Bring woodwork skills and support our work in local hospital community gardens. Your experience will be invaluable in constructing potting area, raised beds completing our outdoor kitchen and more! All around the garden there are woodwork and construction tasks to undertake. Opportunities involve: • Maintaining existing woodwork around the site • Helping to construct a potting area, helping to finish our outdoor kitchen, building new resources like planters and raised beds. • Source materials for these projects • Work with others to build these things

Midlothian Community Hospital Garden (MCHG) is an NHS Lothian initiative with a mission to make opportunities for good food and healthy lifestyles available to local communities. We do gardening using climate friendly techniques to grow local food and support wildlife while building community and developing skills. We run practical sessions, workshops, events and shared meals to build skills in gardening while encouraging healthy eating and promoting social inclusion. We provide advice and support for improving lifestyle through good food and good health. To achieve this aim, we seek volunteers to take part in activities under the direction of the Gardens Coordinator. There are tasks to suit all abilities from: Building and maintaining our infrastructure; Sowing, weeding and harvesting vegetables; Tree and bulb planting; Helping to manage areas for wildlife; Coordinating our garden sales and collaborating on art projects.