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The British Toy & Hobby Association’s annual Toy Industry Day will this year feature as a speaker Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson DBE, Britain’s best-known and greatest Paralympic athlete, a BBC Sports Personality of the Year and holder of the OBE and DBE. Despite being born with spina bifida, Grey-Thompson has won …
Read More »Toy Trust’s 2022 Big Challenge set to make a splash on June 18
The Toy Trust’s 2022 Big Challenge fundraising day for summer 2022 has been confirmed for Saturday 18 June and will be based at Oxford Wet N Wild in Wallingford, Oxfordshire. An alternative ‘wet n weird’ triathlon featuring a 5km/10km walk or run or 50km circular cycling event taking in the …
Read More »The Toy Trust spreads much-needed cheer
The Toy Trust, the charity founded by the British Toy & Hobby Association to help disabled and disadvantaged children, has released details of some of its latest charity initiatives, made possible thanks to the generous support of the UK toy industry. Friends of ‘Holcot’ The Toy Trust supported this well-run …
Read More »The annual Toy Trust Media Auction secures £105,000 at Toy Fair 2020
The annual Toy Trust Media Auction has secured an impressive £105,000 in money raised for the industry charity, the second largest total the initiative has ever achieved. The annual auction itself is the second largest fundraising activity for the Toy Trust each year, and this year, saw airtime and printed …
Read More »Foye Pascoe named BTHA chair and Jeff Taylor celebrated at BTHA Industry Day
Members of the industry gathered at the Great Fosters Hotel in Surrey to recognise the contributions made by Taylor that, over the past nine years, have totalled £407,000.
Read More »BTHA stalwart Natasha Crookes takes up role with Toy Retailers Association
Crookes will step into an administration role as she replaces TRA veteran Derek Markie
Read More »The BTHA teams with Fundamentally Children for new Toys as the Tools of Play initiative
It's an extension of the association’s Make Time 2 Play campaign and will help companies identify the play benefits of their products for children’s development.
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