National Garden Scheme

The National Garden Scheme opens thousands of beautiful gardens every year to help support unpaid carers.

Carers Trust’s partnership with the National Garden Scheme

The National Garden Scheme is Carers Trust’s longest standing corporate donor, and through funds raised from garden visits over the past 29 years, we have received over £6 million from the National Garden Scheme to help support unpaid carers. 

The National Garden Scheme raises large sums of money every year through these garden visits for caring and nursing charities, of which Carers Trust is one of the beneficiaries. 

The money Carers Trust has received from the National Garden Scheme has helped us to support the UK’s seven million unpaid carers. This includes increasing our reach and ability to offer advice, information, respite care, and financial support to carers in their local communities as well as through our policy and campaigning work.

Visiting a National Garden Scheme garden 

There’s an amazing selection of gardens opening for the National Garden Scheme every year. From extensive country gardens and small, ingenious plots to allotments, community gardens and many others. For a small entry fee you can visit National Garden Scheme gardens and in the process you will be supporting carers through Carers Trust.

You can find out more about visiting one of these beautiful gardens on the National Garden Scheme website. 

You can also enjoy an array of Virtual Garden Visits. Here's an example below.

Get involved!

Money raised from garden entry fees is shared out by the National Garden Scheme with its partner charities, including Carers Trust. So your visit will help our work to support unpaid carers across the UK.

Find out how you can get involved by visiting the National Garden Scheme website today.

Little Yellow Book of Gardens and Health

The National Garden Scheme’s Little Yellow Book of Gardens and Health shares inspiring stories that highlight the powerful “green medicine” benefits of gardens. Published annually since 2021, it has become a key feature of Gardens and Health Week, showcasing how gardens support health, wellbeing and community.

Carers Trust Network Partners

If you are a staff member from a Carers Trust Network Partner in England or Wales and are interested in finding out how you can link with a National Garden Scheme garden, then please get in touch. 

Contact Catriona Rainey, our Partnerships Manager.