Events It’s time to enjoy more of the outdoors

THE NATIONAL TRUST The National Trust has announced it’s reopening 29 gardens and parklands across England and Northern Ireland from the beginning of June. The move comes after the UK government updated its advice on ticketed garden venues advising the public in England that they can now visit gardens and land maintained for public use. However the indoor areas such as houses, shops and cafés will remain closed for now. This will mean that if you’d like to visit you will have to pre-purchase your ticket.

To find out which gardens are open and how to purchase tickets, visit www.nationaltrust.org.uk

We want to provide safe, local, welcoming spaces for people, and wherever possible we will open our gardens and parks, and coast and countryside car parks. The fresh air, bird song, big skies and open “ ©National Trust Images/Chris Lacey spaces people have missed will be there, but things will be very different, particularly at first. We want to thank people for their support while we gradually begin reopening and welcoming our visitors. - Hilary McGrady, Director General at the National Trust ”

FIND A GARDEN NEAR YOU! The National Garden Scheme has more than 3,500 fabulous private gardens in England and Wales in its portfolio and raises impressive amounts of money for nursing and health charities through admissions, (teas and cake in normal times).

This organisation doesn’t just open beautiful gardens for charity – it’s also passionate about the physical and mental health benefits of gardens too, and supports charities doing amazing work in gardens and supports community gardening projects.

To find out about gardens open near you visit www.ngs.org.uk