A conservation charity working to protect the county’s historic parks and gardens for future generations
The Dorset Gardens Trust asks all our members to think about volunteering to help us achieve our aims and stay “in business” . Volunteers are especially needed to join the groups who initiate and run garden visits and lectures with the Events Committee, and who visit schools to encourage gardening for the young with the Schools programme. In addition , two key roles as Chairs of the Events Committee and the Schools Committee have just become available. Please get in touch through the “contact us” link above and someone will get back to you. Volunteering with us is great fun - you make friends and get to know much more about Dorset and its gardens
Welcome
As a Charitable Trust, we work with schools, garden owners and national bodies to educate, highlight and encourage the conservation and restoration of designed landscapes ranging from the grounds of stately homes to cottage gardens.
We help schools set up and run gardens and we organise visits, lectures and events where members can share their interest and knowledge in a sociable atmosphere.
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History of the Trusts
The County Gardens Trusts were started in 1989 to promote the conservation of historic parks and gardens, Dorset being one of the first.
The Trusts are registered charities and come under the umbrella of The Gardens Trust, which acts on their behalf when dealing with central government and national bodies. The Gardens Trust was formed in July 2015 by a merger of the Association of Gardens Trusts and the Garden History Society.
Our aim is to ensure that all Dorset’s significant designed landscapes, rural and urban, including gardens and parks, churchyards, public parks, open spaces, cottage gardens, townscapes and cemeteries, whatever their size, are given due recognition so that the pleasure and value of this heritage can be appreciated by us and by future generations. No historic landscape, rural or urban should be lost through ignorance or neglect.