National Flower Arranging Day and Lonely Bouquet Day
Friday 1st May

There’s no better way to say it than with flowers. Which is exactly why NAFAS (The National Association of Flower Arrangement Societies) is using beautiful little bunches to spread some love around the UK on National Flower Arranging Day (Friday 1^st May 2015). The charity plans to distribute over 60,000 bouquets across the UK embracing the ‘Lonely Bouquet’ concept for the second year in a row.

The ‘Lonely Bouquet’ is a kind of goodwill gesture that involves leaving a bouquet in a public place to be picked up by an unsuspecting passerby. The motivation behind this anonymous act of kindness is simply to bring a smile to someone’s face.  Last year, NAFAS embraced the ‘Lonely Bouquet’ concept for the very first time and distributed thousands of bouquets across the UK. The feedback was outstanding.

NAFAS hopes that by promoting the ‘Lonely Bouquet’ concept it can, in turn, promote the flower industry itself and attract new members to join their local NAFAS flower club. NAFAS members will again distribute mystery bunches of blooms across the UK.  Flowers will be placed every-where, from park benches and shop doorsteps, to well-known landmarks and surprise locations. NAFAS hope that these small posies will find a home and brighten somebody’s day.

The random act of kindness initiative dubbed the ‘Lonely Bouquet’ was the brainchild of a young florist in Belgium named Emily Avenso, who blogged about the idea after leaving flowers for strangers over two years ago. The idea went viral and ‘Lonely Bouquets’ have been distributed across the globe ever since.