How we are funded

Horatio’s Garden is an independent registered charity, reliant on public support. Any amount, no matter how great or small, helps to ensure that Horatio’s Gardens will always be there for those who need it most.

Where income is spent

Each Horatio’s Garden is carefully designed by a designer and architect with specialist teams to be accessible and sustainable. Everything is of exceptional quality to be long lasting in the high use setting.

It costs £100,000 a year to care for each of the gardens. This includes the part-time salaries of the garden teams, training and recruiting volunteers, garden maintenance such as plants and compost, the arts programme activities and refreshments for the garden room.

“The difference that Horatio’s Garden has made to me is immense. The garden is so full of life that it gives you hope. It’s helped with my wellbeing and with my recovery. I don’t know where I’d be without it.”

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How we raise funds

Trusts & Foundations

Corporate Partnerships

Individual Donors

Events, Third Party
and Community Fundraising

Our most substantial income stream comes from the charitable support of numerous trusts and foundations across the UK.

Our largest single funder is the National Garden Scheme, who have generously donated £675,620 to date, with a commitment to fund a contribution to all future gardens. Every summer, Horatio’s Gardens open for the National Garden Scheme as part of its programme to offer unique visitor access to over 3,500 exceptional private gardens in England, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Channel Islands.

Find out more about the National Garden Scheme

We are very grateful to all our funders and acknowledge thanks for 2023/24 to:

Charity-wide

The Adrian Swire Charitable Trust
AEB Charitable Trust
Cuthbert Horn Charitable Trust
M7 Real Estate
National Garden Scheme
Rathbones
Red Savannah
Stifel Europe
The Adrian Swire Charitable Trust
The Gosling Foundation
The John Armitage Charitable Trust
The Northwick Charitable Trust
Rathbones
The Swire Charitable Trust
The Witheren Foundation

Core

Caledonia Foundation
The Aurora Trust
The Queen Anne’s Gate Foundation
The Rank Foundation
The Linbury Trust

Arts

Arts Council England
NHS England - South East Region
The de Laszlo Foundation
The Rank Foundation

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South West

The Alice Ellen Cooper Dean Charitable Trust
The Payne-Gallwey Charitable Trust
The Valentine Charitable Trust
Wates Foundation
Wiltshire Gardens Trust

Horatio’s Garden Scotland

AEB Charitable Trust
Baillie Gifford
Cruden Foundation
Digby Brown
Gargunnock Estate Trust
The Hugh Fraser Foundation
Murdoch Forrest Charitable Trust
The Hugh Fraser Foundation

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Stoke Mandeville

The ALBORADA Trust
Bolt Burdon Kemp
Heart of Bucks Community Foundation
Rothschild Foundation
The Stratton No2 Charitable Fund

Horatio’s Garden Midlands

Horwich Cohen Coghlan Solicitors
Peter Sowerby Foundation
The 29th May 1961 Charitable Trust
The Linbury Trust

Horatio’s Garden London & South East

Bolt Burdon Kemp
London Freemasons Charity
National Garden Scheme
Pears Foundation
The Borrows Charitable Trust
The Charlotte Heber-Percy
Charitable Trust
The Lawson Trust
Worshipful Company of Gardeners

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Wales

Cardiff & Vale Health Charity
Hugh James
National Garden Scheme
Pears Foundation
The Millennium Stadium Charitable Trust
The Simon Gibson Charitable Trust
Welsh Rugby Charitable Trust

Horatio’s Garden Northern Ireland

CAPITAL APPEAL

AEB Charitable Trust
Cathedral Eye Clinic
Cleopatra Trust
G & K Boyes Charitable Trust
Garfield Weston Foundation
Halifax Foundation
Hospital Funds - Belfast Health & Social Care Trust
John Atcheson Foundation
Maureen Boal Charitable Trust
MITRE Trust
National Garden Scheme
Pears Foundation
The Geoff & Fiona Squire Foundation
The Glenbevan Trust
The J P Jacobs Charitable Trust
The Kate Lagan Fund
The Kilroot Foundation
The Wolfson Foundation
Ulster Garden Villages Limited
Ulter Rugby
W & R Barnett

Horatio’s Garden Sheffield & East