Grants and funding

As we approach the end of 2025, I thought it would be helpful to share a fully transparent summary of funding and project expenditure for the year, across the various projects connecting to Britain’s Biggest Living Garden.

Britain’s Biggest Living Garden

Funds are administered and held in ring-fenced accounts by HGS Horticultural Society

• Income:

  • £370 Grant from HGS Trust

  • £2,000 Grant from HGS Residents Association

• Expenditure:

  • No spend in 2025

  • Funds allocated for contribution towards a major biodiversity monitoring project in 2026, in partnership with Earthwatch

HGS Kids Gardening Club:

Funds are administered and held in ring-fenced accounts by St Judes Church

• Income:

  • £500 Grant from HGS Trust

  • £2,000 Grant from HGS Residents Association (towards major investments below)

  • £1,409 from Member donations

  • £998 from sale of plants & pots

  • £595 from Equigrow compost offer

• Expenditure:

  • £3,126 on plants, seeds, compost, materials, tools, food and sundries

  • £952 on shed, racking and base (from RA grant)

  • £480 on Hot Bin Mega composter (from RA grant)

Friends of Lyttelton (& Henrietta Barnett Community Orchard)

Funds are administered and held in ring-fenced accounts by HGS Horticultural Society

• Income

  • £1,700 Grant from HGS Trust towards HB Community Orchard

  • £3,500 Grant from HGS Trust towards Swale & Rain Garden

  • £900 Direct contributions from sponsors towards 3x Planters in Lyttelton

  • £2,730 GoFundMe crowdfunder campaign for 7x Planters in Lyttelton

  • £232.50 private donation towards commemorative tree

• In-Kind

  • £311.98 of equipment

• Expenditure

  • £3,500 on installation of Swale & Rain Garden

  • £2,400 on installation of 10x Planters & Compost fill

  • £562 on plants for planters (purchased wholesale)

  • £327.60 on plaques for planters

  • £86.20 on GoFundMe fees

  • £222.53 on bulbs for planters

  • £25.98 on watering cans

  • £687.72 on plants for rain garden, seeds for meadows & bamboo canes

  • £232.50 on commemorative apple tree (3m) & staking kit

  • £143.95 on Willow arch

  • £399.99 on Lawnmower

  • £272.97 on 3x wooden arches

  • £197.61 on storage unit for lawnmower

• Other grants

  • £5,000 awarded from HGS Trust but not yet drawn towards the cost of installing the circuit path in Lyttelton

  • £20,000 grant application made to National Lottery towards the costs of installing the circuit path in Lyttelton (no decision yet)

  • £110,000 grant application made to Mayor of London Greener Roots fund to cover the cost of circuit path installation (estimated at £55,000), a large drainage project for the Norrice Lea end of the park (estimated at £50,000) and planting around the outside perimeter of the path (which was already consulted with local residents as part of the path consultation). This grant application was not successful

• Other expenditure related to the park

  • This freedom of information response from Barnet Council in response to a request from a local resident details some a further CIL grant that was raised and spent in the park by our local Councillor and a potential grant of £20,000 for 2026 related to flood management. Neither of these have anything to do with the Friends of Lyttelton Group