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20.10.2023 - 15:01 / theenglishgarden.co.uk / Niamh Collins
Project Giving Back has announced that it will be continuing its support of gardens for good causes at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show in 2025 and 2026. Speaking at the opening of the 2023 Gardens For Good Causes Exhibition at the Garden Museum in London, Project Giving Back’s CEO, Hattie Ghaui, said: “I am thrilled to confirm we will be supporting even more gardens for good causes at RHS Chelsea Flower Show until 2026. As we move into our third year of funding, it feels like PGB is still in its adolescent years and we wanted to give it time to mature into adulthood. We know from having to turn down some incredibly strong funding applications over the past couple of years that there are so many wonderful stories waiting to be told. We’re all excited to see how the creativity of charities, designers and wider garden teams continues to unfold and look forward to welcoming more partnerships into the PGB family.”
The success of the scheme, including raising over £40K for St Mungo’s in direct response to the RHS Chelsea garden and the £800K+ that has been raised by RNLI at one of their After Hours events, has inspired PGB’s anonymous Founders to commit to a further two years of funding, with an extended target of supporting 60 gardens.
The Blue Peter Garden by Juliet Sargeant. Photo: Jayne Lloyd
How did Project Giving Back come about?
“Our two private founders and the panel of trustees came up with the idea during the lockdown at the start of 2021. They’d just heard that Chelsea Flower Show was going to be postponed again and had been reading about the negative impact of the national lockdowns on charities. In Project Giving Back they saw an opportunity to support the RHS while giving UK charities the opportunity to bounce back
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