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Lloyds TSB Corporate Markets to sponsor Charity Gala Preview
Lloyds TSB Corporate Markets is to sponsor the RHS Chelsea Flower Show Charity Gala Preview for the next two years. The Charity Gala Preview, which sold out within hours of tickets being put on sale in September, is attended by 5,000 corporate and high net worth guests, including chairmen and CEOs of FTSE 100 companies.
The partnership will help the RHS, the UK’s leading gardening charity, to fund work to help gardeners and advance horticulture through its gardens, events, education programmes and scientific research. Britain in Bloom, which encourages communities to create long-lasting improvements to their local environments, has been nominated as a beneficiary of this year’s Gala.
Inga Grimsey, Director General of the RHS said, “The Chelsea Charity Gala Preview has a proud tradition as a regular fixture in the City calendar. We are delighted to associate the event with a blue chip, highly regarded FTSE 100 company such as Lloyds TSB. The Gala sponsorship provides valuable additional income, which this year will help support one of our most important charitable initiatives, Britain in Bloom, which has more than 1,000 communities from across the UK taking part each year and is the largest horticultural campaign in the world.”
The Chelsea Charity Gala Preview takes place the Monday evening before the show opens to RHS members on Tuesday 22 May.