Community Garden Support Volunteer

What the role involves:

- Supporting fun and creative activities in the garden with various groups and visitors.
- Help with the upkeep, development and protection of the garden and its equipment so that it can be enjoyed by everyone.
- Assisting with the set-up of sessions.
- Supporting registration & check-in of school and community groups.
- Setting up refreshments.
- Ensuring the safety and wellbeing of visitors to the garden.
- Support promoting the activities and events in the garden.
- Recording data for evaluation purposes.


What we’re looking for in you:

- Enthusiasm for gardening and working outside, with some experience and skills desirable.
- Enjoy working as part of a team.
- Strong communication skills
- Enthusiastic about supporting schools groups and community groups.


Benefits of volunteering and what you can expect from us:

- Excellent archival and museum research experience.
- Access to museum staff and expertise, and gaining knowledge and skills in a national museum.
- Being part of a friendly, diverse team of staff and volunteers.
- The opportunity to make a valuable contribution to the work of a national museum.
- Develop your research skills.
- Training and induction provided.
- Complimentary tickets and free entry to all of our sites access to discounts in our shops and restaurants.
- Travel can be reimbursed up to a limit of £12 per return journey (conditions apply). Please note we are unable to provide parking facilities.


Time Commitment:

- Thursdays (9am-12pm) gardening with 8 children from a local primary school
- Fridays (12.30pm-2.30pm) gardening with 4-6 adults with special educational needs
- Community Garden Day (all day) twice a year

To ensure the garden can reach its fullest potential we recommend a commitment of minimum 3 months.


How to apply:

We want to know about you! Be creative and tell us why you want to volunteer in our collection-inspired community garden. You could write us a poem, send a CV or send us some photos of your favourite garden. We want to see your enthusiasm, passion and communication skills.

Short listed candidates will be invited to an induction day where you will get a chance to see how the sessions are run and an opportunity for you to introduce yourself to us.

Please note, we can only take on volunteers who are 18+.

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