Club supports Hong Kong Flower Show for fifth year to keep city blossoming with love

03/10/2017

For the fifth consecutive year, The Hong Kong Jockey Club is supporting the Hong Kong Flower Show being staged by Leisure and Cultural Services Department in Victoria Park. Today (10 March), the Club's Executive Director, Charities and Community, Leong Cheung joined the Hong Kong SAR Chief Executive's wife Regina Leung, Secretary for Home Affairs Lau Kong-wah and Director of Leisure and Cultural Services Michelle Li as officiating guests at the opening ceremony.

As the Major Sponsor of the Flower Show, The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust has donated HK$5.3 million to support six related educational initiatives, namely a Mosaiculture Display by Students, a Student Drawing Competition, a Transport Subsidy Scheme and Guided Tours, a Flower Replanting Scheme, a ‘One Person One Flower' scheme and a Community Green Playground. In total, these initiatives will reach more than 300,000 schoolchildren and parents, while the transport subsidy scheme and guided tours will benefit some 31,000 elderly people, students and underprivileged families.

Open to the public for 10 days until 19 March, this year's Flower Show carries the theme ''Blossoms of Love'', with the rose - famous for its vibrant colours, exquisite fragrance and charming flowers - as the theme flower. Visitors can appreciate a wide variety of exquisite potted plants, beautiful floral arrangements and gorgeous landscape displays from local, Mainland and overseas producers. They can also visit the Jockey Club Community Green Playground to enjoy family activities on the theme of nature and conservation during the weekend. To foster awareness of the importance of environmental protection and greening, an initiative called ''Give the Flowers a New Home!'' Jockey Club Flower Replanting Scheme will ensure that the potted flowers remaining at the end of the show are sent to non-governmental organisations and schools for replanting.

The Hong Kong Jockey Club

The Hong Kong Jockey Club is a not-for-profit enterprise dedicated to community betterment. Through its integrated business model of world-class racing, responsible sports wagering and lottery, and charity and community contribution, the Club generates substantial economic and social value and assists the Government in combatting illegal gambling. In 2015/16 the Club donated a record HK$3.9 billion to charity and paid a record HK$20.9 billion in tax. It is Hong Kong's largest single tax payer and one of the world's largest charity donors. Committed to global excellence and giving back to society, the Club is always ''riding high together for a better future'' with the people of Hong Kong.