The Royal Horticultural Society nominated for 6 awards at the 2023 Brand & Lifestyle Licensing Awards

The Royal Horticultural Society has received six nominations at the 2023 Brand & Lifestyle Licensing Awards (B&LLAs), once again proving the strength of our diverse and highly innovative licensing campaign.

The nominees are Harrogate Tipple Ltd for their delicious small batch RHS Spirits for Gardeners (Food and Beverage category); Dexam for their Benary Vegetables range of colourful kitchenware (Homewares, Kitchen & Tabletop), Sofas & Stuff for their fabrics enhancing soft furnishing (Home Décor), and Danilo Promotions Ltd for their RHS Calendar and Diary Range (Gifting). Dexam also scored a nomination in the brand-new Sustainability category with the environmentally friendly I Bug You kids’ kitchenware collection. And finally, for the eighth year running, the RHS itself has been shortlisted in the Heritage Brand category.

Our thanks to the judges and the organisers of the B&LLAs. We’re thrilled for both our licensees and our own licensing team – and looking forward to seeing everyone at the main event on 27 April!

Meet the nominees

Sofas & Stuff

The RHS 22 Fabric Collection in partnership with Sofas & Stuff Ltd, a creator of beautiful British bespoke furniture and fabrics, is a stunning addition to any home. So it's no surprise that it bagged a nomination for the Home Décor category!

The designs are based on the RHS Lindley Collections, the world’s finest collection of botanical art. They have been adapted for fabrics that can be used across any of the Sofas & Stuff range of British handmade bespoke sofas, chairs, beds, footstools and cushions – or purchased as fabrics for curtains and blinds or other soft furnishing projects. A winning idea? We certainly hope so!

Harrogate Tipple

We’re raising a glass to celebrate the nomination of the RHS Spirits for Gardeners range in the Food and Beverage category.

Harrogate Tipple, a small, traditional British distillery, has created this marvellous selection of RHS-branded spirits including premium gin, whisky and rum, in beautiful bottles with amazing labels based on unique RHS-supplied botanical art.

In true craft producer style, this family-run, small batch distillery based in North Yorkshire keeps all its ingredients as local as possible, though you can (and should) track the result down in a number of retailers throughout the UK.

Dexam I Bug You

In 2022 the Royal Horticultural Society launched a children’s kitchenware collection with a strong focus on sustainability alongside Dexam, a specialist supplier of kitchen cookware, bakeware and accessories. In fact the range has been specifically designed with the environment in mind. And we’re not the only ones who are saying that - the I Bug You children’s collection has been nominated in the new Sustainability category.

Dexam Benary

What do you get when you combine superb kitchenware from Dexam, a specialist supplier of kitchen cookware, bakeware and accessories, with designs that take their inspiration from unique vegetable prints produced by renowned horticulturist and botanist Ernst Benary? You get the RHS-Dexam Benary Vegetables range. And you get a nomination in the Homewares, Kitchen & Tabletop category at the 2023 Brand & Lifestyle Licensing Awards!

Danilo

The RHS-Danilo Calendar and Diary Range has been shortlisted in the Gifting category. Another superb piece of teamwork, this range brings together beautiful photographic and illustrative images with the expertise of the leading publisher of licensed calendars and diaries.

RHS Heritage

We’ve done it again! For the eighth year running the RHS has been shortlisted in the Heritage Brand category at the 2023 Brand & Lifestyle Licensing Awards. It’s a gratifying recognition of a small but totally committed licensing team that has worked wonders in recent years, bringing in over a million pounds in 2022 towards supporting the RHS's mission of inspiring everyone to grow. Wish us luck!