News about Green Owl Toys

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.