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Our Mission and Vision
Our Mission – What we do every day, and always will:
- Preserve and maintain Warwick’s restored Victorian pleasure gardens as a charitable trust.
- Develop the site as a welcoming, accessible-for-all environmentally responsible, and financially sustainable, visitor attraction.
- Inform, engage, and inspire people so they enjoy the Gardens’ horticultural relevance and social history.
Our Vision – How we are working for a successful future
- Preserve the integrity of our horticulturally historic site married with eco-friendly advancements.
- Succeed by ensuring that Hill Close Gardens is a welcoming and informative green space.
- Be powered by people with a passion for the Gardens.
Our plan for a successful future:
Objective 1
Preserve the integrity of our horticulturally historic site married with eco-friendly advancements, develop innovative and relevant practices & advancements so the Gardens remain a financially sustainable and environmentally responsible attraction for visitors.
Strategy:
- Continue to nurture and develop the volunteer-designed gardens as well-maintained, diverse, and unique, individual plots.
- Extending plot variety and developing the gardens’ hard landscaping and structure.
- Developing environmentally responsible initiatives, such as energy generation via solar power, composting, and water-harvesting projects.
Objective 2
Succeed by ensuring that Hill Close Gardens is a welcoming and informative green space – for our volunteers, visiting garden enthusiasts, social history lovers, and families.
Strategy:
- Sustain and enhance existing garden schemes and developing new ones.
- By offering the local community – of all ages – engaging reasons to visit the gardens, from educational activities for pre-schoolers and younger nature lovers, to themed events relevant to our environment.
Objective 3
To be powered by people with a passion for the Gardens, as they first were 100+ years ago when they were a place for people who had a need and passion for having their own green space.
Strategy:
- Be supported by our employees, volunteers, and trustees who share a passion and want to share the Gardens’ story with visitors.
- Maintaining and developing an environment of support to enable volunteers to deliver on the Management, Garden, and Children & Families teams’ objectives.