Your ongoing support and generosity helps us to enrich everyone’s life through plants and make the UK a greener and more beautiful place – see what policies and statements help govern and achieve our vision
The Society is committed to promoting Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) at the RHS; across all our work in Shows, Gardens, Communities, Science, Education, Art, in our magazines, books, online and other media; and in the wider horticultural industry.
The RHS cares for the finest collection of horticultural literature and archives in the world, assembled over more than two centuries. We want to understand, share and enhance that heritage and knowledge in an inclusive way to understand garden heritage and to engage with audiences.
In accordance with the Occupational Pension Schemes (Administration and Disclosure) (Amendment) Regulations 2018, we have published the RHS 1974 Pension Scheme’s Statement of Investment Principles.
Read our latest Gender Pay Gap Report, which measures the difference in average hourly pay between men and women across all workers at the RHS.
We are committed to ensuring modern slavery is not present in our supply chains and have introduced, and will continue to develop, policy and procedures to manage the way we obtain goods and services to keep our supply chains robust and free from modern slavery.
Your privacy, and security of your personal information, are of the highest importance to us.
We're committed to providing exceptional service to our customers - to help us achieve this we welcome all types of feedback. Let us know what you think via our online feedback form
We want to be a catalyst for change towards peat-free gardening. Working with our networks and using our experience as an exemplar, we aim to be 100% peat free in all our operations by 2025.
We encourage gardeners to help our declining bees and other pollinators by avoiding the use of neonicotinoids and other pesticides
We have set six principles to guide plant health practice across the Society.
We support the Government’s intentions to decrease plastic waste and are committed to helping the UK’s 27 million gardeners reduce their environmental impact
We have introduced numerous steps to make RHS shows more sustainable, working with our exhibitors, contractors and partners to take action now and by setting targets for the future.
RHS Qualifications students can follow this policy to appeal their examination grades
To prevent any potential bias RHS Qualifications ensures its staff and centres comply with this conflicts of interest policy
This policy only relates to specific issues with RHS qualifications – any other queries will not be responded to.
RHS Qualifications is committed to ensuring that there is no direct, combined or indirect discrimination in any of its activities.
RHS Qualifications is committed to a policy of equal opportunities ensuring the units and qualifications it makes available, are compliant with Equalities Law
RHS Qualifications takes all reasonable steps to prevent the occurrence of any malpractice or maladministration by candidates
RHS Qualifications constantly reviews the quality of its centers and will apply a range of sanctions to any centre falling short of its expectations
Within the decade we aim to become net positive for nature & for people
The Royal Horticultural Society is the UK’s leading gardening charity. We aim to enrich everyone’s life through plants, and make the UK a greener and more beautiful place.
