Gardening volunteer

As a Gardening Volunteer, you'll be helping to maintain some of our fantastic service green spaces! Whether it's a rooftop garden, a small vegetable patch or a patio area - we have areas across all of our services that need the support of your green fingers!

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

• Perform gardening duties including weeding, digging, pruning, planting, sweeping paths, poisoning weeds, cleaning, general repairs and ad hoc duties as assigned.
• Help maintain the gardens and grounds in a good condition together with various
• Displays of plants.
• Assist with planning and development of garden and grounds.

ESSENTIAL

• Enthusiasm and a passion for gardening

• Ability to communicate confidently and clearly with young people, other volunteers and staff

• Understanding of the importance of teamwork; commitment to being part of a team

• Experience working with young people or disadvantaged groups is preferable

• Able to work unsupervised

• Resilience, patience and an ability to motivate young people to participate in new activities

• Ability to remain calm when involved with challenging individuals and situations

• A commitment to demonstrating Centrepoint's values

• A commitment to complete the necessary volunteer training sessions

WHAT DO WE OFFER YOU?

• Structured induction and training
• Ongoing support and supervision from the Volunteering Team
• Ongoing support and supervision from supervisor
• Access to further training
• Travel and other reasonable expenses reimbursed