This Week’s Guest Blog is about opening your garden and raising money for Gardening for Disabled Trust Charity
One way you can help Gardening for Disabled Trust Charity (GDT) is to open your garden to the public and donate the entrance fee to help us continue our life changing work.
One such garden that has done that is Fursdon House in Devon. Their stunning gardens are regularly open to visitors in the summer and they dedicated one day where the charity would receive a percentage of the garden entrance fee.
We have 9 volunteer committee members and work tirelessly to fundraise, enabling us to get more people back into their gardens by offering grants. We organise a number of events but by people opening their gardens and donating the income from it we do need to find manpower to carry it out. We assist with publicising the event but the garden owners deal with the logistics of the day.
GDT was invited to attend Canterbury Cathedral Open Gardens because we had been nominated as a beneficiary of the day and received a third of the garden entrance money. The other benficiaries were Perennial Charity and National Gardens Scheme.
The Duke and Duchess of Grafton have invited GDT to attend their Garden only Open Day at the magnficent Euston Hall on 16th September from the 10am until 2pm. The park and gardens are open and we will receive a portion of the profts form the day.
Please consider supporting these events or opening your gardens, or allotments etc and donating the income from it to us to enable us to continue our life changing work.
Visit our website gardeningwithdisabilitiestrust.org.uk to find out more about our work .