Volunteering
Why volunteer with us?
Volunteering at the gardens offers you the chance to make a difference in your local community. It will enable you to help improve our local environment while meeting new people, learning new skills and giving back. People who volunteer regularly find they experience improvements to health and wellbeing as a result of working outside with nature and undertaking physical activity.
Who can volunteer?
New volunteers don’t have to have experience of gardening and are supported by staff and other volunteers.
Many of our volunteers are referred to us by other agencies in the borough and have some support needs. We ask people making referrals on behalf of clients to first attend one of our monthly Professional Tours so that they can get an understanding of the capacity of HCGA and our different programmes. Find out more about our Professional Tours here.
We welcome enquiries from students looking for work experience placements or working towards their Duke of Edinburgh’s Award (DofE). Find out more about work experience and placements here.
We are happy to hear from local companies and organisations who wish to invest in their community and spend a day with HCGA – find out about corporate team days here.
What do HCGA volunteers do?
Take a look at this video made by a volunteer:
How do I become a volunteer?
Please fill out our expression of interest form or or email volunteering@hcga.org.uk for more information about any of the programmes listed below.
Volunteer Expression of Interest
