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Gift Membership

Membership of the Gardens makes an ideal gift for a friend or family member whatever the occasion. A special Gift Membership pack is available. Please ask at the Ticket Desk in the Visitor & Education Pavilion or call 01794 369318 for further details.

Adopt a Tree!

You can find out more about adopting a tree as a very special gift for someone, or in which to remember a loved one by. Please ask at the Ticket Desk in the Visitor & Education Pavilion or call 01794 369318 for further details.

Memorial benches

Memorial benches are a wonderful way for remembering a loved one and at the same time in providing a resting place for visitors to the Gardens. We would be delighted to talk to you more about memorial benches, plaques, and the different design and wood options available. Please enquire at the Ticket Desk in the Visitor & Education Pavilion, or call 01794 369318, or email us at info@hilliergardens.org.uk.

Legacies

Legacies are vital in supporting the conservation work we do here at the Sir Harold Hillier Gardens. We would be delighted to talk to you more about giving a legacy. Please enquire at the Ticket Desk in the Visitor & Education Pavilion, or call 01794 369318, or email us at info@hilliergardens.org.uk.

Corporate sponsors needed!

Sir Harold Hillier Gardens is a Garden of international importance, and which is managed and operated by Hampshire County Council as the sole Trustee.

The £3.5 million contemporary Visitor & Education Pavilion was opened in 2003 and visited by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth HM. The Pavilion has met with much acclaim and enables us to provide a high standard of visitor and education services that match our world-class plant collection.

We are in an excellent position to develop a range of corporate partnership and sponsorship opportunities.

Our 180 acre Garden with its 42,000 plants is a registered charity (Registered Charity number 274737) and:

Is an established visitor destination with around 120,000 national and international customers per year
Is a centre of excellence for horticulture
Has one of the World’s largest collection of hardy trees and shrubs which includes 12 National Plant Collections, more than 200 different species of threatened plants and more than 300 Champion Trees
Runs and supports a wide range of conservation programmes
Is a market leader in environmental education, with over 11,000 students and pupil visits per year, of all ages, educational levels and abilities
Has an established corporate and private hire business (conferences, weddings and social occasions)
Has a rapidly expanding Membership database of 11,000, whom are targeted with several mail shots throughout the year
Distributes around 200,0000 high quality publicity leaflets per year
Runs an extensive, and continuously expanding programme of public events and exhibitions all year round
Receives regular TV and press coverage
Features excellent in-house catering services

The Sir Harold Hillier Gardens as a garden attraction is best summed up by Robin Lane Fox (Weekend Financial Times)

“…I have just visited Hampshire’s own answer to the Himalayas. Off the busy road to Romsey, I turned right and was in earthly paradise”

Promoting your organisation's "Green Agenda"

I am confident that we can offer you a range of corporate partnership opportunities that promote your organisation’s support for the “green agenda” and present you with the opportunity of reaching a wide audience. Partnership options include:

Supporting a choice of events ranging from gardening/leisure workshops to operas, plays, and art/photography exhibitions
Adopting an established area of the Gardens
Working together to fund and develop new landscape features and improving access for the whole community
Provision of equipment
Funding of formal and informal education programmes

Benefits for your organisation

In return and relative to the level of support, we would be prepared to offer a range of benefits:

Provision of product promotion facilities within the Gardens and through our mail-outs
Product placement
Acknowledgement of support on a wide range of publications, publicity materials, signs, and interpretative displays
The use of facilities for displays, presentations etc
The use of facilities/events for corporate hospitality
Corporate Membership with entry passes to the Gardens for employees
Membership of the Gardens to your major clients
Invitations to Garden corporate events
Staged payments of support, to the agreed level, over the contractual period

We would, of course, be very flexible to any of your own ideas and would be delighted to discuss them with you. We are keen to forge links with established, reputable companies where support can be seen, understood and appreciated by all.

For further details on sponsorship please contact the Gardens’ Director, Mr Robin Kealy: Telephone: 01794 369304 Email: robin.kealy@hants.gov.uk

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