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Sponsors of the Millennium Seed Bank

We would like to give special thanks to the following organisations whose support has helped to make the Millennium Seed Bank Project a reality:

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Maite García Urtiaga

 

Anglo American plc

British Airways plc

Esmée Fairbairn Foundation

GlaxoSmithKline

The Maurice Laing Foundation

The Philecology Trust

The Rufford Foundation

Tate & Lyle PLC

 

AXA UK plc

British American Tobacco

English Nature

The Kirby Laing Foundation

Marks & Spencer plc

Shell International

In addition, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs supports all of Kew's programmes through annual Grant-in-Aid.

 

Major Millennium Seed Bank Supporters

The 29th May 1961 Charitable Trust
The Andersen Consulting Foundation
The Astor Foundation
The Bromley Trust
Mrs Ruth Gwendolen Burton
The Clothworkers’ Foundation
The John Coates Charitable Trust
Giles and Sonia Coode-Adams
The Ernest Cook Trust
Courage Charitable Trust
The Cray Trust
Danfoss Limited
Elizabeth Denham,
   in memory of Walter Denham
The D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust
The Dulverton Trust
The John Ellerman Foundation
Mr A K Elliot
In memory of Miss Isabel M Evens
Foreign & Colonial Management
   Smaller Companies plc
Mr J E Francis
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
In memory of Jim Haggit
The Hamamelis Trust
The Miss K M Harbinson’s Charitable Trust
The Roderick Harbinson Charitable Trust
The Philip & Pauline Harris Charitable Trust
The Hawthorne Charitable Trust
Robin Herbert
The Children of Hill School, Westerham

 

Mr & Mrs G Hollingbery
The Homeland Foundation (USA)
Jane Humphries
In loving memory of Elizabeth Joyce,
   given by her sister Una Hanwell
The Ernest Kleinwort Charitable Trust
The Leverhulme Trust
LGT Asset Management Charitable Trust
McVitie’s (UK)
The Normanby Charitable Trust
The Ofenheim & Cinderford Charitable Trusts
Denise Victoria Oppenheim-Blum,
 ( known as Vikki)
In memory of Mrs Beatrice Mary Parkes
In memory of Miss Elsie Pearce
Mrs M Pera
The Cecil Pilkington Charitable Trust
Mr & Mrs J A Pye’s Charitable Settlement
The Reuter Foundation
Rio Tinto plc
In memory of John Russell
The Sandra Charitable Trust
Seeds of Change
Smith Industries plc
South Square Trust
Mrs P D Walker
Wallis Genetic Foundation, Inc
The Col W H Whitbread Charitable Trust
Mrs A P Williams
The H D H Wills 1965 Charitable Trust
The Wyndham Charitable Trust

The many scientific partners of the Millennium Seed Bank Project make a large and fundamental contribution to the project, not only through the provision of staff time, facilities and equipment, but also through the sharing of their botanical knowledge and skill.

 

Millennium Seed Bank Benefactors

Mr K L Adams
Mr Michael Adler
Agroserve Ltd
Mr Ian Alcock
Michael Heathcoat Amory
Mrs A Baer
Mrs V Bainbridge
Lawrence Banks
Peter & Julia Barton
Mr Robert P Bauman
Sir William Benyon
Mrs A Binnerts
Barbara H Blagg
David P Bowers
Sir Jeffery Bowman
Keith (Toby) Bromley
Professor Barry Buzan FBA
David K Clarke CBE
Ruth M Comfort
Mr & Mrs D M Compton
Mrs Kathleen Louise Cook BSc
Mr S A M Corcoran
Mrs Barbara Craig
The Lord Hamilton of Dalzell
The Hon John Dewar Charitable Trust
Miss Dorothy Diamond
Mrs B Digby-Jones
The Eddie Dinshaw Foundation
Sir Harry Djanogly CBE
The Marchioness of Dufferin & Ava
Mr R Alec Edge
In memory of Reg & Doris Elphick
In memory of Issy Evens
Mr A D A W Forbes
J M G Fraser
Miss A G Gibbs
Mrs J M Gordon
Miss Evelyn A Goldie (Sally)
The Hon P N Gibson
Mr P E Goldsmith
Mrs J K V Graham MBE
Mrs Mavis W Gray
Miss Marion Gratwick
The Bryan Guinness Charitable Trust
The Haberdashers’ Company
Mr Peter Alexander Harris
Mr D J Haunton
Miss Diana Holtham
John C Hubble
In memory of Michael Hymas
William & Irene Judge
Mr J D Kimber
Harold & Joan Lambert
The family of the late Dr John A Laurenson
   BSc MBChB of Dunbar, East Lothian
Mr & Mrs Murray Lawrence
Dr Pamela Le Couteur
Dr Margaret E Leigh
Mr Denis E Lift

