STANLEY SMITH UK HORTICULTURAL TRUST — grant history
Latest income
£159k
Grants listed (FY2026)
40
Listed grants total
£126k
Accounts grants total
£133k
reconciliation not assessedextracted from its FY2026 accounts
Application guidance — from the funder’s own website
- How to apply: Applicants can download an application form from the website. Grants are awarded twice a year, in April and September (following application deadlines of 15 February and 15 August).
- Deadlines: Grants are normally awarded twice a year, in April and September (following application deadlines of 15 February and 15 August).
What this funder supports
Causes funded
Where grantees operate
- Herefordshire
- Liverpool City
- Worcestershire
What changed: FY2024 → FY2026
| Change | Grantee | FY2024 | FY2026 |
|---|---|---|---|
| new | Hampshire County Council - Traineeship | — | £15k |
| new | English Heritage - Traineeship | — | £15k |
| new | Broadstone Dell Rejuvenation Project, Dorset | — | £5k |
| new | Refreshing the Theatrical Border at Strawberry Hill House, London | — | £5k |
| new | Castle Bromwich Historic Gardens, Birmingham | — | £5k |
| new | Embedding Horticultural Skills and Garden-Based Learning in BUC, University of Oxford Botanic Garden | — | £5k |
| new | Revealing the Enigma: A Survey of English Garden Grottoes and Shell Houses | — | £5k |
| new | HighGround Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre Loughborough | — | £5k |
| not listed | Friends of the University of Bristol Botanic Garden Traineeship | £15k | — |
| not listed | NTS Inverewe Traineeship | £15k | — |
| not listed | Birmingham Botanical Gardens Traineeship | £15k | — |
| not listed | Working for Gardens Association Traineeship | £15k | — |
| not listed | Teapot Trust’s Elsewhere Garden, Musselburgh, East Lothian | £5k | — |
| not listed | Kelmarsh Hall and Garden, Northamptonshire, Spring in the Woodland Garden Project | £5k | — |
| not listed | Scone Palace, Perth, Rose Garden Project | £5k | — |
| not listed | Painshill Park Trust, Surrey, Continued Restoration of Walled Garden and Kitchen Garden Exhibition | £5k | — |
Grants made, per its accounts filings
| Recipient | Year | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hampshire County Council - Traineeship | FY2026 | £15k | Underspent grants returned |
| English Heritage - Traineeship | FY2026 | £15k | Iver Environment Centre, Iver, Buckinghamshire, Garden Development |
| Broadstone Dell Rejuvenation Project, Dorset | FY2026 | £5k | Boleskine House, Inverness. Garden Restoration |
| Refreshing the Theatrical Border at Strawberry Hill House, London | FY2026 | £5k | Eric Young Orchid Foundation, Jersey |
| Castle Bromwich Historic Gardens, Birmingham | FY2026 | £5k | Garden Organic, Coventry, Heritage Seed Library Cucurbit Collection |
| Embedding Horticultural Skills and Garden-Based Learning in BUC, University of Oxford Botanic Garden | FY2026 | £5k | University of Reading Outdoor Learning Garden |
| Revealing the Enigma: A Survey of English Garden Grottoes and Shell Houses | FY2026 | £5k | English Heritage, London, Gardens and Empires |
| HighGround Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre Loughborough | FY2026 | £5k | YMCA Exeter, Therapeutic Horticulture Project |
| Promoting Horticulture as an Essential Tool for Plant Conservation in South Africa, Glasnevin Botanic Garden, Dublin | FY2026 | £5k | The Professional Gardens Trust - Traineeship |
| Horatio’s Garden, Princess Royal Spinal Cord Injuries Centre, Sheffield | FY2026 | £5k | Little Sparta, Lanarkshire. Storm Damage Restoration |
| Bromeliad Book, Ian Hodgson. Contribution to Travel Costs for Research | FY2026 | £5k | Ellen Willmott book. Support for Production Costs |
| Fulham Palace, London. Box Hedge Replacement Project | FY2026 | £4k | Painshill Park Trust, Cobham, Surrey |
| Phylogeny and Speciation of the Genus Autonoe in the Macaronesian Region | FY2026 | £4k | Glasgow Necropolis, Flower Memorial Summer Planting Scheme |
