The National Garden Scheme
Themes it funds
Money given to charities working on each theme, as each charity describes itself on the register. Many charities list several themes, so these overlap.
| Theme | Given | Share of all money given | Charities |
|---|---|---|---|
| Education and training | £4,000 | 100% | 1 |
| Disability | £4,000 | 100% | 1 |
| Arts, culture, heritage and science | £4,000 | 100% | 1 |
| Environment, conservation and heritage | £4,000 | 100% | 1 |
Given each year
By the year of each grant, or of the charity's accounts that record it.
| Year | Given |
|---|---|
| 2024 | £4,000 |
How it gives
- Charities in Wales funded
- 1
Where
The council area of each funded charity's contact address. Many charities work well beyond the area where their address is.
- Wrexham1
Size of the charities it funds
By each charity's income in its latest year.
- £500,000 to £1 million1
What it says it does
From its entry on the register of charities.
The NGS raises money for national nursing caring and gardening charities by receiving donations and other support as a result of opening gardens of quality, character and interest to the public. County teams raise funds primarily from donations from garden openings which are sent to Head Office. Gardens are promoted by the annual publication - The Yellow Book; the NGS website and County booklets.
- Status
- Registered on 9 January 2006
- Income in its latest year
- £5,803,863, year ending 31 December 2025
- Publishes its grants to 360Giving
- No
The charities it funds
Newest first. For each charity, given comes from its accounts or from 360Giving, whichever shows more.
| Charity | Given | From | Years |
|---|---|---|---|
| Erlas Victorian Walled Garden | £4,000 | Charity's accounts | 2024 |
Where these figures come from
- Given comes from two places. For each charity, we use whichever shows more: what the charity's own accounts say the funder gave it, or what the funder published to 360Giving. We never add the two, because they often record the same grant. Every figure counts money from 2021 to now and is an at-least figure: a funder appears only when a charity's accounts name it or it publishes its grants, and OpenEconomy has not yet read every charity's accounts.
- Charities' accounts: read from the accounts they filed with the Charity Commission by Claude, an AI model, in OpenEconomy's accounts reader, up to 2 November 2026. AI can misread a table, so check a charity's accounts before relying on a figure.
- 360Giving: grants funders published to 360Giving, loaded by OpenEconomy on 5 November 2026. Only some funders publish there.