Description

Horatio’s Garden is an award-winning, national charity creating and caring for beautiful gardens in NHS spinal injury centres. Leading garden designers, who collaborate with all the spinal injury centre stakeholders, design the gardens. The charity maintains the gardens with a Head Gardener and a team of volunteers who work under their leadership. The charity’s team organises music, arts activities and garden therapy to offer the gentle side of rehabilitation to patients who spend so long in hospital following life-changing injuries.

As a self-funded charity, our fundraising is integral to what we do, from Garden and Christmas Fairs to Tours and stocking the craft sales. This is a fun and creative way to help the charity thrive!

Ways to get involved:
Baking, crafting and creating items for fundraising events
Organizing & assisting at fundraising events such as fairs and markets
Organising social events in support of the charity such as quiz nights, concerts, garden gatherings, auctions, dinner parties, workshops...
Applying to local businesses for donations
Sporting challenges
Giving talks to the public about Horatio's Garden

Our Expectations of Volunteers:
Visits must be coordinated to a planned schedule
To be able to commit consistently for a minimum of one year
Willingness to learn and take initiative
Friendly and positive attitude
Be consistent and dependable, with a friendly positive demeanour
Flexible and helpful as other jobs may be required

We offer full training and support. From giving just one hour per week, you can join one of our groups and help us transform the lives of people affected by spinal injury.

We ensure Volunteers can:
Be heard and have a voice
Have tasks that are scaled for ability and weather
Kept informed about the charity

If you are interested please click the ‘apply’ button below (available when logged in and registered). You will then be contacted by the coordinator by email or phone call. If you have not heard back after 5 working days, the first step is to contact the organisation with the contact details provided. You could also check your junk/spam folder on your emails just in case the response is there. If that doesn’t work out then please feel free to contact Volunteer Glasgow on 0141 226 3431.
Supported in their role in a safe and welcoming environment

Availability

Restrictions

Experience required: The most important thing we require is for you to be a supportive team member with a high attention to detail.
Travel details: For public transport you can use First Bus: 8,16,77 | Stagecoach: X19 | McGills: 17,21,23/23A/23B.
Minimum age: 14

Support

Support: Wheelchair Access/Disabled Access Toilet