Painswick Rococo Garden has been awarded £128,915 grant from The National Lottery Heritage Fund.
The grant will help deliver a project with the community through a series of wellbeing visits, practical green skills sessions and heritage learning days. The grant will also create a sustainable future for the Garden by building organisational resilience.
Painswick Rococo Garden was laid out in 1748 and is the country’s sole surviving complete rococo garden. Without this funding from The National Lottery Heritage Fund, the organisation’s resilience would remain at risk and its heritage could be lost forever.
The National Lottery funded project will enable Painswick Rococo Garden to be more resilient, plan more suitable visitor facilities, and engage with a wider range of people from the local community, supported by a skilled volunteer team.
The two-year project will develop an engaging outreach programme which will welcome local community groups, including neurodivergent young people, increasing these participants’ understanding of and connection to nature and the Garden’s heritage.
The legacy of this project will be the improved sustainability of the Garden, increased wellbeing of participants, improved skills of staff and volunteers and a greater awareness of the Garden’s unique heritage landscape, habitats, and the environment.
Dominic Hamilton from Painswick Rococo Garden said: “We are thrilled to have received this support from The National Lottery Heritage Fund. Thanks to money raised by National Lottery players vital organisational support and exciting engagement opportunities will be given to young learners in Gloucestershire.”
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