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The Alnwick Garden Trust

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The Alnwick Garden is more than a garden, it is a transformational cultural project. In a relatively short space of time, despite its early stage of capital development, The Garden has become recognised not only for contemporary gardening excellence but also as a project using its resources to provide real, measurable benefit to people.

The Alnwick Garden is managed by an independent registered charity - The Alnwick Garden Trust (Registration No. 1095435). The Trust is responsible for delivering clear charitable objectives, as well as capital fundraising and the development, management and maintenance of the project. It is also the body that holds the capital assets in trust, and, as a charity, is responsible for the Friends. The transformational impact of The Alnwick Garden Trust's objectives and activities are being felt nationally and internationally.

The Trust seeks to dramatically change for the better the cultural environment and help people transform their conceptions, expectations and aspirations and that of their communities through six key strands of activity; learning and skill development, access and activity addressing disability, play, healthy activity and wellbeing, experiences of the arts and economic renaissance. Spurred on by its phenomenal achievements to date, The Trust is moving forward to complete its vision.

Use the following downloads to read more about The Trust's six key strands.

Learning and skill development
Access and activity addressing disability
Play
Healthy activity and wellbeing
Experiences of the arts
Economic renaissance

The Alnwick Garden Trust has, so far, completed Phases One and Two of The Garden's development. You can read about these completed areas in About The Garden (link). Without Phase Three, The Garden still lacks essential elements in the overall vision that will make it a truly transformational cultural project of world-class standard, delivering real, measurable benefits to people. You can read about the areas still to come in About The Garden (link). Once fully complete, The Garden will be a place where visitors can enjoy stunning surroundings while learning more about themselves and their cultural environment. It is vital that we complete The Garden to become financially sustainable and allow the project to be experienced by generations to come.

The Trust has a policy to maximize accessibility to The Garden and therefore entry is kept low and cannot generate sufficient income to complete the development. Therefore to progress to Phase Three, we are completely reliant on fundraising campaigns. Various public sector bodies have committed their support, but this must be matched by private sector funders. We seek funds from the private sector and the charitable sector, including the Lottery, in order to complete a world-class garden that will stimulate, inspire and educate 364 days a year.

If you would like to get involved and be part of The Garden, you can help us in a number of ways:

. Become a Donor - ideal for trusts, corporate and individuals with giving plans
. Become a Friend - a treat for everyone
. Become a Supporter - help us with our appeal     for 20,000 plants
. Become a Volunteer - the hands on approach  

To make a donation now, download a Supporter Application Form. Print it off, fill it in and send to:

Fundraising Administrator,
The Alnwick Garden,
Denwick Lane,
Alnwick,
Northumberland
NE66 1YU

Use the following download to read more about The Alnwick Garden in development.

The Alnwick Garden at a glance.

The Alnwick Garden at a glance
View the following DVD which explains, in human terms, the transformational impact that The Garden is having.

Vision to Reality
"This project has huge vision, it's transforming a rural area and you get very few opportunities in a lifetime to make such a transformational impact on a rural economy".
Andrew Dixon, Chief Executive, Arts Council England, North East.

The Alnwick Garden Trust
Chairman: Dr John Bridge, Economist, Chairman of One NorthEast
Trustee: Her Grace, The Duchess of Northumberland
Trustee: Sir John Riddell, Lord Lieutenant of Northumberland
Trustee: Philip Deakin, Chairman of Alnwick Civic Society and of the North East Federation of Civic Societies
Trustee: Richard Middleton, Chartered Accountant

The Alnwick Garden would like to thank the following for their donations to The Alnwick Garden:

The Duke of Northumberland, ERDF, ONE North East, NSP, Friends of The Alnwick Garden, Joan & Margaret Halbert, The Barbour Trust, Northern Rock Foundation, The PF Charitable Foundation, The Garfield Weston Foundation, The Claire Bell Fund (Cal Comm F), The W A Handley Charitable Trust, The Hobson Charity, Northumberland College/Centre for Vocational Excellence, Heritage Lottery Fund, Pfizer, Van den Berk, Learning & Skills Council, Business Link, The William Leech Charitable Trust, Arts Council North East, Lord Leverhulme’s Charitable Trust, PBI Home & Garden Ltd, David Austin Roses, The Edward Cadbury Charitable Trust, The 1989 Willan Charitable Trust, The Wellcome Trust, The Banks Foundation, Aggregate Industries Plc, Jan Spryt, The Dulverton Trust, Sir James Knott Trust, Capital Research & Management Group, Lloyds TSB, Michael de Carvalho, Dennis Common Company, Arriva, Tolent Construction, John Deere/Greenlay,Trade Partners UK, Benfield Motors Charitable Trust, The McGrath Family Foundation, The Carr-Ellison Family Trust, The Carron Charitable Trust, The Roland Cookson Charitable Trust, The Vinson Charitable Trust, Hadrian Trust, Northern Electric, Peter Steel, Jobcentre Plus, W G Edwards Charitable Trust, Warner Brothers, The Mercers’ Company, Electric Mobility Euro Limited, Altonaids Mobility Ltd, Omega, The Hedley Denton Charitable Trust, The Bruce Wake Charitable Trust, North East Employer Coalition, Stewarts Turf

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