Trusts & Foundations

Our supporters are helping us protect our plant diversity for the future 

Many of our unique garden plants are disappearing, due to climate change, emerging pests and diseases, loss of horticultural skills and changing fashions. Our supporters help ensure the cultivated plants we grow now will be available to future generations for cultural, medical, culinary and aesthetic use, helping us to adapt to the challenges of climate change. As a tiny team of staff, supported by dedicated volunteers, all donations we receive, no matter how small, make a vital difference to our work.  

We would like to thank the following trusts who are currently supporting us: Swire Charitable Trust, Hawthorne Charitable Trust, Goulburn Charitable Trust, Sir Jeremiah Colman Gift Trust, Mrs AA Clutterbuck Charitable Trust, Alfred Williams Charitable Trust, the RHS Bursaries Fund, William Dean Countryside and Educational Trust, the Jack Patston Charitable Trust, the Simon Gibson Charitable Trust and the PF Charitable Trust. 

How your support could help:

• Reduce the number of plant collections and plants at risk from climate change and biodiversity loss by identifying the cultivars most in need of conservation through the Threatened Plants Programme.
• Safeguard our cultivated plant heritage for future generations by ensuring succession plans are in place for all National Plant Collections  - a huge resource for gardeners, nurserymen, garden designers, researchers, plant breeders and those interested in historical gardens and landscapes for scientific research and as a source of live plants and genetic material.
• Raise awareness of key groups of plants that are not represented in the National Plant Collections through campaigns such as the Missing Genera Campaign
• Encourage people to take part in conservation work by growing rare plants in their own gardens, allotments or on a windowsill through the Plant Guardians scheme, which now covers over 2,200 rare and unusual plants.
• Develop new community collections between groups of individuals and organisations where plants are held in multiple locations as insurance against loss.
• Help to expand our work with horticultural students and younger gardeners, who are vital for the future sustainability of the National Collections.  

Get in touch

If you have a charitable trust or are involved with a charitable grant-giver we would love to work with you. Please get in touch with Alicia on fundraising@plantheritage.org.uk.