About us
Chiswick House and Gardens Trust is a registered charity (no. 1109239) which manages the Grade I-listed and Scheduled Ancient Monument – Chiswick House. In addition, we manage the 65-acre Grade I, award-winning Gardens and 21 listed garden buildings and statues, on behalf of English Heritage and London Borough of Hounslow.
We are proud that Chiswick House and Gardens are internationally recognised as a place of historic significance in architectural and garden history.
We also care for and manage the Grade I-listed Conservatory which was designed by the architect Samuel Ware in 1813 and substantially remodelled in about 1930. The Conservatory houses the largest collection of heritage camellias under glass in the world.
The Walled Garden we also care for dates back to 1682 and was converted into a community Kitchen Garden by a group of local volunteers in 2005 – it is now a vital community outreach resource.
Our vision and aims
We decided that is important that we set out a future path, for ourselves, funders and supporters. We shared our draft strategy in September 2020 in the midst of the pandemic – and thank all of those who took the time to read and feedback. We set out a renewed Vision: to be a place for everyone every day; and a new Mission: to conserve our historic, horticultural, and natural heritage for our visitors, sustain and improve our biodiversity, and support our local community’s health and wellbeing.
Bringing clarity to why we exist and our purpose has helped us, throughout the pandemic, to focus on making choices that have broadened our reach, made us more relevant to more people, and enhanced our natural environment.
We are pleased to publish our Strategy which sets out our plans for Chiswick House and Gardens Trust over the next ten years.
Download the Ten Year Strategy.
Our vision is to be a special place to delight, educate and be inspired by our 300 years of stories of influence, design and environment.
For everyone every day.
And our mission is to conserve our historic, horticultural and natural heritage for our visitors; sustain and improve our biodiversity and support our local community’s health and wellbeing.
This strategy, along with our continued focus on fundraising, will help to secure our short-term future for our daily visitors while we build more long-term financial sustainability. This will allow us to continue investing in our community outreach, public programme and learning activities to broaden our reach and diversity.
In the meantime we remain absolutely committed to keeping our gardens open – for everyone, every day.