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Community Gardening Volunteers

  • Burghead Amenities Association
  • VO84325

Description

Burghead Amenities Association has a wonderful community garden in Burghead which is enjoyed by people of all generations and abilities. They have various flower beds, a sensory garden, play area for toddlers, and hopefully soon they will have an outdoor gym for all ages and abilities.

There is ample scope for people to help with all aspects of the garden, from simple weeding, to assisting them on maintenance, designing and caring vegetables. No Skills are required as there will be people around to learn from, to do whatever is needed. The garden is run totally by volunteers, most of whom have no horticultural training, but they all learn from each other and help each other.

This is mostly physical work, so people that have difficulty or pain bending and kneeling may want to restrict their time allocation for helping. The local primary children come over with their teachers from the school. All ages are welcome, but children will need to be accompanied by an adult.

Volunteers help one hour on a Monday evening and two hours on Saturday mornings.

Get in touch if you would like to find out more! https://www.facebook.com/pg/burgheadstationyard/about

Organisation aims and objectives

To obtain improved community facilities for Burghead

Restrictions

Support

Expenses details: no
Taster available: Yes
Taster details: Come by to have a look at the Garden!
Support: Named Contact For Volunteer

Last updated a month ago

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