Please click on link to view Newsletter: BGT Autumn 2024 Newsletter draft
The Newsletter of the Buckinghamshire Gardens Trust Autumn 2024
Claire, receiving her award from The Gardens Trust for Exceptional Contribution Award.
The Gardens Trust
Exceptional Contribution Award.
The Trustees and Council of Buckinghamshire Gardens Trust are thrilled that Claire de Carle, the Chair, who was nominated by them for The Gardens Trust Annual Volunteer Award, has been awarded by the judging panel a new award the Exceptional Contribution Award.
The judging panel was so impressed by her activities that they decided to create a new award for her “immense contribution to the historic designed landscape sector.” This will become a new, annual award, celebrating outstanding and sustained volunteer contributions over time. Congratulations, on being the first recipient of this new award. It is richly deserved.
Dear Members
I hope you all had an enjoyable summer and now the autumn is here we are thinking ahead to 2025, our events group are busy planning a programme of visits for you all to enjoy, further details will be available in the new year.
Do contact us if you know of any gardens that may be suitable for us to visit, they need to be at least an acre in size, with historical and/or horticultural features and preferably be able to provide the all-important tea and cake. We have some possible venues in mind; however, it is difficult to always find places in county, so we are looking at places in neighbouring counties such as Oxfordshire and have now booked a visit to the garden at Adwell near Thame to see the amazing daffodils.
We are also considering a visit to the rarely accessible, private Getty Library at Wormsley. I have organised a visit previously for the Gardens Trust and everyone thoroughly enjoyed looking at the array of treasures both historical and contemporary; we would need 28 members and guests with the cost between £35-40. Do let me have your thoughts on these suggestions as your feedback is essential to help us plan.
On a more personal note, I would like to thank BGT Council, Members and the Gardeners Network who contributed to my nomination for the Gardens Trust Award. I would particularly like to thank Gwen Miles and Clare Butler for putting the application together and Jane Carlton Smith, secretary of Oxfordshire Gardens Trust for suggesting my nomination in the first place. I was particularly honoured that a new award for ‘Exceptional Contribution’ was created and I was the first recipient.
Thank you for your continuing support and I hope to see some of you at our two remaining Autumn events and at our Christmas Lunch in November.
Early Seasons Greetings
Claire de Carle
Please click on link to view Newsletter: BGT Autumn 2024 Newsletter draft
