Foundation and Friends of The Royal Botanic Gardens Kew

About the charity

Mission: 'To inspire and deliver science-based plant conservation world-wide, enhancing the quality of life' The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew is much more than one of the world's finest showpiece gardens. It's an internationally respected centre of scientific excellence, identifying and classifying plants; researching their structure, chemistry and genetics; collecting and conserving endangered plant species; maintaining reference collections and sharing all this knowledge with interested parties throughout the world.

The Kew Foundation - responsible for raising voluntary income from individuals, grant-making charities and corporate funders - not only helps to fund the organisation but also to raise awareness for Kew's vital contribution to plant conservation and diversity.

The Millennium Seed Bank Partnership (MSBP)

Described by Sir David Attenborough as 'perhaps the most ambitious conservation initiative ever', the MSBP is one of Kew's global conservation projects supported by Kew Foundation.

By collecting and preserving the seeds of the rarest, most threatened and most valuable plants on earth, the growing international collaboration that is the MSBP ensures the survival of plant species now and in the future. To date one and a half billion seeds have been banked in our underground vaults in West Sussex, representing one in ten of the world's plants.

To find out more about our work, visit www.kew.org