Help us to restore Kew’s Temperate House

This is an iconic building, as beautiful as it is important. We are determined to fully restore its glories.

Professor Stephen D Hopper FLS, Director, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Kew's Temperate House needs your help

The Temperate House is the largest surviving Victorian glasshouse structure in the world, originally opened in 1863. It has undergone a number of major refurbishments over the years, the last one commencing 35 years ago.

The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) has given the green light to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew to develop plans to restore the Temperate House and its surrounding landscape – development funding of £890,900 was awarded to help progress plans for the £28m project.

Kew needs to raise an additional £13m for the Temperate House scheme alongside a total of £15m funding being applied for from the HLF – and your donation will help.

The Temperate House embodies all that Kew is about – rich heritage, world class plant collections and the importance of plants to people’s lives. 

The £28m restoration project will be undertaken in a sequential, staged manner lasting up to eight years. Kew’s plans include a comprehensive restoration of the Temperate House and its surrounding landscape and converting the adjoining Evolution House into an engagement centre; restructuring the horticultural displays as well as rejuvenating the existing historic botanical collection; setting up a community outreach programme with an accompanying apprenticeship scheme and volunteer programme; and creating a new arm to Kew’s schools education programme which will encourage children to learn more about plants and climate change.

Your donation can make a difference

Kew needs your help if we are to be able to carry out this complex and ambitious restoration. Please make a donation today and become a part of the campaign to renew and reinvigorate Kew’s Temperate House.

Whether you visit the Gardens and the Temperate House regularly, or haven’t yet had an opportunity to visit, you can play a part in saving our heritage and securing our future.

Please make a donation today to the Kew Fund, or pick up a leaflet next time you are in the Gardens.

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Introducing the Kew Fund

The Kew Fund is an annual fundraising campaign that pools the collective force of thousands of individuals to make a big impact with their contributions at Kew. Through the Kew Fund, we ask members and supporters to make a contribution to support our extraordinary institution.

Kew relies on a mix of funding including philanthropy, government grants from Defra, as well as memberships, gate receipts and other earned income. Kew’s annual budget is around £50 million, of which almost 50 per cent is provided by non-government sources.

Every contribution, no matter what size, makes a difference to Kew. You can make a regular gift by Direct Debit, or give by credit/debit card online (or download a form to post). We’ll keep you in touch with how your support is helping Kew.