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Corporate Opportunities
Opportunities for Sponsorship
The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew is fundamentally a scientific and educational organisation and a window onto the world's plants in the heart of west London. Kew is working in partnership with organisations around the world to help secure a future for some of the most threatened species and habitats before they are lost forever. Its global mission can only be achieved through partnership and with support from others. To find out more about the ways in which you can work with us to fight to protect the world’s plants click below:
Conservation
Research
The Gardens and Collections
The Millennium Seed Bank Project
Education
Festivals and events
Conservation
Kew has been involved in many aspects of plant conservation for decades – working at home and abroad with local communities providing data on threatened species, advising on legislation, providing offsite safe havens for threatened species, carrying out micropropagation and reintroduction of species habitat restoration and capacity building through an extensive and advanced training programme.
Increasingly Kew is working in partnership with the corporate sector to reduce environmental impact and encourage environmental responsibility. Through direct collaboration and corporate support of relevant environmental programmes, Kew and your company can ensure vital conservation work on a global scale.
Research
About 25% of modern medicines, including familiar drugs such as aspirin and codeine, are derived from plants or were developed originally from chemicals produced by plants. Despite this only a small proportion of the world’s plants have been investigated for potentially beneficial compounds. Kew is a leader in the study of plants for medicinal uses and continues to work with companies to sustainably exploit this new potential.
Your support could help us continue our search to find new treatments
for some of the world’s most common diseases.
The Gardens and Collections
Kew and Wakehurst Place are among the most beautiful gardens in the country but their beauty is more than skin deep. Our collection of more than 40,000 species of plants is the largest and most diverse collection of living plants in the world. While the gardens are a major attraction for visitors, they also provide an essential resource for Kew’s scientists. The Living Collection provide a living library of plants from around the world while the Herbarium houses a collection of more than 7 million preserved plants and fungal specimens. These collections provide the basis for research into a wide range of plant subjects by Kew scientists and researchers from around the world. Sponsorship and new creations within the gardens can help to align your brand with Kew's.
Supporters have funded lilac, peony, azalea and philadelphus
gardens. You could support the creation of a new Kew collection, providing
both an additional attraction for visitors and aid a valuable scientific
resource.
The Millennium Seed Bank Project (MSBP)
The Millennium Seed Bank Project is the most ambitious international plant conservation project ever undertaken. It will provide an extinction safety net for 10% of the world’s seed-bearing plants by 2010. This includes all of the UK native flora that have seeds that can be banked - some 1,400 species. The capacity building activities of the MSBP address international commitments to training in the conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity and its components.
Company support of the project will aid seed collecting overseas
by Kew scientists as well as partner scientists and local communities,
many of which are themselves the stakeholders of global corporations.
Education
Education is a crucial aspect of Kew’s work. The fate of the world’s environment will depend on a great extent on the actions and decisions of future generations, so it is essential to inspire an appreciation and understanding of nature in today’s children. The Schools Education Programme caters for over 60,000 school children each year, both at Kew itself and Wakehurst Place.
Corporate support and involvement in education will enable us
to open the eyes of future generations to the importance of plants in
our everyday lives while enriching their learning experience.
Festivals and Events
The seasonal visitor programme of festivals and special events provide unique opportunities for your company to support and be associated with the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in a creative and original way. Events such as the Orchid Festival, Summer Swing and Shakespeare at Kew, as well as spring, summer, autumn and winter festivals such as Woodland Wonders and Autumn Cornucopia, are all available for sponsorship. Find out what’s on at Kew Gardens and Wakehurst Place.
Contact:
For more information about corporate sponsorship opportunities please contact our Corporate Sponsorship Manager:
Rhiannon Phillips
Email: r.phillips@kew.org
Tel: +44 (0)20 8332 3233