Supporting Volunteers
St Mary's Secret Garden
We are looking for volunteers to support gardeners with learning disabilities and support needs on our weekly therapeutic placements. These volunteers work alongside our horticultural therapists to support our clients to work in the garden, as well as carrying out gardening tasks.
St Mary’s Secret Garden is a beautiful and accessible community garden Hackney. For over 25 years St Mary’s has offered a safe space where people with support needs and the local community can get hands-on experience of gardening, gain a sense of inclusion and receive the benefits of horticulture and other ecotherapy activities. St Mary's provides a diversity of projects including accredited horticultural education, therapeutic sessions, corporate volunteering, community garden maintenance and school tours. We are looking for volunteers to support gardeners on our weekly therapeutic placements. Volunteers would ideally be able to commit to a regular half-day or whole day a week, currently on Wednesdays or Thursdays 10am - 1pm/3pm An ability to work with people with support needs and learning disabilities is an essential requirement for this role.
Advice, Information & Support,Art & Design,Befriending, Buddying & Mentoring,Community Work,Entertainment,Gardening,Practical Work & DIY,Building & Construction,Environmental,Music,Support Work
Art & Craft, Carpentry, Conservation, Creative & Design, Gardening, Organising & Planning, Photography, Reading & Writing
Essential: - ability to work with people with support needs and learning disabilities - experience of working in green spaces - ability to commit to attending once a week for a minimum of 3 months
- spending time in the garden, enjoying the space and the company of others Experience of - social and therapeutic horticulture, maintenance gardening, food growing - working with people with learning disabilities, long term health conditions and mental ill health - supporting facilitation of sessions or activities - contribute to
Wednesdays or Thursdays 10-1, or 10-3 weekly for minimum of 3 months
E2 8EL
St Mary's Secret Garden 50 Pearson Street E2 8EL
On a bus best to get off at the named bus stops: St Leonard's Hospital, Museum of the Home or Queensbridge Road 2-5 minute walk from Hackney Road, Kingsland Rd, Thurtle Road or Hoxton Overground Station Buses include: 55, 48, 26, 149, 243, 67, 394
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