We are thrilled to hear that we have received funding from the government’s #CultureRecoveryFund! This will mean that the Gardens Trust will have a level of financial security through the winter to enable us to continue to look after the Gardens and make them open for the pleasure, leisure, health and wellbeing of all our…
The Gardens are re-opening! Starting with 2 special weekends for Members Only: 6th/7th and 13th/14th June. Opening to the general public will start on Wednesday 17th June (Wednesdays to Sundays). We are really pleased to be able to welcome people back into the Gardens again. We know spirits will be lifted by a wander –…
Thanks to our lovely supporters we have hit, and exceeded, our target to ensure we can buy our spring bulbs next year! Whoopee! That really is a great relief to our gardeners, who are always thinking seasons and seasons ahead. Your help now, and in the future, really will make a difference to the Gardens’…
Our specialist insurers, Ecclesiastical, aren’t just a financial institution, their charitable purposes are written into their very constitution; a ‘Movement for Good’. This year they are distributing £1million to good causes. We would love to be one of them. As a Charitable Trust the Gardens are dependent on visitor income and grants. Closure this spring…
Being a Member of the Gardens has always been ‘a worthwhile thing’. Not only do you get free entry all year round to see and explore the changing seasons in the historic Gardens there is also a raft of other new benefits, like exclusive summer early evening openings, tea/coffee vouchers and day passes to share…
Our beautiful tulips and flowers are blooming away in the Gardens – with only the songbirds to see them. Everyone will be hit hard this year, one way or another. But gardening is always about investing in hope for the future. Although we cannot share our signature displays of tulips and blossoms this year, we…
[update: We are overwhelmed by the positive support and reaction of the public to this act of vandalism in the Gardens. we are grateful to everyone for their good wishes and take heart in knwoing that what we are trying to do pleases so many people. We are busy prparng for our big 40s event…
Nearly time again for our amazingly popular low-tech family fun day. Skittles, sack races, hopscotch and egg and spoon races bring three – or more – generations together this Thursday (11-3.30pm). We run this event every year in conjunction with the local branch of the U3A (University of the 3rd Age) as a fundraiser for…
Those baroque Garden designers always emphasised bold theatricality in their layouts. Although we are certainly not on the grand scale of Versailles or the Royal Palaces, our ‘wilderness’ areas, boxed beds and topiary are all part of that formality and dramatic approach. We’re all the more pleased therefore, to be able to host both theatrical…
The Gardens Trust here is run almost entirely by volunteers, who gift over 10,000 hours of their time per year to keep the Gardens trim. They run the education, family and wildlife activities and support the survival of the charity by running the café, shop and holding fundraising events. It costs the equivalent of £900…