Our Impact - Gardens for Good Causes

Our charity raises funds for hundreds of charities each year, powered by our amazing teams of volunteers and garden owners around Scotland, through garden gate tickets, plants sales and teas.

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SGS 2024 Annual Accounts

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Our Charitable Support

Through our annual garden openings, Scotland’s Gardens Scheme supported over 250 different charities and good causes in 2025. Our garden owners may donate up to 60% of funds raised through their garden opening to a cause of their own choosing, often something in their local communities, or a charity close to their heart. The remaining 40% going to our own charity and to our three core charities below, who we are immensely proud to support.

In 2025, we donated £20,000 to each of our three core charities, QNIS, Perennial and Maggie’s.

We also donated £5000 to a guest charity, Trellis Scotland, a therapeutic gardening charity.

To read more about the work of these wonderful charities, please visit their websites, linked below.

We also make donations to over 250 charities and local good causes each year, chosen by our garden openers as causes close to their hearts.

The image shows garden opener Kirsty Maguire and her beautiful baby boy; Kirsty told us why her family chose to support the amazing charity Crossbasket House in 2025.

Read Kirsty’s story here

Discover more of our charity stories and impact below:

Our core charities each received £24,000 through Garden Openings in 2025

“Funding from Scotland's Gardens Scheme has been invaluable in allowing us to continue supporting the professional development of community nurse leaders and promoting the welfare of retired Queen's Nurses across Scotland.”

Clare Cable, Chief Executive & Nurse Director, QNIS

“Thank you all for your most welcome support of Maggie’s in Scotland again this year. All of our Centres benefit from Scotland’s Gardens Scheme donations and from every garden opening, for which we are enormously grateful.

Happy gardening!”

Laura Lee, Chief Executive, Maggie’s

“Horticulturalists face challenges due to the cost of living crisis and pressure on health and social services. Partnerships like ours with Scotland’s Gardens Scheme are vital. Thank you for your continued support; your annual donation significantly aids Scotland’s horticulturalists and their families during these difficult times.”

Jamie Gault, Chief Executive, Perennial

Thank you to Dame Laura Lee for this message of thanks from Maggie’s to all our garden owners, volunteers and visitors:

The following causes chosen by garden openers
have received over £2,000 in 2025.

Highland Hospice - £7,207
Scottish Charity Air Ambulance - £6,980
Abundant Borders - £6,258
Marie Curie - £5,767
Maggie’s - £5,715 (in addition to core donation)
Leuchie - £5,642
Loch Arthur Camphill - £5,474
RNLI - £4,365
Perennial - £4,120 (in addition to core donation)
Alzheimer Scotland - £3,934
British Limbless Ex-servicemen’s Association - £3,850
Rio Community Centre - £3,010
Mary’s Meals - £2,882

MND Scotland - £2,877
Medecins Sans Frontieres - £2,859
Barrahormid Trust - £2,766
Strathcarron Hospice - £2,720
Gifford Horticultural Society - £2,706
Lynton Day Centre - £2,580
Go Flourish - £2,577
The Forget-Me-Not Club - £2,398
Rhu and Shandon Parish Church - £2,269
Crossbasket House at Glasgow
Children’s Hospital Ltd - £2,068
Children First - £2,040
Corsock and Kirkpatrick Durham Church - £2,024

Our 2023 Impact Report

Read about our 2023 year and the difference Scotland’s Gardens Scheme volunteers and gardens owners have made.

Click here to read our 2023 Impact Report