General meeting

Discover Fulham Palace Trust!

All are welcome to join the annual Fulham Palace Trust general meeting. Discover the highlights of the past year as we share our latest achievements, unveil our annual report and give an update on the Trust’s finances.

The meeting is also your chance to ask questions and share ideas about the future of Fulham Palace. Enjoy drinks and light refreshments to start the evening, followed by an inspiring talk titled from Dr Sheila Das.

In the talk ‘Soil & conversation: engaging the sixth sense in our gardens’, Dr Sheila Das will speak about her journey with soil and how it has led her to a different way of interacting with gardens and gardeners.

About the speaker

Having changed career in the early 2000’s, Sheila studied at Kew, worked for English Heritage and was a garden manager at RHS Garden Wisley with responsibility for Education, Edibles, Seed and Wellbeing from 2015 to 2024. This time included the development of the hilltop gardens at Wisley which feature gardens for Wildlife, Wellbeing and Food. Sheila is passionate about growing food in sustainable ways to support planetary and human health and was instrumental in developing Wisley’s planet friendly gardening initiative to develop actions towards increasing biodiversity and sharing knowledge around sustainability and resilience in horticulture. Sheila is now Head of Gardens and Parks at the National Trust and carries out a lead role for horticulture across all the National Trust gardens.

Event details:

• Drinks & light refreshments will be served at the beginning of the event.
• The talk will be approximately 40 – 45 minutes.
• For additional information or questions about this event, please contact Amy Barker by emailing development@fulhampalace.org.