Worcester Community Garden Volunteer
Worcester Community Garden
Location
Time Commitment
Contact Details
Worcester
Short or Long Term, Part Time
Mandy Neill
07876050078
About the Role
The site is entirely run by volunteers – there is a job for everyone! There is always lighter or heavier gardening, construction and maintenance work to be done and skilled or unskilled jobs that can be suited to individuals experience. There is a regular jobs board that is kept up to date, examples include watering, weeding, digging, potting on, painting, sweeping, pruning or strimming. A site supervisor is always present to guide and introduce the work and the other volunteers who are present that day. All tools and equipment are provided, there is running water and a compost toilet on site.
Jobs include:
Weeding, pruning and strimming
Potting on and planting out
Tool cleaning and maintenance
Construction, carpentry, painting
Harvest and weigh produce from the garden
Help with sales at the kiosk
Repair main compost bins
Help collect and install donated greenhouse staging
Help plant out and maintain the new allotment and herb gardens
Clear weeds from pathways
Strim grass in rows between fruit trees in orchard
Tidy up water capture area on allotment garden
Complete repair of small greenhouse on allotment garden
Create new tap stand for handwash station to side of blue shed
Help to rebuild large donated greenhouse
Help build pontoon to float blue shed
Batten and fix cover to craft hall
Apply a coat of oil to small tabletops and boxes in the craft polytunnel to help preserve them
Wash down polytunnel covers and the glass of main greenhouse
Repair/refurbish folding wooden tables
Help prepare the area which will become our new wetland garden
Skills and Qualifications
None, we can help match jobs on site to individual skills and interests
About the Organisation
Worcester community garden is a registered charity running a half acre site on the edge of Pitchcroft, Worcester Racecourse. We are part of Transition Worcester, which is committed to developing resilitence and a more sustainable way of living within the community in the face of climate change and fossil fuel depletion. On the community garden site we follow organic and no dig principles to produce fruit, vegetables and flowers, meaning our beautiful produce is grown with zero chemicals and zero air miles. The garden includes a number of different small garden spaces designed to provide ideas and inspiration for volunteers and the many visitors who pop in to look around.