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Jupiter Growing Together project operates within Jupiter Urban Wildlife, providing a green sanctuary within the industrial setting of Grangemouth. Our project invites volunteers to participate in managing our TCV site, focusing on sustainable gardening practices, biodiversity enhancement, and the repurposing of items through our woodshed.
Our primary goal is to enhance the mental and physical well-being of individuals facing enduring health issues or socio-economic challenges. We seek a dedicated individual centred on people to assist the Senior Project Officer in planning, organising and overseeing sessions. This role aims to expand our capacity and activities while maintaining a secure, safe and encouraging environment for our groups.
Key Responsibilities:
• Coordinate and supervise volunteer engagement, ranging from nature-based activities to site maintenance tasks
• Support volunteer training and development
• Manage volunteer information and record activity tasks
• Ensure volunteer safety and well-being through effective risk assessing
• Assume the responsibility of being a key holder for the site.
As an environmental charity we aim to keep as much as we can out of landfill. One of our main areas is texttiles. As a Textile Assistant you will be involved in sorting out textiles then preparing them for resale which includes ironing and pricing. This role does not involve dealing with the public but you should have the ability to work well as part of a team.
Do you care about reducing food waste and have a couple of hours free a week? Why not help Greener Orkney in their Kirkwall and Stromness community fridges?
The community fridge aims to reduce the amount of food waste going into landfill and will be stocked with ‘use by’ and ‘best before’ food given by the supermarkets and local businesses. Donations from the public are also accepted under certain circumstances.
As a community fridge volunteer you will be:
- picking up the food from the supermarket (if you have transport)
- Weighing and sorting the food
- assisting members of the public coming to take food away
Full training will be given and there is flexibility on evenings and cover for holidays or sickness etc. If you are interested in helping in any way please contact greenerorkney@gmail.com or call Jane Nelson on 07739 144064.
**Volunteers are currently needed for a Thursday lunchtime in Kirkwall (12noon to 2pm), and mid-week evening volunteers in both Kirkwall and Stromness for approximately 1 hour**
Tayside Re-users generates income to operate by recycling items and selling them from its warehouse shop in South Dudhope Mill. As a volunteer Retail Assistant, your main duties would include making sure the shop is clean, tidy, stocked up, merchandised-well and customers are dealt with in a friendly manner. You would be responsible for the stock displays, pricing, serving customers or helping with telephone or online enquiries and making sure that there is sufficient stock on display. You will enjoy helping the public and wish to develop good customer service skills.
Greener Kirkcaldy are looking for Active Travel Assistants to be based in their Active Travel Hub at Lang Toun Cycles in Kirkcaldy High Street providing advice on active travel. Active travel includes walking, cycling and wheeling as well as modes of travel that are more energy efficient eg using public transport instead of the car. Active travel benefits the environment and the travellers’ physical and mental health. You would be providing information on how best to travel actively by helping to plan and offer safe routes to walk or cycle or Information on the cheapest public transport options i.e. advanced public transport tickets and travel cards. In the role you would enjoy the support of the Active Travel Hub staff and Greener Kirkcaldy’s volunteer coordinator. If you are interested in doing something for the environment, public wellbeing and meeting new people, go and volunteer with them.
Greener Kirkcaldy are looking for a bike refurbishment assistant to build and service bikes in their Lang Toun Cycles bike shop on Kirkcaldy High Street. The volunteer role offers support and training and if the volunteer is suitable, they will be offered the opportunity to train as a bike mechanic. The role requires and commitment of one ½ day per week. Volunteers would be offered full support from the bike shop staff.
This opportunity would be a great match for someone who is interested in bike maintenance and working in a bike shop.
We have many roles available depending upon your interests. Community engagement, monitoring and surveying, admin, social media, trapping, dispatching, fundraising, organising and attending events and more. We have many roles available depending on your preferences and skills.
Get involved with Garden Club
In 2021 Hospitalfield’s Walled Garden, designed by the horticulturalist Nigel Dunnett, opened to the public. The scheme was developed to reveal the unique horticultural history of the site at Hospitalfield, which has been tended as a garden for over 800 years.
The garden and grounds at Hospitalfield are maintained, made fruitful and more beautiful with the fantastic support of our volunteers who meet regularly at Garden Club. Garden Club support the development of the garden from helping weed the gardens, sowing seeds, potting up plants and assisting with seasonal projects. Our next garden project is the development of the medicinal garden.
The site at Hospitalfield has been populated since the 13th century when the monks who ran Arbroath Abbey established their hotel or hospital, here where we believe that they must have grown a medicinal garden and brewed potions as medicines to improve the health and wellbeing of those who they cared for.
From January 2023 we are inviting a medicinal plant specialist to design the garden with Garden Club volunteers, Hospitalfield’s grounds keeping team and soon to be appointed Community Gardener. The new medicinal garden will be planted in a large area within the walled garden at Hospitalfield. As part of our upcoming Garden Club sessions we’ll be planning, preparing, and planting this new medicinal garden.
Garden Club Volunteers meet regularly from 10am to 12pm on Fridays at Hospitalfield. We’re looking for volunteers to come along and get involved in the new medicinal garden at Hospitalfield.
For full information on how to get involved and accessibility notes please see our website https://hospitalfield.org.uk/support/volunteer/garden-club/ or contact us at volunteer@hospitalfield.org.uk
Minimum age: 18
Midlothian Wildflowers are seeking volunteers to help conserve and regenerate some of Midlothian’s neglected meadows. Our conservation volunteers do a range of activities, ranging including species monitoring, sowing and harvesting seed, and meadow raking to maintain balanced meadow soils. All abilities are welcome and no experience is necessary. You will be fully supported and working alongside nature-loving folk!
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Suitable for groups, One-off volunteering
Tarbolton Community Council is a voluntary organisation made up of local residents, each with a genuine interest in the community. Their main role is to be representative through consultation with the local community, and make it known to the local authority and other public bodies the views of local people on all matters affecting them.
If you're interested to help out our community in Tarbolton doing various tasks depending on what's happening in our village. Some tasks may include:
- Gardening
- Participating in events
- Maintaining public areas
- and any other tasks that might be needed by the TCC
We welcome all volunteers, even if it is just for a couple of hours a week or a month. We would also welcome any suggestions and ideas which could benefit our community.