Volunteering

Could you offer at least a half a day a week? Could you offer a minimum commitment of 6 months?

Volunteers play a very important role in caring for the Gardens and we offer a very warm welcome. We currently have about 55 people coming in to different departments of the Gardens on a regular basis.

Volunteers are allocated to a Departmental Manager and are supervised at all times.

If you are interested in any of the volunteer vacancies listed below, please either:

• fill in one of our on-line application forms by clicking one of the following :
  
  Education Volunteer Application (for vacancies in the Education Department)
  General Volunteer Application (for all other Departments - except outdoor gardening).

(If you do this you will still have to post or e-mail  in any supporting evidence or CV)

or

• download and complete the Volunteer Application Form or the Education Volunteer Application Form or the Outdoor Gardening Application Form and return it to the Gardens marked for the attention of the relevant Departmental Manager.

Reception - The Reception at the Gardens is looking for volunteers . If you think this role might be for you please read the description and complete the General Volunteer Application above or if you would like an initial chat about the post please phone and speak to Lesley.

Work experience - We are really sorry but due to lack of sufficient staff resources for supervision, we are unable to offer any work experience for students or school students.

Corporate Volunteering

Are you part of a group or business? Would you like to spend a day with your colleagues out of the office, getting your hands dirty? Perhaps our corporate volunteering days could be for you?

We have a variety of manual tasks around the gardens that need to happen throughout the year to keep our visitors happy. These tasks provide a great opportunity for work colleagues to come together as a team and create a practical project in beautiful surroundings - very different to a normal day at the office! Recent groups include Npower, KPMG and Royal Bank of Scotland.

All workers on site are required to wear safety boots and as a charity the Botanical Gardens regrets that it does not have the resources to supply these, so all interested organisations would be required to provide these for each employee to wear on the day.

For further details contact our Outdoors Area Supervisor, Christine Morris, on:

0121 454 1860