Royal Botanic Garden - Celebrate Life
What we did
The Royal Botanic Gardens asked us to design and develop a site for their new commemorative donations activities. The site was to act as a showcase for five new ways for people to make a recognised contribution towards the activities of the RBGE. They include: an online Commemorative Book, buying a leaf on the Hope Tree, Commissioning a Botanical Painting, Adopting a Tree and Leaving a Legacy.
The site design needed to reflect both the commemorative and celebratory aspects of the donations, with some donations focused on remembering a loved one or a special event, and others engaged with supporting the living heritage of the Gardens.
The front-end of the site is built within a CMS framework and the back-end has an online payment system which is integrated with the RBGE's Raiser's Edge database to facilitate donations made by Members and Sponsors.
For the online Commemorative Book entries, multiple contributions are encouraged: donors can create a page, adding text and images, and then invite others to add their own memories of the person or event as well as making a additonal contribution to the RBGE.
The first phases of the commemorative donations programme are now in place with the Commemorative Book filling up with pages celebrating lives and events in the Gardens.
The Leave a Legacy section is also active and allows people to make anonymous donations to support the work and activities of the RBGE.
The Hope Tree, a wall plaque of gold, bronze and silver leaves is now up in the John Hope Discovery Centre and members and sponsors can buy leaves online or in person.
Leaves can celebrate a person's life and love of the gardens or act as a special memory of an event held there.
In Fall of 2010 the next sections, Adopt a Tree and Commission a Botanical Painting, will be made available online.
These will be tied to on-going work within the RBGE from sponsoring a tree within the Edinburgh gardens to supporting the work of artists to capturing and painting new species of plants discovered in the course of RBGE scientists work across the globe.
Our clients
- Guildtown & Wolfhill Community Website
- BioBest Laboratories
- Data Discoveries
- Paragon Inks
- ImmunoSolv
- Clinks Website
- The Botanics - New Home Page
- Royal Botanic Garden - Celebrate Life
- UK Electronic Skills Foundation
- Murray Stable Redesign
- Compugraphics International Ltd
- Find My Past
- Scottish Tartans Authority
- Get Online and Learn
- Scotland for Golf
- Community Care Providers Scotland
- Glorious Gardens of Argyll & Bute
- Interconnect
- National Microelectronics Institute
- ProMetic BioSciences Ltd
- Encap Drug Delivery
- Ballintrae
- Conversion Metrixs
- ScotlandIS
- In Equilibrium
- Scottish Optoelectronics Association
- David Purdie
- Carnegie Club
- Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
- Scottish Council of Independent Schools
- School of Mathematics
- The Basil Spence Archive Project
- Aircraft Medical
- Premier Commercial
- Edinburgh Community Technology Academy
- Faculty of Advocates
- Stewart Asset Management Group
- Murray Stable
- MYOmove
- Harburn House