| National Plant Collection Holders’ Conference 2024, Kew Gardens | FY2026 | £3k | V&A, Dundee, Garden Futures: Designing with Nature Exhibition |
| Brogdale Collection, Faversham, Education for Children and Young People | FY2026 | £3k | The Gardens Trust Early Careers Network, London |
| The North of England Zoological Society, Chester Zoo | FY2026 | £3k | Holme for Gardens, Holme Nurseries Ltd, Dorset |
| Free Range Garden project, Hackney | FY2026 | £3k | Volunteering Hebrides, Stornoway, Growing Together Project |
| Hepworth Wakefield Gallery, Plants and Materials for New Garden Area | FY2026 | £3k | The Garden Museum, London |
| Muslim Womens Council, Shipley | FY2026 | £2k | Ushaw Historic House, Gardens and Chapels, County Durham |
| Lingen Davies Cancer Support, Shrewsbury | FY2026 | £2k | Europom 2026, RHS Garden Rosemoor, Devon |
| Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals Charity, London | FY2026 | £2k | Fydell House Garden Restoration, Boston Preservation Trust, Lincolnshire |
| Preservation of Borde Hill’s Historic Rhododendron Collection | FY2026 | £2k | Haddington Garden Trust, St Mary’s Pleasance |
| Bath Park Activator Programme. Purchase of Plants and Tree Supports | FY2026 | £2k | St Christopher’s Hospice, Sydenham, London. Purchase of Plants |
| Minstead Trust, Hampshire, Furzey Gardens | FY2026 | £2k | Birmingham Botanical & Horticultural Society, Edgbaston, Birmingham |
| PROJECT Fritillaria.GR II – Botanical expeditions and germination | FY2026 | £2k | Endemic Plants of Mediterranean Chile. Contribution to distribution costs |
| The Mavers Foundation Orchid Pod Project, Pulborough | FY2026 | £2k | Gilbert White’s House & Gardens, Selborne, Hampshire |
| Biodiversity Collections of Threatened Plant Species in Central-South Chile | FY2026 | £2k | Paul Bartlett, Plant Study Trip to Labrador, North-East Canada |
| The UK Overseas Territories Conservation Forum & Montserrat National Trust, Montserrat Botanic Garden | FY2026 | £2k | Plant Heritage, RHS Wisley |
| Auchterarder Horticultural Society, Perth and Kinross | FY2026 | £2k | Beannachar Camphill Community, Banchory, Aberdeenshire |
| Plant Study Trip, South Africa, Desert to Temperate Rainforest | FY2026 | £1k | |
| Mark Bobin, Study Tour of Native Flora, Sichuan, China | FY2026 | £1k | Jamie McCormack, Study Tour of Native Flora, Sichuan, China |
| Warneford Hospital, Oxford. Redevelopment of Asylum Garden | FY2026 | £1k | Everton Pool Garden, Everton Park, Liverpool |
| Revealing the Enigma: A Survey of English Garden Grottoes | FY2026 | £1k | Virtuous Landscapes: Little Sparta at War |
| WASLER, Women’s Aid South Lanarkshire and East Renfrewshire | FY2026 | £1k | Northern Roots, Oldham, Urban Farm and Market Garden |
| Roots to Branches Forest School, Preston | FY2026 | £1k | Optimising Growing Conditions in the Palace Glasshouse, Wells, Somerset |
| British Library Garden Exhibition. Contribution to Exhibition Costs | FY2026 | £1k | North Wales Wildlife Trust, Invasive Plants Interpretation |
| St. Augustine’s High School, London, Eco & Garden Project Proposal | FY2026 | £900 | Leeds Castle Foundation, Kent, Cascade Garden |
| Pocket Mushroom Garden, Myco Manchester | FY2026 | £750 | Up the Garden Path, Helmsley Walled Garden, Yorkshire |
| GrowNotts, Nottingham, Wild About Sneinton: Autumn Greening Project | FY2026 | £500 | Cambo Garden, Fife, Garden Redevelopment Project |
| Enham Trust Community Orchard and Walled Garden, Andover | FY2026 | £200 | Garden Organic, Coventry, Development of National Collection |
| Friends of the University of Bristol Botanic Garden Traineeship | FY2024 | £15k | Advancing horticultural education |
| NTS Inverewe Traineeship | FY2024 | £15k | Advancing horticultural education |
| Birmingham Botanical Gardens Traineeship | FY2024 | £15k | Advancing horticultural education |
| Working for Gardens Association Traineeship | FY2024 | £15k | Advancing horticultural education |
| Teapot Trust’s Elsewhere Garden, Musselburgh, East Lothian | FY2024 | £5k | Promoting creation and maintenance of public gardens |
