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Amateur gardeners can apply for funding to create a garden or an allotment for the benefit of their communities
The National Garden Scheme offers a bursary in memory of Elspeth Thompson who died in 2010. Administered by the RHS, it is intended to support community gardening projects aimed at bringing the community together by the sharing and acquiring of horticultural knowledge and skills, and by inspiring a love of gardening across all age groups.
Elspeth was an enthusiastic supporter of the National Garden Scheme, and wrote a much-loved Urban Gardener column in The Sunday Telegraph. Elspeth’s husband Frank said of her
‘She had a knack of seeing and creating beauty in unlikely places and was enthusiastic about those who gardened for the benefit of others’.
Applications for funding are considered in February each year, the closing date for applications is 31 December of the preceding year. No fixed amount is set but the maximum amount awarded would not normally exceed £5,000.
Completed forms must be submitted via email to ngsbursary@rhs.org.uk by 31 December.
Confederation of Indian Organisations - Leicester: Provision of poly tunnel and seating at Community Allotment Denbigh in Bloom - Denbigh N.Wales: Create a wildlife friendly garden close to approach to Denbigh Castle Frome Allotment Association - Frome, Somerset: Install a piped mains water supply at the allotment Grapes Hill Community Garden - Norwich, Norfolk: Create a communal grow area within the city garden GROW Community Garden - Loughton, Essex: Develop sensory garden area Lindengate - Wendover, Bucks: Enable gardeners to design and create garden features to their own specifications Mary Stevens' Park Growing Together - Stourbridge, W.Midlands: Expand into a new growing space 1st Ockford Ridge Rainbows - Godalming, Surrey: Regenerate area of land to enhance gardening programme of the Rainbow Unit Serenity Social & Therapeutic Horticulture - Killberby, Darlington: To create suitable area to run therapeutic horticultural project Shocklach Oviatt Primary School - Shocklah, Malpas, Cheshire: Enhancement of school vegetable garden Talgarth & District Regeneration Group - Talgarth, Powys: Extend current vegetable box planting and transform wasteland area Thames Ditton Station Group - Thames Ditton, Surrey: Provision of bee friendly planters
Please contact the RHS Bursaries on 01483 479719 or email at ngsbursary@rhs.org.uk
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