Greenfingers Charity

Registered charity 1076640 · since 1999greenfingerscharity.org.uk·United Kingdom·Updated 30 October 2026

At a glance

Open to applications

Rolling, no deadlines · unsolicited applications welcome

Key takeaways

Greenfingers Charity lists children's hospices as the only eligible applicants, so other charities should not apply to it.
If your organisation is a children's hospice, the work fits closely, since the charity creates therapeutic gardens in children's hospices across the UK.
No grant size or typical range is given, so do not assume a figure; start by using the form on its website to talk through a garden project with the charity.
Trustees choose projects by each hospice's specific need and the geographical spread of earlier gardens, and the charity commits only once the funding can be secured and the hospice can maintain the garden, so be ready to show both.
Applications are accepted on a rolling basis, so there is no deadline to wait for.

Overview

Greenfingers Charity is a charity registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales (charity number 1076640).

Greenfingers Charity is a national charity that creates magical, therapeutic gardens for life-limited children and their families and carers, to improve their time in hospices across the UK. It creates Magical Gardens and tranquil spaces for children in hospices, and to date it has completed over 70 gardens in children's hospices across the UK. The Garden Ambassador Programme is the only programme named.

What they fund

Priority Areas

Greenfingers Charity creates inspiring, magical and therapeutic gardens in children’s hospices across the UK. Its work supports life-limited children and their families, friends and carers, creating nature-filled spaces away from the bedside for play, therapies, reflection, relaxation and shared time. It works closely with each hospice to design a scheme for the needs of the hospice and children spending time there. Trustees select hospice garden projects according to each hospice’s specific need and fairness in the geographical spread of previous gardens. The charity uses funds raised to design and build these outdoor spaces, and commits to a project when it can secure the required funding and the hospice can maintain the garden.

Themes

Therapeutic hospice gardens

Geographic Focus

UK.

How to apply

A children's hospice can get in touch through the form on the hospice-in-need page to discuss working with Greenfingers on a garden project.

Who can apply:

If you are a children's hospice

Application success factors

What the charity says:

Trustees select hospice garden projects based on the individual hospice’s specific need and fairness in the geographical spread of previous gardens.
Greenfingers commits to a project once the required funding can be secured and the hospice can maintain the garden.

Where they fund

Where it says it funds

United Kingdom

Similar funders

Funders supporting work similar to Greenfingers Charity.

The Finnis Scott FoundationFixed deadlinesGave £333k

Five years of accounts

Financial year	Income	Expenditure	Grants paid	Accounts document
year to 31 December 2021	£663,609	£557,513	—	Accounts for year to 31 December 2021
year to 31 December 2022	£606,627	£463,053	—	Accounts for year to 31 December 2022
year to 31 December 2023	£647,235	£664,487	—	Accounts for year to 31 December 2023
year to 31 December 2024	£660,949	£490,499	—	Accounts for year to 31 December 2024
year to 31 December 2025	£984,665	£1,249,082	—	Accounts for year to 31 December 2025

— No grants figure for those years.

Figures from the charity’s filed accounts and its register entry. The document icon links to the charity’s entry on the Charity Commission register, where its filed accounts can be found.