News

New Aardman Characters from Steiff

Let us introduce you to Gromit and the Shaun the Sheep ornament, two famous Aardman characters just launched by Steiff as new limited edition pieces. Aardman celebrate their 40th anniversary this year.

Both characters are limited to 1976 pieces and are already proving to be popular. Delivery of both of these limited editions will start later this year, but we are taking orders now.

Guildford Independents' Month 2016 Golden Ticket Selfie Competition!

July is Guildford Independent's Month and we are a small but proud indie business of nearly 24 years.
To celebrate we will be having a selfie competition in store to win a Steiff limited edition Willy Wonka. Take a selfie in front of our window and share on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram using #bggoldenticket for your chance to win! Winner to be announced 1st August 2016! 

And for our online customers we will at random be sending out 5 golden tickets entitling the lucky recipient to a 25% discount on their next bear adoption!

Bank Holiday and Half-Term Opening Hours

Bank Holiday and Half-Term Opening Hours

• Bank Holiday Monday: Closed
• Tuesday 31st May: 10am - 5pm
• Wednesday 1st June: Closed
• Thursday 2nd June: 10am – 5pm
• Friday 3rd June: 10am – 5pm

Apologies for any inconvenience caused!

Wapikka teddy bears now at The Bear Garden

We are very pleased to now be stocking Wapikka teddy bears at the Bear Garden! Wapikka is a new British teddy bear brand on a mission to feed some of the world's most hungry, deprived school children.
Every time someone buys a Wapikka bear they feed a child for a full school year in Malawi, East Africa.

Summer Trip 2016 - 1st - 5th July

Opening times over Christmas and New Year

Christmas Eve: 11am – 4pm

Christmas Day: CLOSED
Boxing Day: CLOSED

Sunday opening for Christmas

Starting on Sunday 15th November, we will be open every Sunday on the run up to Christmas!

Our Christmas opening hours are 11am-4pm.

We look forward to seeing some of you then!

Celebrate Charlie Bears' 10th Birthday with us!

On Saturday 14th November we will be celebrating 10 years of Charlie Bears with a party in the shop!

Customer Service Awards 2015

Great news! We have been short-listed in the Customer Service Awards 2015 in the category Best Customer Service - Retail (Independent). This means that we will now get secret shopped. Fingers crossed that we can retain our title from the last two years. The pressure is on!  

Thank you so much to everyone who voted for us and got us this far!

Steiff's autumn/winter range starts to arrive!

Well, certainly the first item has arrived, which is the gorgeous mouse limited edition piece.  Pretty gorgeous we reckon!