Gardening Volunteer
Choice in Hackney
A Volunteer Gardener will be visiting the gardens of disabled people in Hackney to perform basic gardening tasks including mowing a lawn, weeding, pruning, bagging up garden waste, or tidying the garden to improve accessibility. Time commitment is flexible around the volunteer's availability but preferably at least once a fortnight.
A Volunteer Gardener will be visiting the gardens of disabled people in Hackney to perform basic gardening tasks including mowing a lawn, weeding, pruning, bagging up garden waste, or tidying the garden to improve accessibility. We will ensure that the gardener will be able to enter and exit the garden safely (e.g. through a side entrance) and without directly contacting the service user. We match volunteers with service users according to mutual preferences and availability. We will always look to pair Volunteer Gardeners with a person within a reasonable and safe distance of their current location.
Gardening
Gardening
· Ability to carry out tasks alone and without close supervision. · Good communication skills: listening, talking, etc. · Available to commit to completing 1 garden, usually at the same home as agreed. · Reliability: able to keep commitments and appointments and where necessary, to communicate changes to plans with as much notice as possible. · Empathy and an interest in understanding the barriers with which disabled people are faced. · Ability to recognise own limitations and ask for help when needed. · Ability to understand and follow relevant policies and procedures e.g. confidentiality, health and safety, boundaries.
· Satisfaction from providing practical help to someone who needs it. · Gaining awareness and better understanding of disability issues. · Improving skills, including gardening, transferable to the workplace. · Flexible time commitment: we will work around your daytime availability. · Support from the Volunteer Coordinator (by phone, in person, by email). · References where appropriate. · Out-of-pocket expenses (including safety equipment) reimbursed.
Flexible around the volunteers availability but preferably at least once a fortnight.
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Various in Hackney
Hackney is served mainly by the overground and buses.
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