. Not only from old and new customers but also other people around you. You pick up advice that compliment your ethics.

11 April 2019

Meeting suppliers of great wooden puzzles. They are designers and manufacturers. They have amazing designs and ideas. We look forward to working together on new projects.

13 March 2019

Green owl Toys began in a garage, then into a large shed and now into a warehouse. We have expanded year-on-year and the business has evolved through time. We now manufacture our own toys with our own designs. Looking at what we have achieved in the past 10 years, we are excited to what the next 10 years will bring.

1 February 2019

Across England and the globe, suppliers are setting up their products to show them off to their current and potential customers. Its a manic time for all involved and the logistics of keeping the daily running of business going while enhancing your brand and products. 

January 2019

Green Owl Toys ran a Toy Project with the Year 1 students at Northampton University. The awards were given to 3 categories: Marketability, Play Value and Innovation.

December 2018

We are supporting Barnados Charity by purchasing their Christmas cards to send to our customers.

November 2018

We teamed up with Access Storage Charity run in Orpington who make a special appeal to donate toys. The toys were donated to a local Bromley Charity: Brighter Beginnings.

October 2018

Green Owl Toys gave prizes to the best fancy dress on the Demelza Childrens Hospice Pumpkin Hunts across Kent. We had our own station in our local high Street, Chislehurst which was part of the Pumpkin hunts organised.  Well done to the winners who each got a prize each worth £55.

September 2018

We are delighted to announce we are now supplying the British Museum.  Our wooden weapons are among the British Museum toys.

August 2018

We love the BUBU hippo range. They are a cute selection of wooden wonders for little hands. There is hippo teether, rattle, rolling hippos, 3D puzzle and a few hippo push alongs. This is a myriad toys from our toy kingdom.

July 2018

We loved visiting the Battle of Bannockburn centre which is part of the National Trust for Scotland.  They have some beautiful products including our crossbows. They also have an interesting side room where you can touch and try on the real armoury and tabards.

June 2018

We like to keep things fresh with new designs and new colours.  So we gave our website a new look. 

May 2018

This is a wonderful show where the right type of people attend and show their interest in your products. Because of this, we were able to meet some interesting people from popular attractions. The atmosphere is friendly and open. The talks are interesting and appeals to many departments.

April 2018

Primary Colours in Lyme Regis is stocking our lovely Pelican, rainbow stacker and BUBU range.

March 2018

We are proud to be supplying the very popular Culzean Castle in Scotland.  It has a something for everyone; history, pebble beach, great grounds, coffee shop and the well stocked gift shop.

February 2018

This year we presented our very own new toys, the new toy line, BUBU and our fun swords and shields. All in one place.  Our new and old customers liked the new additions to our range.

January 2018

We love visiting the International fairs. We get to see all the gorgeous new ideas and new potential suppliers.

December 2017

We have created our own product, the wooden rainbow with 7 arches. We love this little toy which is bringing a lot of joy to many children around the country.

November 2017

Arundel castle is one of the most majestic castles of the UK. We are proud to be supplying them our swords and shields.  And in particular our red and white Dragon shield.

October 2017

We had the pleasure of meeting with the Buyer of toys from The White Company in Derry Street again. It's always an inspiring meeting as you get to see the beautiful offices and understand the next challenges of the buyers have for the next season.

September 2017

There is a new wooden educational toy range in the UK.  It is distributed by "Classic wood of ELON" and we have the pleasure of being their first agent.

August 2017

Next month we are moving to our new premises. This month is all about the preparation for the big move. The new office is fresh, light and spacious.

July 2017

We found a new toy line that we absolutely love.  The designer is called BUBU concept and their first line is a range of beautiful hippos.

June 2017

Add News St​We love visiting the Bajo factory in the south of Poland. They have a great meeting room which has all the new products out on display. The shelves found in that room also hold toys that they have made but feel it doesn't tick all the Bajo boxes. Really exciting.ory here

May 2017

The Gruffalo brand meeting was held in Chessington World of Adventures. What a great venue for a meeting - there where the Gruffalo ride is and we all had a chance to see our products in their dedicated store.

April 2017

Bodiam Castle now stocks some of our swords and shields. We are excited about their new range they have in their Gift Shop.

March 2017

We exhibited some new Bajo wooden toys at the Spring Fair held in the NEC, Birmingham.  We also brought out some new swords and shields at the fair which everyone loved.

February 2017

We are on the look out for new products and new designs in the international market. We visited the Nuremberg Toy fair on our research quest.

January 2017

One of our new products for 2017 is a Knights Tabard. Its made of 100% cotton and fits children from 2 to 8 years old.

