Conservation Foundation News
News Archive
| Garden Centre Group Tool Amnesty on now | |
119 garden centres in England and Wales are collecting for Tools Shed in February |
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| New chairman for The Conservation Foundation | |
Matthew Bennett and two new directors join the Board |
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| James Coleman arrives at the Foundation | |
Sussex University post-graduate joins our team |
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| Ulmus Londinium | |
Watch David Shreeve tell the London elm story on Chiswick TV |
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| Green Corners at the Garden Museum | |
London’s Green Corners Awards go on show |
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| David Shreeve meets the Pope | |
Conservation Foundation Director was presented at Holyroodhouse |
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| Gardening Against The Odds Awards | |
Read about the inspiring winner, runners up and Awards of Merit |
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| Send a difference instead of a Christmas card | |
Turn your Christmas card into an elm at See The Difference |
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| Autumn comes to London's Green Corners | |
The first autumn winners in London’s Green Corners Awards have been announced with prizes going to gardeners in Enfield, Twickenham, Sydenham and West Norwood. |
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| O2's Think Big backed website bridges generational divide | |
'Why do' campaign helps adults 'get' young people |
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| High Down Prison's first Tools Shed giveaway | |
Almost 30 schools and community groups pick up free tools |
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| Green and Gorgeous | |
The latest Green Corners Awards winners announced |
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| Stephen Fry and Alastair Campbell tweet our elms | |
Elm enthusiasts flock to See The Difference |
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| Kew Tools for Tools Shed | |
Collecting tools from the Royal Botanic Gardens |
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| The Foundation's Katie Hyson swims the Hellespont | |
And runs the length of Hadrian's Wall |
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| Announcing July's Green Corners winners | |
Lambeth and Islington were July's greenest boroughs |
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| Wessex Watermark Award for Midsomer Norton | |
Midsomer Norton Tawny Owl project receives £400 award |
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| Ten Year Check Up for Millennium Yews | |
Did you plant one of the Foundation's yew trees? |
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| Free garden tools | |
Does your school of community garden need tools? |
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| Flourishing Elms | |
David Shreeve visits the Foundation's first chairman and his fine elm trees |
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| Eleven Green Corners win a June award | |
Flaming June brings on a bumper crop of winners |
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| Elm cartoon on See The Difference | |
The Conservation Foundation is one of the first charities to join new fundraising website |
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| It's Your Community winner on Britain's Got Talent | |
A3 reached the semi finals |
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| Foundation helps save veteran yew | |
Angmering Church yew is saved |
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| Announcing the first Green Corners winners | |
Four very different green corners win an award for April |
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| Notcutts Garden Centres backs Tools Shed | |
'Rake out your old tools' campaign collects tools at centres around the country this month |
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| Tools Shed collection at Muswell Hill garden | |
Artists Susan Bennett and Earl Hyde are collecting tools at their summer charity garden openings |
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| Chelsea show garden is being built with recycled tools | |
Eden Project’s Places of Change garden uses Tools Shed tools |
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| Recycle tools at Open Gardens Squares Weekend | |
Broken and unwanted tools can be recycled at any Capital Gardens centre |
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| The Conservation Foundation seeks a new Chair | |
An exciting time to join the Foundation's Board |
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| Somewhere over the rainbow | |
George Stephenson's Rocket will steam through Kensington Gardens |
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| Parliamentary support for the elms | |
MPs are signing up to an Early Day Motion in support of The Great British Elm Experiment |
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| Tools Amnesty | |
In February 119 Garden Centre outlets collected for Tools Shed |
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| Wessex Watermark winner | |
Watermark award for Blandford Forum's parish centre |
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| The Great British Elm Experiment | |
Our new national elm planting campaign |
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| Announcing the latest Young Scientists for Rainforests award winner | |
Winner has documented plants of medicinal value in Kenya’s only rainforest |
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| Celebrating 21 years at the RGS | |
The It's Your Community exhibition marked our 21st anniversary |
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| Tools Shed tool giveaway | |
Over 70 schools and community gardens came to the Tools Shed garden tool giveaway |
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