| Kelmarsh Hall and Garden, Northamptonshire, Spring in the Woodland Garden Project | FY2024 | £5k | Promoting creation and maintenance of public gardens |
| Scone Palace, Perth, Rose Garden Project | FY2024 | £5k | Promoting creation and maintenance of public gardens |
| Painshill Park Trust, Surrey, Continued Restoration of Walled Garden and Kitchen Garden Exhibition | FY2024 | £5k | Promoting creation and maintenance of public gardens |
| Belsay Awakes, Upper Terrace Planting, Morpeth | FY2024 | £5k | Promoting creation and maintenance of public gardens |
| Sandra Lawrence | FY2024 | £4k | Expeditions to collect and protect valuable plants |
| Size of Wales Chelsea Garden | FY2024 | £4k | Promoting creation and maintenance of public gardens |
| Richard Moore, Christopher Parsons, Lawrence Wright and Edward Shaw Plant Study Trip to Kanchenjunga Conservation Area, Nepal | FY2024 | £4k | Study visits |
| Brogdale Collections Publication, Faversham, Kent | FY2024 | £4k | Promoting horticulture |
| Birmingham Botanical & Horticultural Society Ltd (Birmingham Botanical Gardens), Development of Mediterranean Glasshouse | FY2024 | £4k | Promoting creation and maintenance of public gardens |
| Peterborough Cathedral, Restoration of South Entrance Garden | FY2024 | £4k | Promoting creation and maintenance of public gardens |
| Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society, Saughton Park, Edinburgh | FY2024 | £4k | Promoting horticulture |
| Project Fritillaria GR Wild Collections and Ex-situ Conservation of Prioritised Fritillaria Spp. Of Greece for Horticultural Evaluation | FY2024 | £4k | Promoting biological conservation and diversity |
| Field Trip to Investigate Cacti of Jamaica and Cayman Islands | FY2024 | £4k | Study visits |
| Garden Museum, London, New Healing Garden | FY2024 | £4k | Promoting creation and maintenance of public gardens |
| Winterbourne House & Garden, University of Birmingham | FY2024 | £4k | Promoting creation and maintenance of public gardens |
| Fauna and Flora International, Conserving Threatened Fruit and Nut Trees and Associated Species, Tajikistan | FY2024 | £4k | Promoting biological conservation and diversity |
| Whitaker Park Regeneration, Lancashire | FY2024 | £4k | Promoting creation and maintenance of public gardens |
| Benmore Botanic Garden, Dunoon, Giant Redwood Avenue Geo-injection Programme | FY2024 | £3k | Promoting creation and maintenance of public gardens |
| Garden Organic, Development of Comfrey Collection | FY2024 | £3k | Promoting horticulture |
| Hestercombe Garden Trust, Somerset, Gotton Copse restoration | FY2024 | £3k | Promoting creation and maintenance of public gardens |
| Teapot Trust (based in Musselburgh, East Lothian). Elsewhere Garden, Royal Hospital for Children, Glasgow | FY2024 | £3k | Promoting creation and maintenance of public gardens |
| Sheringham Park (National Trust), Norfolk, Plant Identification Project | FY2024 | £3k | Promoting horticulture |
| The Community Allotments, RBG Kew | FY2024 | £3k | Promoting creation and maintenance of public gardens |
| Plant Heritage, National Collection Holders Conference, Chester Zoo | FY2024 | £3k | Promoting horticulture |
| Chelsea Physic Garden, Xerophytic Garden Project | FY2024 | £3k | Promoting creation and maintenance of public gardens |
| Preservation of Borde Hills Historic Rhododendron Collection, West Sussex | FY2024 | £3k | Promoting creation and maintenance of public gardens |
| St Fagans Castle Carden Glasshouses, Cardiff, Restoration Project | FY2024 | £3k | Promoting creation and maintenance of public gardens |
| Trees for Cities Tree Planting at Racecourse Estate in Northolt | FY2024 | £3k | Promoting creation and maintenance of public gardens |
| Woodstock Chapel Memorial Garden Restoration Project, Oxfordshire | FY2024 | £3k | Promoting creation and maintenance of public gardens |
