Community work

Garden Club of Bermuda Awards $48,500 in Community Grants

The Garden Club of Bermuda is proud to announce its 2025–2026 community donations, distributing $48,500 across six local organizations that share the Club’s commitment to environmental stewardship, sustainability, and community wellbeing.

This year’s recipients are the Bermuda National Trust, Focus Counselling Services, Warwick Academy, BEST, BioQuest, and Waterstart. Together they represent the full breadth of conservation and sustainability work happening across the island — from mapping the genome of the Bermuda cedar tree, to youth eco education, to garden-based rehabilitation programmes and food security initiatives.

The Garden Club is proud to champion these outstanding organisations and wishes them continued success in their important work.

Pictured from left: Diana Chiappa, president of the Garden Club of Bermuda, left, with Dorte Horsfield, Head of Development and Engagement at the Bermuda National Trust; JP Skinner, director at Waterstart; Francoise Palau-Wolffe, librarian at Warwick Academy; Jennifer Flood of BEST; and Jane Clipper of the Garden Club

$40,000 donated to four charities in support of extracurricular youth education programs

We are delighted to have donated $40,000 to four charities in support of extracurricular youth education programs relating to the environment. The recipients are The Bermuda National Trust, The Bermuda Zoological Society, The Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute and Waterstart.

The work that these organizations do, links with the Garden Club’s objectives by providing educational opportunities for our children and will potentially benefit the community at large and future generations.

Pictured Left to right: Betty Dale, GCB; Karen Border, BNT; Stephanie Toro and Ian Walker, BZS; Karla Lacey and Julie Steele BUEI; J.P. Skinner, Waterstart; Jane Clipper GCB.

$5,000 raised for KBB

In its 100th anniversary year, The Garden Club Keep Bermuda Beautiful representative Susan Black presented a $5,000 cheque to KBB, which will enable KBB to purchase litter grabbers and clean-up kits for volunteers.

$3,660 raised for KBB

Garden Club President Cindy Young and Garden Club KBB representative Sue Black present garbage and recycling bags and ‘picker-uppers’ to Ann Hyde of Keep Bermuda Beautiful in June 2019.

Botanical Art Exhibition

Cindy Young’s arrangement for the Botanical Art Exhibition at the Bermuda City Hall, May 2018.

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II’s 90th birthday

The Garden Club’s members are regular contributors each year to the floral decorations for the Government House Queen’s birthday cocktail party, including the occasion of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II’s 90th birthday. Pictured: Jan MacDonald & Karen Smithworking on one of the many beautiful arrangements on display at the Governor’s cocktail party.

$3,000 raised for KBB

During our April 2016 General Meeting, President Anna Fulton (left) presented KBB representative Sue Black with a cheque for $3,000 on behalf of The Garden Club of Bermuda in support of the work done by Keep Bermuda Beautiful, a former offshoot of the Garden Club.

$2,500 towards the Bermuda Railway Trail & Bridges project

At the Garden Club’s General Meeting in October 2015, Tucker Murphy gave an interesting talk on the railway trail and bridges. The Garden Club presented Mr. Murphy with a cheque for $2,500 towards this worthwhile project.

Garden Club pots up for KPMG’s Green Initiative

The Garden Club was asked if it would supply desk plants, handed to the first 50 KPMG employees to arrive at work, as part of KPMG’s Green Initiative. KPMG Bermuda believes that sustainable communities are directly tied to how well we live in our environment. The KPMG Green Committee has a number of annual initiatives and goals which are supported by lunch & learns, quizzes, posters, audits (eg waste and paper usage) and quarterly giveaways. This year they started a Tip of the Month with February being “Improve your indoor air quality with plants and by keeping your home and office well ventilated”. President Susan Conyers and a small group took on the project, the results of which can be seen above. The project was hailed a success, so much so that KPMG are planning to repeat it. A donation by KPMG was made which will be applied to our annual Scholarships, and Community activities.

$10,000 raised for KBB

The Garden Club of Bermuda donated $10,000 in 2015 towards Keep Bermuda Beautiful’s (KBB) fundraising drive. KBB was originally an offshoot of The Garden Club, and they are delighted to be able to support this very worthwhile organisation. The presentation was made at our January 2015 General Meeting.