Community Garden Volunteer

Community Garden Volunteers needed to help to develop a community garden into a functional and usable space for everyone in different ways and provide a visually stimulating and fragrant interest all year round.

One Manchester are looking for enthusiastic people to help expand the activities and diversity of the garden and to ensure its future sustainability, as a community run garden space.

Community garden volunteers will meet on the below specified time and dates and will be supported by an experienced horticulturalist.

• Mon 7^th, 14^th, 28^th  June
• Mon 5^th July

10am to 12pm

The events take place at Aquarius Community Centre in Hulme.

Whats in it for you?

• Learn how to grow well known and uncommon fruit, herbs and vegetables and flowering plants
• Help to maintain the garden
• Become part of a friendly and dedicated group of people
• Gain confidence!
• Learn new skills in organic gardening using low cost and free methods
• Get to know new people
• Stay active and reduce stress
• Getting a little bit muddy now and again
• Have fun digging, seed sowing, weeding, planting and harvesting
• Sharing and learning knowledge
• Use the skills you’ve learnt in your own garden, driveway or even window sill.
• Hopefully have fun!

Skills or Qualifications

• Ability to motivate yourself and others to get stuck in
• Reliable and punctual
• Ability to accept other people’s opinions without judgement
• Ability to work within a specified time frame and to complete tasks
• Are interested in developing skill and knowledge of gardening
• Are committed and reliable

Are flexible and able to take direction