December 2016

Whole Food Markets takes on Bajo’s beautiful rocking Motorbike. It’s a solid piece of wood beautifully carved into a classic motorbike for a toddler to rock on.

November 2016

We were advertised in The Hub Magazine distributed in Northampton.

October 2016

We visited the Branding Licensing Europe Fair in Olympia, London. There were many interesting brands including The Gruffalo! We love The Gruffalo.

September 2016

We were advertised in the Angels and Urchins magazine located and distributed in West London.

August 2016

July 2016

we are proud to be finalsts for the Bromley Business Awards 2016. This is the resut of a lot of hard work! 

We are finalists in the Entrepreneur of the year and The Green Award categories!

June 2016

Bajo are working on some new POS materals. We are working with them to bring some new marketing materials to your shop!

May 2016

We have been working on some new toy designs. One range is our charming UK keyrings as pictured!

5th April 2016

We had a photoshoot with Image Studios in Chislehurst! Everyone had great fun!

20th March 2016

Following some rebranding with @NugetDesign all of our products now come with one of these beautiful new swing tickets branded with our new logo! We think they look brilliant!

7th February 2016

We Exhibited at the NEC Fair, Birmingham, where we met the Gruffalo!

26th January 2016

Jojo Maman Bebe bought some of our beautiful BAJO toys, including the beautiful red rocking horse! 

http://www.jojomamanbebe.co.uk/sp+rocking-horse-wooden-toy-in-christening-and-new-baby-gifts+d4509

7 February 2016

Here is a photo of mums having fun with our kids wooden swords and shields. The same wooden swords and shields found on our stand at the Birmingham NEC Spring Fair. 

6 January 2016

We have designed and created some new wooden toys. They will be launched soon. 

These new gorgeous wooden toys needed matching beautiful packaging to be presented in.  Nugget Design in Chislehurst have come up with some great solutions. Our First step is to simplify logo our logo.  We love it!

December 2015

We buy our Business Christmas Cards from Child Aid.

November 2015

We held a wonderful Christmas shopping event upstairs in our local Coffee shop. It was lovely to meet our various customers. Merry Christmas everyone.

October 2015

Loved being able to feature in the Christmas Magazine.  The charming wooden Gruffalo toys need to be showed off a litte.  Its just too gorgeous!

September 2015

Our space requirements have changed and needed to upscale.  Its good to have a clean up and re-assessment too.

August 2015

We have been working on our web site for it to be better equipped with mobile technology. We have finally settled on a style!  We hope it will be live soon.

July 2015

We were very pleased that the Heritage Catalogue chose to write about us on their "Focus" page whose topic was "Creative and Educational" products.

June 2015

We were selected by ToyNews to help with SEN toys. The Gruffalo Theatre and the Bajo Pinguin toy were our top selections.

May 2015

We are proud to introduce our tomboy wooden toy range with a selection of a sword, shield and bow with arrows.

April 2015

Oliver Bonas made their first order of Bajo wooden toys.

March 2015

Peter Rabbit and Friends love Gruffalo toys (among many others) and now have added the charming wooden Gruffalo toy collection.

February 2015

We exhibited in the internationally known UK Trade Fair: NEC Spring Fair where we could talk about Bajo wooden toys and our range of fun Wooden swords and shields.

January 2015

We were interviewed by the Progressive Preschool magazine. A lovely experience.

November 2014

The Slow Toy Awards is not an easy award to be selected for. We entered and hoping for the best.

October 2014

Another celebration for Green Owl Toys as the Gruffalo wooden toys range have been nominated as one of five of the best!  The award is presented by the Trade magazine "Progressive Preschool".

September 2014

Green Owl Toys is celebrating the news of The Gruffalo wooden toys, made by Bajo to be a finalist in the” Best Licensed Toys and Games Range” given by The Licensing Awards. The Licensing Awards have really become accolades to strive for, their integrity is unquestioned as an endorsement of excellence

August 2014

We had the pleasure of visiting the Bajo Factory at the foot of the Carpathian Mountains in the south of Poland. We are talking about new lines for 2015 and Christmas orders. Fun times.

July 2014

Spent a school day with the 6ft Gruffalo in Red Hill Primary School where Key Stage 1 pupils met him.  We also did a Readathon of The Gruffalo book and 500 students reading the book in 30 minutes! Amazing!

Later we read The Gruffalo book with the Gruffalo at the 2gether shop in Chislehurst. There children received some Gruffalo goodie bags and viewed the New Wooden Gruffalo toys.

You can see more information on the Visit Chislehurst Spotlight page http://www.visitchislehurst.org.uk/spotlight/spotlight-green-owl-toys