Dear Mrs Bowman,
I
would like to ask for your help please - at the RHS we want to
mobilise the biggest gardening army across the nation since ‘Dig
for Victory’ over 80 years ago and as a valued member I hope we can
count on your support. As we discussed at our new RHS Sustainability
Strategy Launch in the Houses of Parliament last night, the
RHS believes that the actions of each and every one of our nation’s
30 million gardeners with their 700,000 hectares of gardens can help
mitigate the climate and biodiversity crisis,
and help solve some of the mental and physical health issues we are
suffering, especially as a result of the pandemic.
We
want you to be the first to hear about our new ambitious
Sustainability Strategy, which includes an exciting nationwide RHS
Planet-Friendly Gardening Campaign,
details of which you can see below. Within
the decade the RHS aims to become net
positive for nature and people and
to enable and support the gardening public to do the same. This means
we will improve biodiversity, as well as remove and store more carbon
from the atmosphere than we produce, and that we will actively and
consciously improve the health and wellbeing of as many people as
possible through gardening.
We are committed to leading by
example by setting sustainability targets for our own operations that
provide benefits for both nature and people. These targets
include eliminating
all single-use plastic, being peat free by 2025 and being water
neutral.
We want all our activities to be truly inclusive, and to be available
to all communities across the UK.
Your
membership support is appreciated more than ever and
will directly help us mobilise this campaign. Thank you so much, and
we hope you enjoy the first ever September Chelsea, coming to you
soon in person, online and on the BBC!
All the best,
Sue Biggs
CBE, Director General
This campaign includes ten easy gardening tasks which will make a real difference to the environment and biodiversity. We'd love you and all our members to share these tips with your communities, friends and family. Tasks include growing fruit, vegetables and flowers, switching to rainwater and pulling up a paving slab or two to make room for some bee-loving perennials! We need your help to spread the word about planet-friendly gardening.
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