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Chelsea Flower Show should remind us that the outdoors is not a luxury – it belongs to everyone

The grey is lifting. And the Chelsea Flower Show is returning to London.

Chelsea is glamorous. It is beautiful. But beneath the spectacle, the champagne and the show gardens lies something much older, simpler and more universal: the human need to be outside.

Gardening, at its best, is primal and democratic. Hands in soil. Face in the air. A patch of green. A shared bench. A moment of peace.

This year, the Belonging Forum, in partnership with Sightsavers, has helped bring The Sightsavers Garden: We Start With Sight But We Don’t Stop There to RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2026. We’ve built a sensory garden designed not just to be looked at but to be entered, touched, heard, and experienced. It includes wheelchair access, level surfaces and audio description for visitors with visual impairments.

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