The Landscape Design Trust is a national environmental education charity and a company limited by guarantee. We operate as a social enterprise and are almost entirely self-funded.

Our mission is to advance understanding and awareness of the landscape for the benefit of the environment and the community.

Our charitable objectives:

• The promotion of the advancement of landscape arts and sciences for the benefit of the environment and the community
• The promotion of education in and research into the skills associated with the landscape and the dissemination of knowledge in this subject to the widest possible public
• The promotion of the highest standards of professional competence in the application of landscape arts and sciences

What We Do

Over the last 20 years, we have developed primarily as a publishing house, using journals, books, and our website to disseminate information about the landscape to the widest possible audience.

We have also variously been involved in creating competition guidelines and advising on major landscape and garden design competitions, attendance at exhibitions and trade and consumer shows, organising seminars and lectures, and supporting the establishment of Westonbirt International Festival of Gardens and the promotion of the International Garden Festival of Métis, Canada.

The Landscape Design Trust is an enabler and facilitator for those with complementary objectives and we are proud to have established links with a wide variety of organisations and individuals engaged with the landscape and the environment. We seek to bring those with similar interests together to forge new links and partnerships and to break down traditional barriers within and between disciplines and professions.

Our philosophy is based on the belief that the quality of urban and rural landscape is fundamental to the quality of life. Raising awareness of the landscape is therefore essential to the health of the local community, the population and the planet.

Landscape is about the relationship between people and place. People's perceptions turn land into the concept of landscape.