Become a Charity

Cheques from the 2017 Fife Garden Trail are presented to RHET Fife and RNLI Anstruther

Scotland’s Gardens Scheme is very much about supporting charities through sharing, visiting and learning about gardens. We support gardeners across Scotland to open their gardens to the public. Most of our opening gardens are private and the owners may nominate a charity(s) of their choice to receive up to 60% of their money raised. These nominated charities may help our Garden Owners with their open day, most often by managing the teas for the event. The net remaining funds raised are contributed to our core beneficiaries, described below.

Nominated Charity

Would you like to be considered as a Nominated Charity? The Garden Owner’s choice of their nominated charity is often a personal decision. However, we are happy to make our openers aware of charities that would like to be supported. We do this through a special newsletter every summer. If you would like to be included in this mailing, please sign up to our newsletter, as we do a call out to charities in the summer for details.

Core Beneficiaries

Our core beneficiaries for money raised for openings during 2019-2023 are Queen’s Nursing Institute for Scotland, Maggie’s Centres and Perennial. More information about our current beneficiaries can be found here.