Registered Charity in Ireland | RCN: 20141004

Get involved

Give a Saturday, a skill, or a standing order

We have no paid fundraisers and no advertising budget. Donations pay for plant stock, lime, tools, volunteer insurance and the free training of young gardeners in south Galway.

One-time gifts

What a single donation does

€25

Plants five native saplings

Irish-provenance bare-root stock

€60

Buys a bag of hot-mixed lime

Roughly two square metres of repointing

€150

Funds one school workshop

Materials, tools and travel for 30 pupils

€500

Rebuilds a metre of collapsed wall

Supervised by our conservation mason

Monthly giving

Regular support keeps the work continuous

Seed Keeper

€10 / month

Maintains our heirloom seed library and nursery consumables year-round.

Wall Warden

€25 / month

Underwrites tools, insurance and safety equipment for a volunteer field day.

Garden Guardian

€50 / month

Sustains a full section of ongoing masonry conservation and its aftercare.

If you are an Irish taxpayer and donate €250 or more in a calendar year, we can reclaim tax on your gift at no cost to you under the Charitable Donation Scheme. We will send you a CHY3 form in January. Donations are acknowledged individually by our Honorary Treasurer.

Volunteer signup

Come out on a field day

No experience needed. Tools, gloves, a safety briefing and lunch are provided. Tell us where you are and when you are free, and our coordinator will be in touch before the next field day.

Corporate partnership

CSR & team volunteering

We host corporate team days on our restoration sites — planting, path work, clearance and nursery potting — and welcome material sponsorship of tools, stone, or plant stock. We do not accept sponsorship that requires signage inside historic garden walls.