Volunteers are an essential part of our Growing People team and without your help and skills, we couldn’t provide vital support needed for our horticultural therapy sessions.

As a Garden Volunteer you will be helping with the general maintenance of the site grounds.

The tasks for this can vary:

Potting herbs, digging, tackling the weeds/bramble, watering and many more general maintenance tasks.

Whatever your fitness level - there is a task for you!

Can you spare just 3 hours once week?

Sessions for Garden Volunteers takes place on:
Thursday mornings 9.30am - 12.30pm

• An interest in gardening - it's also helpful if you have some basic skills in this area, but if you are enthusiastic and willing to learn, then we are happy to teach you the skills you need.
  
  
• Reliability and punctuality.
  
  
• Committed to working as part of a team.
  
  
• Willing to help with general housekeeping duties e.g. making tea, tidying, cleaning.
  
  
• Ability to work safely with due consideration for yourself and others.

Equipment Required:

• Ideally you will have your own pair of gardening gloves that you are comfortable in, though we can provide these if you don’t.
  
  
• You'll also need sturdy footwear (ideally safety boots) and appropriate clothes for working in whatever the weather. We provide all other equipment and tools.

Our garden volunteers work as part of a friendly team with a shared passion for gardening, nature and the outdoors.

Garden volunteers acquire new skills and knowledge of horticulture and garden tasks, along with the joy of working in our beautiful orchard gardens and the satisfaction of knowing that their work is supporting people on the road to recovery.

How to Apply

If you would like more information or would like to join our Garden Volunteering session, please contact us:

By Phone: 07794 347283  or
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To arrange an informal meeting and have a taster session. You will also receive the volunteer's handbook, as well as guidance on site.

Our dedicated talented volunteers also help with various fundraising activities and you can get involved in the following ways:

How to get Involved?

Growing People Market Stall

Volunteers help with transport and staffing for one of the market stalls that we run at various points in the year, where we sell a variety of herbs and crafted items. 

Arts and Crafts

Volunteers can also join us in making the crafts that we sell, such as cards or willow items to raise funds for Growing People.

Christmas Wreaths

There's also a chance each year to get involved when we hand craft our ever-popular Christmas wreath, using plant materials gathered from the garden site. 

Why is fundraising important to us?

Fundraising is very important for us - we are a small operation, and anything that we can raise ourselves, goes directly into helping people recovering from mental ill health.

If you have experience in fundraising and would like to share your expertise with us, please don't hesitate to contact us:

By Phone: 07794 347283  or
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We appreciate everything our volunteers do – their skills and experience are invaluable to us and without them we couldn’t provide Social and Horticulture therapy to our gardeners.

No experience is required for these sessions, reliability and having a positive, problem-solving attitude are more important to us than gardening knowledge.

We provide therapy sessions all the year round, unless the weather is really bad.

If you feel you can spare some time helping another person or help maintain our site – then please contact us:

By Phone: 07794 347283  or
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