# 17-year corporate sponsorship raises £30 million for National Gardens Scheme

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2011/04/17/17year-corporate-sponsorship-raises-30m-national-gardens-scheme/
- Published: 2011-04-17T18:53:59+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**Seventeen years of sponsorship by Rensberg Sheppards Investment Management of 
The National Gardens Scheme’s ‘Yellow Book’, which details thousands of gardens 
in England and Wales open for charity in the summer, has raised over £30 million
for charity.**

This year’s 750-page Yellow Book has just been published and features 3,700 gardens
in England and Wales that will open for charity this summer. For the first time 
it has been published in full colour.

Jonathan Wragg, Chief Executive, Rensburg Sheppards, said: “The Yellow Book is more
than just a guide. It is a hugely powerful fundraising tool, treasured by those 
that buy it and also by those charities that benefit from its sale and the gardens
visited. It’s the vital link in the [National Gardens Scheme](https://www.fundraising.co.uk/www.ngs.org.uk)‘
s fundraising chain and this why we’re proud to have supported it for the last 17
years.”

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Visitors to the gardens listed in the book, which range from allotments to estates,
pay a small donation, on average £3, to charity. Last year 750,000 people visited
gardens as part of the scheme and the NGS raised over £2.6 million for its charities.
This was distributed as follows:

£550,000 to both Macmillan Cancer Support and Marie Curie Cancer Care.

£450,000 Help the Hospices

£350,000 Crossroads Care

£150,000 Queen’s Nursing Institute

£150,000 Perennial (including the Royal Fund for Gardeners’ Children)

£176,000 National Trust careership scheme

£8,000 Chelsea Physic Garden

The NGS Trustees also voted additional donations to joint ‘guest’ charities for 
the year. Arthritis Research UK received £70,000, and The Soldiers’ Charity (The
Army Benevolent Fund) received £45,000.

The 2011 Yellow Book costs £9.99, or [£6 currently at Amazon.co.uk](http://www.amazon.co.uk/Yellow-Book-2011-Gardens-Charity/dp/1905942141/219).

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