Tamasin B Little
Colleen M Loney
Miss A J Mangold
Dr Mary L McKenna
Amos & Sarah McMaster-Christie
Mr David Mattimoe
David Milne QC
Mrs Lynette Mitchell
Mrs G Moss
Mr R F Mounsey
Dr Peter K Nelson
Mrs Sheila Nemet
Mrs H A Newton
HRH Princess Alexandra the Hon Lady Ogilvy &
   the Rt Hon Sir Angus Ogilvy KCVO
The Lord Palumbo
Mrs Pamela Parker
Miss Elizabeth Peskett
Mrs Pauline H Pinder
Mrs Delma Prance
Mrs V Quin
Miss Marie-Louise Rabouhans
Lord Rayner
The Viscount Ridley
Mrs Maureen Robertson
The Rt Hon Lord Rootes
Mrs Jean H Rose
The Edmund de Rothschild 1966
Charitable Trust
Mr Andre Rzym
The Samuel Storey Family Charitable Trust
Ms Judie Sandeman-Allen
In memory of Arthur Scott
James & Shirley Sherwood
Mr Martin N Smith
Dennis & Kathleen Smith Charity
Mr Graham Stacy
Trevor Thomas Stamp
Mr P D Staniford
The Steel Charitable Trust
Margaret Stones
John H V Sutcliffe CBE DL
In memory of Mr J B Sweeney
Marian Thomas
Dr Graeme Thomson
The Tanner Trust
Mr Hugh B Tucker
The Underwood Family
Ms Francesca Verney
Miss E C Vollans
Miss Olave D G Wade
Mr & Mrs Hady Wakefield
Mrs Honoré Wamsler
Dr Anne R Wells
Mrs H B M Whitbread
Mrs S Wigglesworth
Mr W J & Mrs V A Worth
Marjorie A Wrencher
The John Younger Trust


Millennium Seed Bank Tree Sponsors

Kenneth L Adams
Mr M Adler
Mrs A E C Alvis & JoAnne Alvis
Mr S W Andrew & Family
Mr & Mrs F Armstrong
Miss Rosemary Arnot
Mr J F Ashton
Miss Joan Bartlett
May L D Beckett
Roy Berry - for Kay Berry of Croydon
The Bleasdale Family
Mrs M Bolton
Mrs Naomi Booth
Miss Valerie M Booth
Mr & Mrs V R Christophers
Mr & Mrs Claridge & Mr & Mrs Hambelton
Miss C B Clarke
Rosemary F Collict
Mr M J Crompton
Shirley & Nigel Currah
Mrs Carole Dale
Miss Jacqueline Doughty
Mrs Betty Downey
Miss June Edwards of Ramsgate
Friends & Family of Sheila Evans
Mrs Peter Fawcett
Robert & Gwyneth Fowles & Family
Mr J M Geraghty
Mr & Mrs Piers Gibson
In memory of Lilian & Alfred Goddard
Mrs J W Goodwin, Professor J Eastoe
   & Mrs B Eastoe
Fred Gutteridge
Family of the late A R Hack
In memory of Jean Hall
Mr R Hayward
Family & Friends of Frank Hill
Miss Celia Jarratt
Anne, Corinne, Stephen & Selina Johnson
Mr B G Johnson
Mrs J Johnson
Colin W Jones
Mrs V M Jones
Family, friends & colleagues of
   Colin F Keiller
The Kempton Family
Mr & Mrs J Kimber
The King Family, Forest Row
Mr P W Lane
Leatherhead & District Countryside &  Protection Society

Mr & Mrs Hugh D Linnell
In memory of R E D Lister
Gordon David Little
Mr P Lloyd
In memory of Adrianne Mary Lock
Colleen M Loney
Mr A H Long, MBE
Mr & Mrs C Long
Joan, Richard & Rachel Lunn
John Martin
Mary Elizabeth Miles
Mr Richard Foster Mounsey
Miss Marie Osborne
Ms B Peachey
Mrs J E Perkins
Planet Organic
Professor Sir Ghillean & Lady Prance
Mrs E Pratt
Jane & Norman Price
Mrs Mavis Priestley & Family
Melanie, Charlotte, Verity & John Renowden
Miss N K Roper
Ms D M Ross
Derek Sherwin & Family
Mrs E A Smith
Jane, Paul, Richard & Helen Smith
Ken & Maureen Smith
Ms M M Smith
Mrs Kimiko Sogi
Jeanette, Lyn & Robin Stammwitz
Harry John Stewart
Bob Taylor
In memory of Gordon Alan Taylor
The Family of Sidney Taylor
Dr Peter Thompson
David, Peter & Graham Topley
Mr J P Tregear
The children & grandchildren of
   Doris & Arthur Vaughan
Miss E C Vollans
The Volunteer Guides RBG Kew
Mr M Wallis
Mr & Mrs S C Warwick
Professor R B & Mrs R M Welbourn
From all Bill Wenban-Smith’s grandchildren
Mr M West, OBE
David Westmarland
Joan & Ken Wilby
Mrs Charles Wingfield
Miss M A Wrencher

The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew would also like to thank all our other supporters, too many to mention, who have contributed to and believed in the Millennium Seed Bank Project.

Page last updated: 30 March 2007