Speaker: Christopher Woodward

Director of the Garden Museum

Christopher Woodward has been director of the Garden Museum in London since 2007. He led a £7.5 million reconstruction and extension of the site and gardens, creating new galleries of garden history and spaces for learning, and setting up Britain’s first archive of garden design in 2017.

Christopher is an historian of architecture and gardens. He was previously director of the Holburne Museum of Art in Bath, England, and a curator at Sir John Soane’s Museum. He has also served as a board member of the Heritage Lottery Fund, the UK’s national body responsible for funding both built and natural heritage. His book In Ruins (2001) was short-listed for the national prize for young writers, and he has just completed a study of the history of nostalgia. Christopher’s personal obsession is swimming, and  to help raise funds for the Garden Museum, he has done swims of the Hellespont, Strait of Gibraltar, the 110 miles of the River Thames from Oxford to London, 30 km within the Arctic Circle, 63 miles in the Peloponnese, each swim inspired by botanist John Tradescant (1580-1638), whose life is the inspiration of the Garden Museum.

Exeter Artnership Fundraising Workshops

Free fundraising workshops for arts, culture and heritage organisations and practitioners through the Exeter Artnership.

This programme of FREE fundraising workshops is designed to support our creative community to develop skills, share knowledge and generate ideas to support the local cultural scene to thrive. We will learn together, bringing in fundraising experts and experience from across the country, so that we can all build resilience and sustainability, and nurture a culture of generosity, collaboration and trust within Exeter’s vibrant cultural scene.

These sessions are open to creatives and organisations of all sizes and across all disciplines.

These sessions have been facilitated by the Exeter Artnership – a group formed by Exeter’s five Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisations: Exeter Phoenix, Exeter UNESCO City of Literature, Exeter Northcott Theatre, Libraries Unlimited, and the Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Art Gallery.

This programme is delivered as a partnership project with Arts Fundraising & Philanthropy, supported by Arts Council England.

Venue: Studio 2, Exeter Phoenix

*Subject to a £1.50 ticketing system charge. We don’t charge this to make a profit. Find out more >>