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The National Gardens Scheme
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The National Gardens Scheme has been opening fine gardens to the public to raise money for charity for over 75 years. So, lets take a look back at how the Scheme began and how it has grown from the creative entwining of two strands of our heritage - the national passion for gardening, and the deeply embedded desire to help those in need. The Scheme's continuing success in raising funds for its beneficiaries indicates how relevant those enthusiasms remain today.
In 1859, a philanthropic Liverpool merchant, William Rathbone, gained much comfort from employing a nurse to care for his dying wife in her own home. Aware of the plight of the poor, for whom there was no such provision, he asked her to finish her contract by tending to them. Convinced by this experiment, he raised funds for the recruitment, training and employment of nurses to go into the deprived areas of the city, which he divided into 'districts', each with an honorary 'Lady Superintendent'. This initiative was to be the beginning of 'District' Nursing. By the end of the 19th century, this regional scheme had been widely copied, and, with the help of Florence Nightingale and the warm approval of Her Majesty the Queen, became 'Queen Victoria's Institute': a national voluntary organisation responsible for setting standards and training nurses for duty in the new countrywide District Nursing Service.
Most gardens which open for the Scheme are privately owned and open just a few times each year. Other gardens, which open to the public on a regular or commercial basis, also kindly contribute to the Scheme in various ways.
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