| Trees for Cities Tredegar Square Project, East London, Purchase of Trees | FY2024 | £3k | Promoting creation and maintenance of public gardens |
| RHS New Shoots Project, Bridgewater Practical Training Hub | FY2024 | £3k | Advancing horticultural education |
| Homerton Hospital | FY2024 | £2k | Promoting creation and maintenance of public gardens |
| Improving Knowledge and Labelling of the Living Collections and St Andrews Botanic Garden | FY2024 | £2k | Promoting horticulture |
| Fay Davies, Kew Diploma Student, Plant Study Trip to Bolivia | FY2024 | £2k | Study visits |
| Grow for Life Therapeutic Horticulture Project, Bath | FY2024 | £2k | Promoting creation and maintenance of public gardens |
| Study trip Dr Bui Hong Quang and Dr Nguyen Van Du to RBG Edinburgh and Kew | FY2024 | £2k | Study visits |
| Hannah Hall, Monocots Conference, Costa Rica | FY2024 | £2k | Study visits |
| Climate Friendly Food, Lancashire, Bog Plants for Wellbeing | FY2024 | £2k | Promoting creation and maintenance of public gardens |
| Talemos Seta, Ethiopia, Botanic Garden | FY2024 | £2k | Study visits |
| St Anna Allotments, Nottingham, Renovation of Oliver’s Garden | FY2024 | £2k | Promoting creation and maintenance of public gardens |
| Beds for Bees by Repollinate | FY2024 | £2k | Promoting biological conservation and diversity |
| ASCape Garden Club, West Dorset | FY2024 | £1k | Promoting creation and maintenance of public gardens |
| Royal Trinity Hospice, Clapham | FY2024 | £1k | Promoting creation and maintenance of public gardens |
| Rise 61 Sensory Garden Project, Salisbury | FY2024 | £1k | Promoting creation and maintenance of public gardens |
| Family Action’s Escape project, Norfolk | FY2024 | £1k | Promoting creation and maintenance of public gardens |
| Celia Aceae, International Botanical Congress, 2024, Madrid | FY2024 | £1k | Study visits |
| Cohn Jones, Plant Study Trip, Mt Meili and Biluo Yunnan | FY2024 | £1k | Study visits |
| Jonathan Hutchinson, Fieldwork trip to Tanzania to Study Scadoxus | FY2024 | £1k | Expeditions to collect and protect valuable plants |
| Upton in Bloom, Growing for Gold Project | FY2024 | £1k | Promoting creation and maintenance of public gardens |
| Spitalfields Crypt Trust, London | FY2024 | £1k | Promoting creation and maintenance of public gardens |
| Paul Bartlett, Sone Lane Gardens, Devon, Plant Study Trip to Mongolia | FY2024 | £1k | Study visits |
| Margie Phillips, Plant Study Trip, Mt Meili and Biluo Yunnan | FY2024 | £1k | Study visits |
| Seamus O’Brien, Plant Study Trip, Mt Meihi and Biluo Yunnan | FY2024 | £1k | Study visits |
| Westbury Town Council, Wiltshire, Bulb Planting | FY2024 | £870 | Promoting creation and maintenance of public gardens |
| Plant heritage 45th Sapphire Celebration Event, RHS Wisley | FY2024 | £800 | Promoting horticulture |
| The Library Bank Garden Regeneration Project, Broadstairs, Kent | FY2024 | £600 | Promoting creation and maintenance of public gardens |
| The Gardens’ Community Garden on Doncaster Gardens | FY2024 | £500 | Promoting creation and maintenance of public gardens |
| The Ancient Techology Centre, Dorsent, Medieval Herb Garden | FY2024 | £500 | Promoting creation and maintenance of public gardens |
| Crampton Tower Bank Garden Renovation Project, Broadstairs, Kent | FY2024 | £480 | Promoting creation and maintenance of public gardens |
| Nepal Botanical Study Trip, Misako Kasahara | FY2024 | £425 | Study visits |
| New Wellbeing Garden at RHS Garden Wisley | FY2022 | £5k | Approved September 2020 |
| New Horatio's Garden, University Hospital, Llandough | FY2022 | £5k | Approved March 2022 |
| Bloomin' Marvellous Project | FY2022 | £5k | Approved March 2022 |
| Arbeia Herb Garden Restoration, South Shields | FY2022 | £5k | Approved September 2021 |
| Atlantic Flowers, New Arcadian Journal of the ancestral species of the "albiflors" group of Tradescantia cultivars | FY2022 | £5k | Approved March 2022 |
| Chelsea Physic Garden, History Beds Interpretation Project | FY2022 | £5k | Approved September 2021 |
