"The Friends of St Ann's Well Gardens" is now a registered charity, registration number 11401038. 

The Aims are to promote the preservation, restoration, and improvement of St Ann's Well gardens for the education and benefit of the public, by associating the local authority and local community in a common effort to provide facilities in the interest of social welfare for recreation and leisure time occupation with the object of improving the lives of local inhabitants. Click here to see the constitution.

The Friends of St Ann's Well Gardens was set up in November 2007 to assist with the planning and delivery of the centenary celebrations in 2008.Since then, we have put on several events, produced two issues of our newsletter and regularly updated the website.

We have received grants from Brighton & Hove Council to assist with running costs and buy lighting for events in the Gardens and towards the Spring Festival.  We are working hard to raise money for improvements to the Park with support from Brighton & Hove City Council, the Park Ranger service and the gardeners. The plan is to renovate the Scented garden to create a quiet and peaceful space for visitors of all abilities to enjoy. There will be new plantings of textured and scented flowers and shrubs, raised beds, re-painted railings and new signs. We are hoping to  raise £10,000 and are asking for support from the Big Lottery.

We have already received £1600 from the Co-operative Community Fund towards the creation of  a Historical Trail with weatherproof signs of old photos and pictures; and £600 from Brunswick & Regency Neighbourhood Action Group for a new bird interpretation board, and put in feeding stations for the birds.

Melanie Davis (Chair)

Linda Austin (Secretary)

Natalie Hall & Juliet Bidwell (Treasurer - job share)

Lou Featherstone

Juliette Hunting

Linda McDonald

Co-opted:-

Sarah Heyes(Park Ranger) 

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