Tulips will bloom brightly in Worcester this summer for the 2025 Celebration Garden.
You can celebrate and remember the life of a loved one or mark a special occasion in this uplifting display and then take the sculpture home as a keepsake or a gift. Each metal tulip is kindly made at cost price to us so we can maximise funds raised for our care.
Thank you for helping us be there for patients and their loved ones when they need us most.
Visiting the Celebration Garden
You can visit the tulips in the gardens of St Andrew’s Spire in Worcester from midday on Friday, 8 August until 10am on Monday, 25 August.
You can pick your tulip from St Andrew’s Spire on Monday, 25 August between 10am and 2pm or from St Richard’s Hospice on either Monday, 1 September between 5pm and 7pm or Saturday, 6 September between 10am and 12pm. If you are unable to collect your tulip, we can post it to you for an additional £10.25.
The tulips are made in a variety of colours. If you choose to collect your tulip from St Andrew’s Spire on 25 August, you will be able to pick your own colour from any on display (subject to availability). If you collect from the hospice or have your sculpture posted, you will not be able to choose your colour.
Order your tulip sculpture below:
Tulips and St Richard’s
“As a carer there are things you don’t tell your friends and family because you don’t want to upset them. St Richard’s tulip group lightened that load; you can share everything from your darkest thoughts to a cheeky laugh – it’s a safe haven.“
These are the words of Sue Burge who joined our Tulip Carers Cafe to support her in caring for husband Steve who lives with Parkinson’s Disease.
“St Richard’s is such a special place; you feel the love as soon as you walk through the doors. The hospice has transformed our lives; it’s just joyful.”
With your support we can keep running groups like our Tulips Carers’ Cafe which meets once a month to help those caring for people with an incurable illness. Together we can lighten the load for loved ones in challenging times.
The artist
Craftsman Ed Alvis is supporting the St Richard’s Celebration Garden for a fifth year, having previously created bees, butterflies, sunflowers and snowdrops for the hospice’s care.
Each tulip is uniquely commissioned by Ed at his workshop near Evesham. Having seen St Richard’s care first hand when the hospice team gave home care to his father, Ed kindly provides the hospice with his sculptures at cost price. This enables us to maximise funds raised.
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Celebration Garden 2025 Terms and Conditions
- St Richard’s Hospice has the right to decline any donation
- Only new personal and company donations outside of events and collections are permissible. We cannot back date donations
- Individual donations must be made per sculpture, if you wish to receive more than one sculpture, additional donations must be made per sculpture
- St Richard’s has the right to alter the installation or removal date in line with operational hospice needs
- Supporters indicate how they wish to receive their sculpture at the time of donation, to change this please contact
- In exceptional circumstances, St Richard’s Hospice has the right to relocate the installation to another appropriate site
- If you request the sculpture to be sent by post, this will be via a courier arranged by the hospice. The postage will be standard 2nd class, pre-paid by the receiver
- If you fail to collect your sculpture on one of our dedicated collection dates we will contact you to take payment of £10.25 to cover postage, packaging and admin costs, as we are unable to store the sculptures at the hospice
- Any sculpture that has not been collected by 1 November will be made available for another donor to purchase. No refunds of donations will be issued.
Donors will be invited to collect their sculpture on 3 dates:
- From St Andrew’s Spire, Worcester on Monday, 25 August 2025 between 10am and 2pm
- From St Richard’s Hospice, Wildwood Drive, Worcester on Monday, 1 September 2025 between 5pm and 7pm
- From St Richard’s Hospice, Wildwood Drive, Worcester on Saturday, 6 September 2025 between 10am and 12pm
Alternatively, we can send your sculpture via post (£10.25 postage) after the collection dates have been fulfilled.