# National Gardens Scheme’s total for Macmillan reaches £15 million

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2015/07/28/national-gardens-schemes-total-for-macmillan-reaches-15m/
- Published: 2015-07-28T11:19:17+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**The National Gardens Scheme has now raised £15 million for Macmillan Cancer Support
over the past 30 years. The NGS is Macmillan’s longest standing corporate partner
and its largest single donor.**

The record total was announced after the NGS gave **£2.6 million** this year to 
the charities it supports by opening more than 3,800 private gardens in England 
and Wales.

![National Gardens Scheme - open for charity](https://www.fundraising.co.uk/wp-content/
uploads/2015/07/national-gardens-scheme-sign-open-for-charity.jpg)

Raising funds for charities since 1927 by opening private gardens.

 

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The money raised has funded over 150 [Macmillan ](http://macmillan.org.uk)services
to help make sure that no one faces cancer alone. These include financial advisers,
clinical nursing specialists, and physiotherapists.

The partnership has also involved The NGS promoting Macmillan’s ‘Move More’ campaign
that highlights how gentle exercise such as gardening can help reduce both the side
effects of cancer treatment, and the risk of a cancer recurrence.

![The Yellow Book tells you where to find participating gardens.](https://www.fundraising.
co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/national-gardens-scheme-yellow-books-2015.jpg)

The Yellow Book tells you where to find participating gardens.

 

Last year [The National Gardens Scheme](http://www.ngs.org.uk.) donated £500,000
towards the creation of the first NGS Macmillan Wellbeing Centre in Southmead Hospital,
Bristol. The centre provides services including information about cancer and its
treatment, supported physical activity programmes and expert dietary and nutritional
advice.

 

![Macmillan's National Gardens Festival Weekend 2015](https://www.fundraising.co.
uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/macmillan-national-gardens-festival-weekend-2015.jpg)

## Charities supported

Charities supported by the National Gardens Scheme include Macmillan Cancer Support,
Marie Curie, Hospice UK, Carers Trust, Parkinson’s UK, The Queen’s Nursing Institute
and Perennial. Founded in 1927 it has donated **more than £24 million** to charity
in the last ten years alone.

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