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Garden Centre Insurance
Cultivating your business with insurance designed and tailored specifically for garden centres and nurseries.
- Interest free instalments available over 12 months (subject to status)
- Cover for coffee shops and restaurants inside your garden centre
- UK-based support
Why choose garden centre insurance with Towergate?
First choice scheme
The preferred scheme for many of the UK’s garden centres and HTA members
The preferred scheme for many of the UK’s garden centres and HTA members
Get tailored and flexible cover specific to the garden centre trades
Interest free
Interest free instalments available over 12 months (subject to status)
Pay for your garden centre insurance by Direct Debit
Pay for your garden centre cover by Direct Debit
About garden centre insurance
Flexible garden centre insurance policies
Our garden centre insurance package can provide a wide range of property and liability covers, with flexible limits tailored to your horticultural business. Our bespoke product caters for mixed construction buildings including glasshouses, 24 month indemnity period for business interruption and full environmental liability cover. Full policy summary and wording available upon request.
Automatically included
We automatically include £7,500 target stock and up to £5000 of refrigerated or frozen stock free of charge. Property out in the open, including stock, is covered up to £500 for any item against fire, lightning, aircraft, explosion and theft, as standard on all our policies.
Tailored for you
We recognise that each garden centre has unique horticultural insurance requirements and we can extend our policy to incorporate cover for additional activities including cafés and restaurants, playground areas and landscaping services as well as liability towards concessions or other businesses trading from your premises.
Seasonal fluctuations
The very nature of your business means that some times of the year you’re exceptionally busy, so we have incorporated an automatic 25% increase to your stock free of charge during the months of November, December and January and 6 weeks either side of any UK Bank Holiday. So, during the busiest times, you’ve one less thing to think about.
When you need to make a claim, we'll guide you through the process and get your claim settled as quickly as possible.
- Find your insurance documents and make sure you have all your information at hand, including your policy number.
- Call the claims team on 01482 330 300 and explain exactly what happened.
- Provide photos if requested to help us understand what happened as quickly as we can.
Ready to get covered?
- Fill in our online quote form or call us
- Purchase your policy
- Relax - You're covered!
Garden Centre insurance FAQs
Yes! We can cover for many types of diversification. What’s more, we can update your policy as you grow too, so at any time, you can give us a call to make sure you’re covered, or increase, or decrease your cover as you need to.
We automatically include cover for a 25% increase in stock in November, December and January, and also around bank holidays. This does not cost you anything extra but simply means you can get on with running your business, and not have to worry during the times you’re most busy. For any other times, you can simply call to increase your sums insured limits as you need.
Work experience is a form of employment, and as such you are legally required to provide protection in the form of employers liability. Our insurance will cover all of your staff including unpaid, contracted and seasonal.
Absolutely. Public liability is one of the most important features of any business insurance. It protects your customers against injury or loss suffered due to your business, such as a slip or fall. You can learn more about it in our guide to public liability.
For details of the terms, exclusions and conditions applicable, please refer to the full policy documentation provided by Markel Direct which will be available during the quotation process.
To help you spread the cost of your premiums, you can choose to spread payment over ten months with the Markel quick and easy Direct Debit scheme.
See our range of cover
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