Middleton Secure for Now

The financially troubled Botanic Garden of Wales has been granted approximately $7 million CDN to continue operations. Created in 2000 as one of the United Kingdom's millennium projects, it has been troubled by financial shortfalls since shortly after its opening.

Volunteers have stepped in to help with the maintenance of the garden after 75 staff were laid off. Remaining employees of the garden cling to a vision of the garden as a national symbol for Wales and an innovative research centre for the world.

Link: Welsh garden shakes off financial frost from The Guardian

Posted by Eric La Fountaine at 10:20 AM on April 13, 2004

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