Project Giving Back is looking for UK based good causes to apply for funding for a garden at the 2023 RHS Chelsea Flower Show.
The grant-making scheme launched earlier this year in response to the Covid-19 pandemic and its effect on fundraising in the UK, and will fund gardens inspired by a range of good causes in 2022, 2023 and 2024.
Project Giving Back (PGB) will fund eight Show Gardens at RHS Chelsea Flower Show in 2022 (applications for 2022 are now closed) and six smaller gardens in a new category, All About Plants. In total, it will fund 42 gardens at the show from 2022 – 2024.
The RHS Chelsea Flower Show welcomes 168,000 visitors each year and reaches millions more through the RHS website, BBC programming and wider media coverage.
Hattie Ghaui, Project Director for PGB, said:
“We’re excited to be accepting expressions of interest for the 2023 show. Although it seems a long way off, we know how much preparation goes in to designing, planning and creating a first class garden for the RHS Chelsea Flower Show.
“We’re hoping our funding will give good causes who may not usually consider the show as a viable option for fundraising, the opportunity to take advantage of the incredible public exposure it offers.”
“We are already working with an incredible group of good causes and their partner designers for the 2022 show, and can’t wait to share more news of that in the new year.
“But for now, we are focused on supporting applicants for 2023 to think creatively about how Chelsea could form a major part of their marketing and fundraising strategy.”
Project Giving Back has been established with funding from two private individuals who are RHS Life Members and keen gardeners, and who wish to remain anonymous but to give a springboard to charitable organisations that, in the wake of the pandemic, need a hand to raise awareness and funds to continue their work.
Its advisory panel members, who are all volunteers, are: garden designer Arne Maynard;
CEO of Crocus and RHS Vice President Mark Fane; editor, curator and RHS Vice President Rosie Atkins; and Alex Denman, horticulturist and former RHS Chelsea Flower Show manager.Expressions of interest can be made online at the Project Giving Back website. The deadline for submitting an initial application is 15 November 2021. Feedback will be offered to all applicants in early December and a long-list will be asked to submit further supporting documents and drawings.
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