NSPCC to plant seed of future legacies with Legacy Garden at flower show
Howard Lake | 4 June 2014 | News
Children’s charity NSPCC is marking its 130th anniversary this year by exhibiting a nostalgic garden that promotes legacies at the RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show.
The NSPCC Legacy Garden, sponsored by The Garden Centre Group’s ‘Gardens for Good’ programme, focuses on the NSPCC’s work throughout the past 130 years and the legacy that it has created.
How gifts in wills have helped
The NSPCC Legacy Garden has been designed by multiple RHS Chelsea Gold Medal winners Adam Woolcott and Jonathan Smith of Woolcott & Smith Garden Design.
With plants and toys it depicts different eras of childhood and demonstrates how gifts in supporters’ wills have helped fund the charity’s work. At the centre of the garden there is a copper beech where messages from supporters and young people will be displayed.
Alex McDowell, Head of Legacy and Tribute at the NSPCC, said:
“We’ll be marking our 130th anniversary on 8 July and the NSPCC Legacy Garden is a fitting way to commemorate this milestone, celebrating the difference we’ve been able to make for children and families thanks to our generous supporters, and encouraging visitors to reflect on the legacy they wish to leave for the next generation.
“We hope our garden inspires people to consider how they could help to keep more children safe and free from cruelty by leaving a gift in their will to the NSPCC, after they have taken care of their own loved ones.”Advertisement
Visitors to the Hampton Court Palace Flower Show, which runs from 8-13 July, will find the NSPCC Legacy Garden at stand E/3 on Ditton Avenue.
About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.