About us

Association registration No: W232001865
INPI registration No: 14 4 073 259

SIRET No: 818 380 198 00015

Welcome to Open Gardens/Jardins Ouverts, a registered association which encourages owners to open their gardens to the public. Admission is by an annual Membership Card (15 €) which entitles the holder to visit any of the gardens throughout the year on their stated open days. The vast majority of the proceeds are donated to charitable organisations in France with a small amount retained to run the association itself.

Started in 2013 with a small trial of just 4 gardens in the Creuse, the association has grown rapidly and currently has more than 150 gardens in over a quarter of the départements in France.

Since we started, our main beneficiary has been an association which organises activities for children in remission from cancer (achacunsoneverest.com) and in that year, our donation was 300 €. More recently, we have extended the range of supported charities, mainly directed towards those supporting disabled or ill children and in 2019, our donations totalled 17 500 €, of which 12 000 € was given to A Chacun son Everest. Thanks to all of the volunteers, sponsors, visitors and helpers, we have donated over 93 000 € to 17 worthy causes in our first 7 years.

In a very short space of time, the success of Open Gardens/Jardins Ouverts has been amazing and our aim is that it should continue to grow and that, by 2021, there will be gardens throughout France proudly bearing our logo.
We are always keen to hear from anyone who wishes to help us in achieving this goal, particularly in one of these three ways:

• Simply by visiting some of the beautiful gardens in our scheme
• Opening your garden
• Being a local coordinator
• Become a 'Friend of Open Gardens/Jardins Ouverts'

Our guiding principle of “Gardening & Generosity” epitomises the two themes of our association and the concept of visiting beautiful gardens in the knowledge that you are also helping worthy causes brings pleasure to all who are involved.

We look forward to hearing from you.