Community Gardening Volunteer Days

Woodford Greeners are looking for volunteers to help create our new Community Garden in Walled Garden at Ray Park. We are looking for people who enjoy being outdoors and have enthusiasm to get stuck in and learn new skills. 

We hold regular volunteer weekends at the garden, usually once a month. The dates change each month but all sessions are always 10am-3pm. Forthcoming dates are Sunday 21st May and Sunday 4th June. 

Main tasks and responsibilities 

• Transforming an overgrown area of weeds into a beautiful garden of flowers, fruit trees, medicinal herbs and a vegetable growing patch. 
• Creating most of the infrastructure from upcycled materials that have been discarded in the local area. 
• Building raised plant beds from old timber. 
• Building a rain garden. 
• Creating habitats for local wildlife such as hedgehogs and stag beetles. 
• We plan to be as eco-friendly as possible, committed to being pesticide-free, growing plants from seed or seedling in peat-free and minimising our use of plastic where possible. 

Benefits to the volunteer 

• Learn and improve new or existing skills in gardening and wildlife. 
• Spend time outdoors and in nature. 
• A sense of fulfilment carrying out activities that will benefit the community as well as the environment. 
• An opportunity to meet new people who share an interest in gardening and nature. 
• Great for those interested in helping towards local wildlife, sustainability and the environment. 

What skills do I need?

Skills, attributes, experience and qualifications

• Have an interest and enthusiasm for the natural world. 
• You should feel comfortable and happy working outdoors in different weather conditions. 
• Be comfortable and happy working outdoors in different weather conditions. 
• Be prepared to roll your sleeves up and get stuck in, in the fresh open air. 
• An interest in gardening is welcome but you can be a complete beginner. 
• If you have any physical access needs, we can tailor activities to suit your requirements and volunteers can help out for as long or as short a time as they feel comfortable with. 
• Unfortunately the garden is not currently suitable for wheelchairs as the ground is still uneven, but we hope to make it wheelchair friendly in the future when we've constructed the pathways. 

When do I need to be available?

	Morning	Afternoon	Evening
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday

Details

We hold regular volunteer weekends at the garden, usually once a month. The dates change each month but all sessions are always 10am-3pm, so we will keep this listing updated with the latest weekend available. Forthcoming dates include: Sunday 21 May and Sunday 4 June 2023.

Where does this role take place?