Plants4Presents donates quality plants to local charities

Often these plants are strong healthy plants but they have finished flowering for the season, sometimes they might have got a bit neglected or been in their pots too long and really need to be planted out to give them some more space and nutrients. Whatever the reason, we love seeing them bring life to new spaces and joy to schools and communities.

We're delighted to have helped a number of projects already this year but if you are running a project you think we could help with, please do get in touch.

Some of the incredible projects we've supported in 2025

JOFF Youth Hub Peacehaven

Supporting communities in and around Peacehaven, East Sussex, The Joff Youth Hub provides safe spaces for young people and those with special educational needs and disabilities through activities, social groups, and skills workshops. The site was originally built in the 1960s and was no longer fit for purpose, so it closed for a major renovation. Approaching Plants4Presents with a request to decorate the newly refurbished Hub with indoor plants that the young people can learn to water and treat with respect, as well as adding an inviting warmth to the space, and knowing that some of the young people supported by the Hub may not have this warmth and homely feel in their own houses, we were keen to support the initiative with fun and tactile foliage plants and beautiful flowering houseplants.

The centre reopened on the 9th September 2025, and we were so proud to see houseplants donated from our Sussex nursery filling the newly refurbished JOFF Youth Hub.

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  Vibrant Plants

  We picked a range of colourful and tactile plants

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  Making a Space Homely

  Izzy collected the plants directly from the nursery

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  Nurturing Experience

  Young people will be able to learn how to care for plants

Fletching Garden Trail

For one day only, the picturesque village of Fletching, East Sussex, opens its gardens to visitors in support of the village primary school. As long-term supporters of the Garden Trail, it is always a pleasure to donate out of season plants and quality plant seconds to the organisers to sell on their plant stall. Every penny raised from the annual Garden Trail goes to support the school, which was saved from closure in 2019. Six years on, the school is thriving and is an asset to the whole village.

This year's donation selection included garden climbers, shrubs, fruiting trees and flowering annuals. All strong, healthy plants that may have either finished flowering or do not meet our stringent quality checks to send as a special gift.

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  A Big Selection

  The organisers collected a bumper load of plants to sell

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  Village Fun

  The annual village event supports the local primary school

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  Strong Perennials

  We offered a collection of out of season and plants that may not be looking their best

Plants4Presents Fundraises for Brain Injury Charity

In July 2025, we held our first Open Day at the nursery for over 5 years, and it was a roaring success! As we welcomed customers and visitors through the doors, we asked everyone to make a voluntary donation to our chosen charity, Headway Sussex. Based a short walk across the fields from our Sussex glasshouses, Headway Sussex provides vital reablement and support for individuals with acquired brain injuries and their families. Staff from Headway joined us on the day, and visitors were able to find out about their incredible work as they browsed the plants on sale and chatted to the nursery team. Once all the donations were totted up, we were delighted to have raised £277.66 for Headway Sussex.

Missed the Open Day in 2025? Don't worry, we'll be planning more Open Days in 2026. Stay in the loop by sending us a message to [email protected].

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  Supporting a Local Charity

  Headway Sussex are based across the fields from our Sussex nursery

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  Supporting Headway Sussex

  Plants4Presents raised £277.66 for Headway Sussex

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Past projects we've supported

Sensory Garden Project at Shinewater Family Hub

In search of an array of garden plants to stimulate all the senses, we were excited to be part of this community project. Using plants, pots, and materials donated from business and organisations in the Brighton and surrounding East Sussex area, each of the five senses were incorporated into the sensory garden:

• Touch – making sure that if a child was to put their hands on the plants or pots that they would have a soft or textured feel.
• Smell – the project was grateful to receive some wonderful herbs that smell divine! They were even gifted a plant that smells like peanut butter, which will be great for anyone who might have an allergy to nuts, because they can actually get an idea of what they smell like.
• Taste – Herbs together with fruit and vegetable plants were included to grow with the children and their Community Fridge.
• Sight - using vibrant or contrasting colours for the children to look at, the team incorporated solar lights for the darker months and used vibrant, coloured pots.

Sound was probably one of the harder senses to involve. The rustle of the soft leaves or stems will be calming and soothing and the garden will attract birds and insects who bring more colours and sounds with them.

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  Sensory Plants

  Fragrant and edible plants for the sensory garden.

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  Community Project

  Cheryl and Tammi collecting plants from the nursery

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  The Sensory Garden

  We loved seeing the results of all the volunteers hard work

Local school children benefit from monster-sized Spider Plant

Our whopper-sized Spider Plant has now found its forever home. After many years as a 'mother' plant, this stock plant had simply got too big to keep in our glasshouses, so we were delighted to donate it to a Worthing-based primary school. 60 young people have already taken spider plants home to nurture and the gardening club intends to keep up the good work when the kids come back to school in the Autumn.

Spider Plants are a great way to get your little ones into growing houseplants too. If you run a school or after school gardening club and would like a free spider plant to teach propagating please do get in touch.

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  Playground Plants

  To brighten up a new mud kitchen area

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  A Real Monster

  We're so happy to have found such a great home for this mumma plant

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  Holland says Goodbye

  Our nursery cat will miss sleeping in the shade of this beauty

Fletching Bonfire Society uses plant donations to reignite a village tradition

Bonfire Night is a famous Sussex tradition. So when Fletching Bonfire Society reformed after several years away, we wanted to support their fundraising efforts. From donating table centre plants to decorate the hall for their lively Burns Night celebration, to providing out of season and quality plant seconds to their village plant sale. We'll look forward to joining the Society to celebrate their return in October.

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  Raising Funds

  A selection of flowering and edible garden plants and houseplants donated to the Fletching Bonfire Summer Fete

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  Chuffed

  Will looking pretty happy with his haul of plants

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  The Big Day

  Proved a huge success with hundreds of pounds raised from the plant stall

We've also been delighted to support Newick Preschool, Newick Primary School and Fletching Primary School over the years.

More plants available

Are you looking for plant donations for a local charitable cause? If your charity project or event is local to our Sussex nursery and you can collect plants in person, feel free to get in touch. We'll gladly help if we can.

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  More Plants Available

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