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The Hong Kong Flower Show 2024, organised by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department (“LCSD”), took place at Victoria Park between 15 and 24 March 2024. This year, the exhibition featured the colourful Angelonia as the theme flower, showcasing approximately 420,000 flowering plants. A rich diversity of educational and recreational fringe activities was held for visitors of all ages. As the major sponsor since 2014, the Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust has supported the Flower Show for the 12th consecutive year. Invited by the LCSD, over 110 CARE Volunteers attended and supported two programmes under the Flower Show, namely Jockey Club Community Green Playground (“Green Playground”) and the Green Recycling Day.

To raise the environmental awareness of younger generations, the Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust has sponsored the Green Playground for the 6th consecutive year. The Green Playground provided age-appropriate facilities and games with a nature and conservation theme for children and their families during the two weekends. On 16 and 23 March, some 80 trained CARE Volunteers joined the Green Playground on the Central Lawn of Victoria Park as Game Facilitators. They provided on-site support and disseminated green messages to the children while guiding them around different playground equipment that was partly made from recycled and reused materials.

The Green Recycling Day activities for the Flower Show took place on 25 March upon the conclusion of the main event to reinforce green measures and reduce waste. Some 40 trained CARE Volunteers supported the event as Green Ambassadors. Despite the record-breaking high temperatures for the month of March since 1884, the scorching weather failed to dampen the volunteers' enthusiasm. They assisted in separating and collecting reusable and recyclable materials at the showground for waste reduction. Flowers suitable for replanting and landscape displays suitable for reuse were relocated to the LCSD parks and amenity areas for public enjoyment, while pots of flowers suitable for replanting were distributed to the public. Collected wilted flowers were delivered to the Animal Waste Composting Plant in Ngau Tam Mei for recycling into organic compost.

In addition, the volunteers joined a workshop on organic planting. They experienced transplanting seedlings of Baby Bok Choy to pots and learnt tips for taking care of the seedlings that they brought home.