The Cambridge University Botanic Garden holds a plant collection of over 8000 plant species from all over the world to facilitate teaching and research. The Garden provides resources including plant material, horticultural expertise and facilities to research workers and lecturers.

Donations help the Garden to run our education outreach programmes, to maintain our stunning landscapes and to support world-class plant science research.

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Cultivating resilience for the future

The Botanic Garden protects rare and endangered plants; enables researchers to study how plants adapt, survive and flourish in changing environments; and welcomes hundreds of thousands of visitors each year.

To sustain that role in the decades ahead, the Garden must be equipped for the changing climate. We have an urgent need to renew our irrigation system, much of which dates from the Victorian era. The system is increasingly unreliable, inefficient and unable to meet demand during the increasingly hot, dry summers, putting endangered plants and vital research at risk.

Renewing the ring main system and installing new storage tanks to harvest captured rainwater will ensure we can continue to care for the living collection.

Give to the Irrigation Project Fund

Giving in Memory

Making a donation in memory of a friend or relative who enjoyed the Garden is a lovely way to remember them. To make this as easy as possible, we have established the Giving in Memory Fund. This fund supports Garden projects such as landscaping, new plantings and education. For more information, please visit the Botanic Garden’s website.

Give in Memory

If you are a UK taxpayer we may be able to claim Gift Aid on your donation, increasing your gift by 25p for each £1 given, please fill out the Gift Aid information when you donate online.

Contact

To learn more about supporting the Botanic Garden please contact:

Head of Development and Communications, Botanic Garden

Anna Patterson Lee
ap903@cam.ac.uk
+44 (0)1223 336283

Opportunities in this area

Cultivating resilience for the Botanic Garden

We have an urgent need to renew our irrigation system, much of which dates from the Victorian era. The system is increasingly unreliable, inefficient and unable to meet demand during the increasingly hot, dry summers, risking loss of important and endangered accessions.

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Collections, libraries and museums

Cambridge’s collections have multiple lives, embracing public and private histories, personal and scientific interest and the past and the present. They illuminate the wider activities, histories and environments of the people who made them and the worlds they represent.

Plant Sciences

The Department of Plant Sciences carries out high-quality discovery science which contributes to tackling fundamental challenges in global food security, growing a sustainable bioeconomy, and protecting the environment.