Volunteering as a garden buddy within the Ninewells Community Garden can involve a number of activities. In general the role will involve: • Assisting with the regular (weekly) volunteer sessions, by providing support to the sessional facilitator. • Supporting and encouraging other volunteers who require extra assistance by working alongside them. This may mean assisting with practical tasks, and/or creating a friendly environment through listening and conversing. • Assisting in the practical aspects of garden maintenance and development by working independently as required. For example outside of regular facilitated sessions. • Being a friendly face and welcoming people coming to participate in or visit the garden. • Working cooperatively with other volunteers, visitors and residents from the neighbouring communities. • Communicating with the facilitator and/or board of trustees about needs or concerns to ensure a safe, accessible and enjoyable environment. • Being familiar with and following defined health and safety protocols to enable safe working with tools and equipment to allow for safe gardening practice. • Assisting with household duties (washing, cleaning etc.) in the Leaf Room to ensure a healthy and safe indoor environment. • Attending regular garden planning meetings. • Supporting the greater objectives of the community garden and be an ambassador of the garden. We offer additional opportunities to share your skills, interests and ideas such as landscaping, planning and design; specific horticultural expertise; wildlife and nature surveys; other supporting skills such as administration, marketing, art & design, events, education etc. Please speak to the garden facilitators about these opportunities.

Volunteering as a garden grower within the Ninewells Community Garden can involve a number of activities. In general the role will involve: • Working as part of the gardening team. • Assisting in practical aspects of developing and maintaining the garden. • General gardening maintenance tasks such as weeding, deadheading, tidying the wider surroundings of the garden, watering, pruning etc. • Working cooperatively with other volunteers, visitors and residents from the neighbouring communities. • Communicating with the facilitator and/or board of trustees about needs or concerns to ensure a safe, accessible and enjoyable environment. • Assisting with household duties (washing, cleaning etc.) in our Leaf Room to ensure a healthy and safe indoor environment. • Supporting the greater objectives of the community garden and be an ambassador of the garden. We offer additional opportunities to share your skills, interests and ideas such as landscaping, planning and design; specific horticultural expertise; wildlife and nature surveys; other supporting skills such as administration, marketing, art & design, events, education etc. Please speak to us about these opportunities.

Clean Up Aberdeen is part of Keep Scotland Beautiful's national mass-engagement campaign Clean Up Scotland. Litter picking clean ups are a great way of bringing people together. Young and old alike can roll up their sleeves together to show that they care about their neighbourhood. Everyone can take part from individuals to schools, community groups and businesses. Clean Ups are great fun and make a noticeable difference to areas. Environmental Services can lend you litter picking tongs, high viz vests, gloves and black bags and will uplift the collected rubbish. All you have to do is pick and bag the litter. For more details, or to get help organising an event call 03000 200 292 or e-mail cleanaberdeen@aberdeencity.gov.uk You can also register a Clean Up of your local community with friends and family, work colleagues or your community group at: https://www.aberdeencity.gov.uk/services/environment/clean-aberdeen

Eadha is one of Scotland's leading Aspen conservation charities. Aspen is a rare native tree but one which is potentially very useful and productive. Aspen rarely sets seed so propagating it is challenging. We survey the remote areas of the country to find surviving trees from which we then extract root cuttings for propagation. We then use a specialised lab to generate planting stock using tissue culture methods. They supply us with small plants which we pot up and grow on in our nursery. Aspen supports a more wildlife than any other tree and we develop woodland projects into which it can be planted. We are also growing other native trees and wildflowers. We are looking for volunteers to help us in our nursery at Bishopton to help with propagation. pot on the aspen trees. It is a beautiful and peaceful place to work, to learn new skills and help to conserve native species.