The Landscape Design Trust is a registered charity and company limited by guarantee. We promote landscape for the benefit of the environment and the community and do this by:

promoting dialogue

We stimulate debate between and within professions and communities on issues relating to landscape.

community engagement

We engage with the community, particularly hard-to-reach groups, to encourage greater access to landscape and the natural environment.

encouraging good practice

We support those working in landscape related fields or on landscape related projects by providing them with appropriate resources.

Underpinning all our activities is a belief in the following values:

partnership

As a small organisation, partnership working enables us to become more than the sum of our parts. New partners and alliances allow us to increase our sphere of influence, reach new funds, enable and deliver new services and reach more people. We will not do anything alone if we can do it better with others.

equal opportunity

We do not represent a single profession or group of people and so are able to work across professional, cultural and political boundaries. We will treat all people fairly and with respect whether users, staff, suppliers, partners or volunteers.

transparency

The Trust believes in being transparent and open about its decisions and with its information.

playfulness

We want to convey our belief in the power of landscape to uplift and improve quality of life. As an independent organisation we have a level of freedom which will hopefully allow us to be playful and sometimes provocative.