Despite being the smallest area of NAFAS, Dorset & Guernsey Area is a thriving, active group of eighteen flower clubs. Our clubs offer plenty of variety and whatever your preference, there is a club waiting to offer you a warm welcome with fun friendship and flowers. Club programmes are tailored to suit their membership and they aim to encourage members from beginners to those at the highest level.
Dorset & Guernsey members have a keen interest in all aspects of floral design, exhibiting at their own Area Show or at flower festivals, in country houses, churches, wherever they can share their passion for flowers. Our members also regularly compete at the NAFAS National Show, at RHS Chelsea Flower Show and at RHS Malvern Spring Festival, where groups and individuals have achieved the highest awards. We were thrilled to be invited to send a team to stage NAFAS’s showpiece exhibit in the floral marquee at RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2017. We were even more thrilled that the team came away with a GOLD medal for their exhibit “A Walk Through Time” which traced the history of the Jurassic Coast.
Although Dorset & Guernsey only became NAFAS’s 19th Area in 1970 (it was originally part of South & West Area) it is immensely proud of its long tradition in the world of floral design. Dorchester was the home of the Founder President of NAFAS, Mary Pope, and where she started The Dorchester Floral Decoration Society in the early 1950’s. This pioneered the way and led to the creation of our association, NAFAS.
- Visit Website Dorset & Guernsey Website
- ChairmanSylvia Preston
- SecretarySheila Bendall
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Contact
sheila.bendall@hotmail.co.uk
Club Directory
Bere Regis Floral Group
- 2nd Tuesday at 2.00 pm (Not August)
- Village Hall, North Street, Winterborne Kingston Blandford DT11 9AZ
Blandford & District Floral Group
- 1st Monday of each month at 2.00pm
- Anne Biddlecombe Hall, Tarrant Keyneston DT11 9JE
Broadstone & Corfe Mullen Floral Decoration Society
- 3rd Tuesday at 2pm
- British Legion, 76a Blandford Road, Corfe Mullen, Wimborne BH21 3HQ
Colehill Floral Arrangement Club
- 3rd Monday at 7.30pm
- Memorial Hall, Cannon Hill Road, Colehill, Wimborne BH21 2LS
Dorchester Floral Group
- 2nd Monday of each month except August from 6.30pm-8.30pm
- Dorset Youth Association Hall, Lubbecke Way, Dorchester, DT1 1QL
Gillingham Flower Club
- 1st Tuesday at 7.30 pm
- The Vicarage School Room, Queen Street, Gillingham, Dorset SP8 4AJ
Guernsey Flower Arrangement Society
- 1st Wed at 7.30 pm
- Les Cotils, St Peter Port, GY1 1UU
Lytchett Minster & Upton Floral Group
- 1st Wednesday at 2.30pm
- c/Js Lytchett Minster Parish Church, Dorchester Road, Lytchett Minster BH16 6JE
Owermoigne Flower Club
- 3rd Tuesday at 2pm
- Owermoigne Village Hall Pollards Lane Owermoigne Dorchester DT2 8XD
Parkstone Floral Decoration Society
- 3rd Thursday at 1.45pm
- St Luke's Church Hall, Birchwood Road Parkstone BH14 9NW
Purbeck Flower Club
- 3rd Thursday at 2.15 pm
- Mowlem Theatre Committee Room, Mowlem Theatre, Shore Road Swanage BH19 1DD
Shaftesbury Flower Arranging Group
- 3rd Monday at 7.30 pm
- Town Hall (Unless otherwise stated)High Street, Shaftesbury SP7 8JE
Sherborne Floral Evening Group
- 4th Thursday at 7.30 pm
- The Digby Hall, Hound Street, Sherborne DT9 3AA
Sturminster Newton Floral Group
- 2nd Wednesday at 7.30 pm
- The Exchange, Old Market Hill, Sturminster Newton Dorset DT10 1FH
Verwood Flower Club
- 1st Tuesday at 7.30 pm
- Verwood Memorial Hall, Ringwood Road, Verwood BH31 7AA
West Dorset Flower Club, Bridport
- 2nd Monday at 2.30 pm
- WI Hall, North Street Bridport DT6 3JQ
West Moors Flower Group
- 3rd Wednesday at 10 am
- West Moors Memorial Hall, 231 Station Road, West Moors, Ferndown Dorset BH22 0HZ
Weymouth Floral Design Group
- 3rd Thursday at 7.30pm
- Holy Trinity School Hall, Cross Road, Weymouth DT4 9QX