June 7, 2023
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June 7, 2023
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The garden has been temporarily relocated to Exbury Gardens in Hampshire.
The garden will be repurposed to St Margaret’s House in Bethnal Green - a centre for arts and wellbeing opportunities, working with communities and charities to come together to promote positive social change.
The Choose Love Garden has been relocated to Good Food Matters, a remarkable community kitchen and garden in Croydon and one of Choose Love’s partners in the UK.
Sadler’s Wells partners with a number of schools and colleges in north and east London to help embed arts-inspired activities into the school day. One of these is School 21 in Stratford, just 15 minutes’ walk from Sadler’s Wells East.
The garden has now been reimagined into two sensory pocket gardens and relocated to two schools - Alec Reed Academy in Ealing, West London and The Beacon Church of England Primary School in Liverpool.
The Panathlon Joy Garden highlights the importance of grassroots sporting opportunities for children with disabilities and special educational needs.
The Bowel Research UK Microbiome Garden draws inspiration from medical and botanical research, exploring the fascinating connection between a healthy landscape, a healthy gut, and a healthy mind.
The garden is an edible skatepark landscape inspired by the joy of playing, cultivating and growing together.
Muscular Dystrophy UK Forest Bathing Garden is a sanctuary for those affected by a muscle wasting condition.
The garden exemplifies the joy and associated health and wellbeing benefits of garden visiting that have been at the heart of the National Garden Scheme since 1927.
The garden reflects Pulp Friction's mission to challenge perceptions of people with learning disabilities and demonstrates the power of inclusivity through gardening.
The Size of Wales Garden is inspired by the abundance and rich biodiversity of plant life in tropical forests, while commenting on the devastating consequences of deforestation.
The show garden celebrates the restorative power of green spaces in cities, illustrating a sense of hope and recovery and inspiring future generations to 'imagine the world to be different'.
The Sue Ryder Grief Kind Garden provides a safe and peaceful sanctuary to sit within the beauty of nature and take a moment of quiet reflection
the garden will take visitors on a journey from the death and fear of the 1980s through to today where we’re on a mission to end new HIV cases by 2030.
Designed as a sensory haven, this garden brings joy, hope and escapism through nature for children undergoing cancer treatment, no matter where they live in the world.
The WaterAid Garden harnesses the power of rainwater and highlights the importance of sustainable water management to combat the effects of climate change.
The Freedom from Torture Garden: A Sanctuary for Survivors is a place of sanctuary, of peace and hope where horticultural therapy calms, heals and restores survivors of torture on their journey to recovery.
Designed by Miria Harris, herself a stroke survivor, the garden has been shaped by her story and the stories of other survivors. The garden is designed as a peaceful, sensory space for recovery.
The National Autistic Society Garden will provide dedicated spaces to the different kinds of relationships in our lives - at work, with friends and family, with partners, or by ourselves.
In 2023, Project Giving Back sponsored 15 gardens for good causes at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show and in their relocated and repurposed homes.
The Mind Garden has been rebuilt at Mind in Furness, Cumbria, a local Mind centre that provides mental health, support, including eco-therapy. Plants from the show garden have also been donated to a further 11 Mind centres across England.
The garden has been relocated to the Alder Hey Children's Hospital as a permanent feature that is open to the public.
The garden has been relocated to Lindengate charity, a nature based health and wellbeing charity with a six acre teaching garden in Wendover, Buckinghamshire, where it can be enjoyed by anyone visiting the garden, and is used by the charity as a teaching and learning space.
Following its larger than life reveal at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2022, the RAF Benevolent Fund ‘Strongest Link’ Garden has been rebuilt for a larger site at Biggin Hill Airport, where it forms part of the popular Battle of Britain Museum history trail. The watchful airman will welcome visitors to the airport for many years to come and the garden is accessible to everyone who would like a peaceful moment of reflection during their visit.
The RHS Chelsea Flower Show is a unique opportunity for charities to raise awareness of and support for their work at the world’s most famous horticultural event.
RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2023 - Day Two highlights on the gardens for good causes
2023 RHS Chelsea Flower Show - Featuring special visitors on the PGB Gardens for Good Causes.
A brief look at the 15 gardens for good causes funded by Project Giving Back at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2023.
This textured sensory garden focuses on the connection between nature and health and well-being. The garden is designed with minimal hard-landscaping and places a focus on natural materials sourced from the locality of the site. The calming colour palette will help create a peaceful, tranquil natural haven to be enjoyed by Aspens’ community.
