• The AGT aims to promote the importance of parks and gardens, sharing information, training, resources and experience    

• The AGT organises seminars,  conferences, publications, garden visits and meetings with individual County Gardens Trusts to support local heritage or with other like-minded organisations  

• The AGT assists in the interpretation of old maps and surveys, documents and photographs, and promotes the collection of archive material related to historic parks and gardens

 

• The AGT aims to collate important research and historical data, including contributions to the online database Parks and Gardens UK

 

• The AGT identifies gardens at risk or worth restoring and promotes appropriate restoration and conservation
  
  
• The expertise of the AGT is recognised and sought in planning, development, management and conservation policies by local and national government    

• The AGT aims to involve schools and encourage young people both in horticulture, the improvement of school grounds and in the care and the enjoyment of designed landscapes. The AGT supports County Garden Trusts in their provision of information, design or professional expertise to children, teachers and parents  and in helping to raise funds   or co-ordinate practical work by organising and sponsoring competitions and exhibitions
  
  
• The AGT aims to encourage the creation of new gardens of merit

 

Above all, the AGT aims to promote the enjoyment of our heritage of both public parks and privately owned parks, gardens and designed landscapes open to the public and to encourage their conservation, recording, restoration, appropriate development and management.