All the speakers have a personal connection with Horatio’s Garden, making Horatio’s Garden’s annual Carol Concert a particularly special occasion. Sheffield-born Dominic West is appeal patron of the charity’s latest garden currently being built at the Northern General Hospital in Sheffield – a smaller version of which won Best in Show at RHS Chelsea Flower Show last year. Well-known nature writer and academic Robert Macfarlane regularly hosts creative workshops for people with spinal injuries in Horatio’s Garden London & South East.
They will also be joined by The Countess of Radnor, President of Horatio’s Garden and former patient at Horatio’s Garden London & South East Pia Gupta, alongside the choir of St Mary Abbots Parish Church. Following the concert, guests will savour the festive spirit with a mince pie and glass of fizz.
Dr Olivia Chapple, Chair of Trustees at Horatio’s Garden said: “Please join us this year for a fantastic evening of candlelit carols with some brilliant readers and musicians. This year across the UK hundreds of people with spinal injuries will be spending Christmas in hospital wards, not at home with the families they love. At Horatio’s Garden, we work hard to bring the festive spirit into the gardens for people to find joy and time with their families when they need them the most and we’re so grateful for all the support that enables us to do this.”
Generously supported by STIFEL Europe, Aldrich & Co. and Oliver Bernard, all proceeds will directly support Horatio’s Garden, helping the charity to continue supporting people adjusting to life-changing spinal injuries in beautiful, vibrant gardens within the heart of NHS spinal injury centres.
To date, the charity has opened seven gardens in the South West, Scotland, Stoke Mandeville, Midlands, London & South East, Wales and Northern Ireland. Horatio’s Garden Sheffield & East, the charity’s eighth garden, will be a significantly enlarged version of the design which won Best in Show at RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2023. Designed by Harris Bugg Studio, the garden will open at the Princess Royal Spinal Cord Injuries Centre in spring 2025.
Details and booking information for Horatio’s Garden’s annual Carol Concert in London can be found here.