The Royal Entomological Society Garden has been designed to show every person how remarkable and valuable insects are, and how important people can be to insects in the choices they make and the way that they garden. The garden will provide an inspiring place in which insects can be studied, researched and observed in a beautiful and natural environment.
The Centrepoint Garden explores the notion of home and celebrates the charity’s work in supporting young people facing homelessness. The evocative design offers a metaphor for the challenges faced by young people when their world becomes uprooted and fragmented and highlights how Centrepoint offers a healing process, supporting and nurturing young people, to enable them to grow and realise their potential.
The Choose Love Garden is inspired by refugee migration routes across Europe and the concept of desire lines - paths we create where no formal routes exist. The design reflects the relationship between movement and permanence - travel and home.
The Myeloma UK Garden – ‘A Life Worth Living’ highlights the work of the charity, which in 2023 celebrates its 25th anniversary. Myeloma UK is the only UK organisation dealing exclusively with myeloma, a blood cancer for which the charity’s ultimate goal is to find a cure.
This garden is a contemporary interpretation of a wildlife sanctuary, inspired by native woodlands and the rehabilitation of wild animals that forms part of the RSPCA’s vital welfare work. Created using a fusion of natural, sustainable and recycled materials, it demonstrates how we can have a positive impact on biodiversity and live as part of the natural environment.
The garden celebrates the life-changing impact listening can have by taking visitors on a symbolic journey from the hugely challenging situations many people find themselves in when they reach out to Samaritans, to the comforting support of speaking to a volunteer. In 2023, Samaritans marks its 70th anniversary of being there for people who desperately need someone.
Championing the positive power of plants to improve lives, the garden represents a child's imagination as it blossoms in response to the freedom gifted by art therapy. Through this escape into art, children find coping strategies to deal with life.
The garden is a celebration of the creative arts and their therapeutic power to restore lives. It is a planted canvas; a living installation that speaks of restoration through creativity.
Horatio’s Garden at RHS Chelsea Flower Show is a garden of sanctuary and hope. It embraces the mission of Horatio’s Garden charity to create and nurture beautiful, accessible and sustainable gardens in spinal centres for everyone affected by life-changing spinal injuries.
Collaborating with School Food Matters means one thing - putting children at the heart of the design. The garden is an immersive, forageable and naturalistic landscape where children can explore nature and be inspired by a diverse range of edible, climate-adapted plants.
The Sadler’s Wells East Garden celebrates the next generation of dancers and appreciators of dance. It provides a platform to raise awareness of Sadler’s Wells East: a new theatre, Hip Hop Theatre Academy and Choreographic School, opening at East Bank, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in early 2024.
Embracing the authentic character of the local area and encouraging a sense of local pride, light touch and stewardship, the garden welcomes an inclusive multicultural community with space for social engagement and solitary contemplation.
Introducing The National Brain Appeal’s ‘Rare Space’ Sanctuary Garden at 2023's #RHSChelsea Flower Show, designed by Charlie Hawkes.
In November 2022, PGB CEO, Hattie Ghaui spoke with Janet Cooper, Deputy Chair of Trustees at RNLI; Faris Khalifa, Media Volunteer at Mind; Jo Roberts, CEO of Wilderness Foundation UK and Ben Eden-Davies, Head of Individual Giving at St Mungo's on how each charity made the best of their opportunity at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show.
A brief look at the 12 gardens for good causes funded by Project Giving Back at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2022.
The inspiration for the garden is the incredible abundance, diversity and beauty that arises from the presence that the now re-introduced beaver brings to the British landscape.
This garden aims to raise awareness of the profound impact that social and environmental injustice can have on local communities, as well as the wider world.
The New Blue Peter Garden invites everyone to discover soil and the vital role it plays in our ecosystems. The key message of the garden is "Don’t treat soil like dirt! It’s complex and alive - we couldn’t survive without it.
This urban pocket park is designed as an inclusive place bringing people and plants together.
The garden reflects Core Arts’ mission to support people experiencing mental health difficulties by promoting social inclusion and reconnecting individuals with their communities.
This garden is a garden for mothers and represents a place of transition: from despair to hope.
This garden is an attempt to re-establish the connection between plants and fashion.
A young pilot looks nervously up at the sky, watching dogfights unfold overhead, waiting for the call to return to his spitfire and to the battle – the Battle of Britain.
A space to inspire us to connect with each other for our mental health, now and into the future.
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