| RHS Wisley, Interpretation in Old Laboratory | FY2022 | £5k | Approved September 2021 |
| Fauna and Flora International, Cambridge, Conserving Threatened Fruit and Nut Trees, Tajikistan | FY2022 | £5k | Approved September 2021 |
| Cambo Heritage Trust, Fife | FY2022 | £4k | Approved March 2022 |
| Horatio's Garden, London | FY2022 | £4k | Approved September 2020 |
| Arduaine, near Oban, restoration & replacement of wind shelter planting | FY2022 | £4k | Approved September 2020 |
| Horticultural practice to conserve threatened fruit & nut trees in Tajikistan | FY2022 | £4k | Approved September 2020 |
| Fourth Reserve Foundation, Brockley, London | FY2022 | £4k | Approved March 2021 |
| Deep Green Space, Dumfries | FY2022 | £4k | Approved March 2021 |
| Garden Organic, Coventry | FY2022 | £4k | Approved September 2021 |
| Minehead Museum Celebrating Minehead's Environmental Heritage | FY2022 | £4k | Approved March 2022 |
| Hadlow College, Kent, Physic Garden Development | FY2022 | £4k | Approved March 2022 |
| Painshill, Cobham, Surrey, Restoration of fruit bays in large garden wall | FY2022 | £4k | Approved September 2021 |
| Winterbourne House & Garden, University of Birmingham | FY2022 | £4k | Approved March 2021 |
| Museum of North Craven Life, Settle, North Yorkshire | FY2022 | £3k | Approved March 2021 |
| Rectory Park, Houghton-le-Spring | FY2022 | £3k | Approved March 2022 |
| Marble Hill Revived, Flower Bed Planting, Richmond | FY2022 | £3k | Approved September 2020 |
| Dr Philip Cribb, reintroduction of Cypripedium calceolus into the Swiss Jura Mountains using horticultural expertise | FY2022 | £3k | Approved September 2020 |
| Lemon Tree Trust, creation of community garden in the Duhok's Zakho region of Iraq | FY2022 | £3k | Approved September 2020 |
| Backhouse Rossie, Fife, development of historic daffodil collection | FY2022 | £3k | Approved September 2020 |
| Online 2021 PlantNetwork | FY2022 | £3k | Approved March 2022 |
| Glasgow Seed Library | FY2022 | £3k | Approved March 2021 |
| Tagsa Uibhist, Isle of Benbecula | FY2022 | £3k | Approved March 2021 |
| House Trust, Stirling | FY2022 | £3k | Approved March 2022 |
| Turner's House Trust, London | FY2022 | £3k | Approved March 2021 |
| Food Behand Bars, HMP Swinfen Hall, Lichfield, Staffordshire | FY2022 | £2k | Approved March 2022 |
| Jonathan Hutchinson, AETFAT Conference Livingstone Zambia 2022 | FY2022 | £2k | Approved September 2021 |
| Belsay Awakes, Belsay Garden Restoration Project, Morpeth | FY2022 | £2k | Approved September 2021 |
| Publication of 'Complete Guide to Ginkgo biloba and cultivars' | FY2022 | £2k | Approved March 2022 |
| 'Engaging with Nature', Selly Manor Museum Garden, Bournville, Bannockburn | FY2022 | £2k | Approved March 2022 |
| The Royal National College for the Blind | FY2022 | £2k | Approved March 2022 |
| Liverpool Cathedral | FY2022 | £2k | Approved March 2021 |
| Publication of Napoleon's Garden Island: Lost and old gardens of St Helena | FY2022 | £2k | Approved September 2021 |
| Westonbirt Gardens Revealed, Gloucestershire | FY2022 | £2k | Approved March 2021 |
| Rise:61, Salisbury, Community Garden project | FY2022 | £2k | Approved March 2021 |
| Castle Bromwich Historic Gardens, Birmingham | FY2022 | £1k | Approved March 2021 |
| Cluny House Gardens, Perthshire | FY2022 | £1k | Approved March 2022 |
| Howes Primary School Coventry, new Japanese Peace Garden | FY2022 | £1k | Approved September 2020 |
| Chiltern Open Air Museum, Chalfont St Giles | FY2022 | £1k | Approved September 2020 |
| Shree Swaminarayan Mandlr Oldham | FY2022 | £1k | Approved March 2021 |
| Young Propagator's Society | FY2022 | £750 | Approved March 2021 |
| Evesham Abbey Trust | FY2022 | £350 | Approved March 2022 |
Write-backs & cancellations
| Recipient | Year | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valerie Boujard, Plant Study Trip to Araça Project, Brazil | FY2026 | −£720 | Martin Ammann, Study Tour to Nepal |
| Helsinki University | FY2022 | −£3k | Approved September 2020 |