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Our events volunteers would commit a couple of hours every two weeks to help set up events, run events, facilitate events, and communicate with the team, speakers, and attendees.

Volunteer Trustee Treasurer to oversee financial record keeping and reporting at Kate’s Kitchen. Role is fully supported by professional Accountants, a bookkeeper and charities General Manager. Keep proper accounting records, prepare statement of accounts including activities, independently examined, audited. Copy of accounts and annual return to OSCR.

Sandside Community Garden Association is a constituted organisation which relies on the support of dedicated volunteers to manage and support with the day to day activities of running the organisation. The role of garden volunteer involves general maintenance and upkeep of the garden and allotment space which is based in North West Dumfries, to help to transform the space into a sanctuary for the local community. Duties may include planting and pruning plants and vegetables, maintaining the grass, sweeping, painting and any other relevant duties. Volunteers will work in a team with other garden volunteers to share the workload.

The Volunteering role will include gardening, garden/house clearances, litter picking, general maintenance and DIY.

By volunteering to assist in our trading spaces you will be helping with the smooth running of the trading department and generating much needed, important income for WWT. Our trading support volunteers help our team across the retail and catering operations at Caerlaverock Wetland Centre and ensure we deliver excellent customer service to our visitors. Volunteers will assist the catering team with clearing of tables and supporting behind-the-scenes with tasks such as washing up and loading the dishwasher as well as assisting with the preparation of hot and cold beverages. Volunteers also assist the retail team, visitor services team and catering team to provide a warm, friendly welcome to all visitors, giving information about our wetland centres and products. Volunteers also help keep the trading spaces fully stocked, clean and tidy, ensuring great presentation of products, monitoring numbers accessing indoor spaces, observing social distancing by our visitors, assisting with visual merchandising, pricing, checking off deliveries, and counts as required.

We are looking for volunteers to help maintain our day centres garden. The ARC day centre is open Monday to Friday between 9am and 4pm.

Windsor Park School for deaf students are looking for a Garden Buddy to help in the process of redesigning their garden and help teach their community tips for growing food sustainably.

Forth Valley Sensory Centre are looking for folk to help with both the maintenance of their kitchen and sensory gardens. This is a great opportunity to upskill your gardening knowledge, whilst being a member of a close knit community at the centre.

The Stornoway Trust is committed to the development and conservation of the Castle Grounds. The principle asset for achieving this is our tree and plant nursery located near Marybank within the Grounds. The work is rewarding but also labour intensive, we are looking for a committed volunteer to help us achieve our goals. The purpose of the role is to assist the Nursery Coordinator in a variety of tasks, working alongside other volunteers and the Garden Team. Tasks will involve potting up seedlings, propagation, organising plant stock, watering, weeding seedling beds, and seed collecting (to name just a few). Volunteer benefits - • Working with nature • Conserving the Castle Grounds • Learning lots of new skills • Working in the fresh air • Physical activity (get those steps up) • Friendly, knowledgeable team

Cultivate your Community! Cultivate Aberdeen has a clear vision to create kind, confident, and connected communities through the power of food growing and various gardening sessions/activities that people can assist with (sowing, weeding, diy). For more information and details of how you can get involved as a volunteer with Cultivate Aberdeen/help at our forthcoming gardening sessions please visit https://www.facebook.com/cultivateABDN and https://www.cultivateaberdeen.co.uk/get-involved/volunteer/ or email us at: info@cultivateaberdeen.co.uk All help makes a real difference and is greatly appreciated.