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From how we look after wildlife on our farms through our partnership with The Wildlife Trusts, to how we grow the scrumptious blackcurrants that go into your Ribena squash, and ideas for using Ribena products and berries in recipes; you’ll find it all here.

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The berries are back in a brand new adventure! Take a look at the new Ribena TV advert for the tasty Ribena Plus drinks. With no added sugar and a variety of yummy flavours to choose from, we hope you’ll love the new range, which includes Ribena Plus with vitamins for immunity support and Ribena Plus with calcium for healthy bones.

Will the berries make it to safety as they face dangers including hungry squirrels and pesky woodpeckers? Watch and find out!

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Have you tried the new Ribena Plus range yet? With no added sugar and lots of yummy flavours to choose from, including blackcurrant, raspberry and apple, mixed berries and apple and peach, we think you’ll like it!

There’s Ribena Plus with vitamins A and C to help support immunity and Ribena Plus with calcium for healthy bones. The only question is, which flavour to try first!

While you’re pondering, have a look at the loveable berries, back on TV in an exciting new Ribena Plus advert.

Make sure you’re kept in the know with all that’s going on in the world of Ribena: like Ribena on Facebook and follow us on Twitter @RibenaUK.

We promised you our Ribena Plus Play Report findings would be revealed today, and we’ve included some of them here for you to see!

The Ribena Team, a group of play experts and over 2,000 parents revealed in the Ribena Plus Play Report that:

• 92% of parents believe that imaginary play is important but 16% don’t know how to create it with their child
• Only 32% of kids still play with household items, but 70% play on video games while nine in ten watch DVDs
• 30% of parents ‘feel under pressure to be fun’
• One in seven parents say they ‘don’t know what they’re doing when they are playing with their kids’

So do you agree with what parents are feeling about play and need some ideas yourself?

Download our tips from The Ribena Team for fun play activities that you and your kids can do together from great days out, unique artwork for your home and even theatrical shows they can put on for you in your living room.

All you have to do is click here to get started and we’d love to hear about your ideas for play too! Drop us a line in the comments section or on Facebook or on Twitter.

The Ribena Team has been busy looking at a really important part of family life – play. We love play here at Ribena HQ and think it should be free, open and above all fun! So this week we’ll be launching our Ribena Plus Exploration PlayLab, to champion exploratory, imaginative and creative play that’s fun for all the family.

This is a unique play area to get parents reconnecting with play and showing everyone how easy and fun it can be. You can even win a chance to come along – take a visit to @RibenaUK on Twitter to find out how.

We’ve also commissioned a new report – the Ribena Plus Play Report – to look into how families across the UK are playing and will be revealing our fascinating findings this Friday 13th April, so keep an eye out for them.

Also stay tuned for some helpful ideas on how to create exploratory play with your children at home. They’ll be on the blog from Friday so visit us again soon!

It’s breakfast time down on the Ribena farm and our stomachs are rumbling… Time to whip up a tasty Ribena-flavoured breakfast smoothie!

The Ribena Team will be sharing our love of blackcurrants with you over the coming months by bringing you lots of tips, recipes and info on our favourite little fruit.

But now, to make your breakfast smoothie you will need:

•    30g fresh or frozen blackcurrants (make sure they are thawed)
•    80ml natural yoghurt
•    75ml Ribena Blackcurrant squash
•    2 teaspoons mashed mango
•    10ml honey
•    10g mixed spelt flakes / oats (5g each type, crushed to a coarse sawdust texture)

Press the blackcurrants through a sieve and add the juice to all the other ingredients apart from the grains. Whizz together and add your oats or spelt at the end.

Finally, enjoy!

Make sure you let us how know how your recipes turn out if you give them a go, by dropping us a line in the comments section.

For some more recipe inspiration, why not visit our friends at The Blackcurrant Foundation.