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garden volunteer leader to assist our new outdoor team. No prior gardening experience is required, but it would be helpful if you can distinguish between a daisy and a daffodil. Your responsibilities will include working with our volunteers, organizing outdoor events, and overseeing the maintenance of our community gardens and town centre planters. Bi-weekly meetings will be held in our community cafe, with complimentary hot drinks and snacks provided.
Volunteers are needed for a new gardening team in Stenhousemuir. If you enjoy working independently or as part of a team, we want to hear from you. As part of KLSB (Keeping Larbert & Stenhousemuir Beautiful), you will be asked to help maintain our community gardens and town centre planters. We hold fortnightly meetings at our community café, where you can make new friends, exchange seeds, share tips, and enjoy a warm drink and a snack. No experience is necessary, but a passion for working outdoors and an outgoing personality is preferred. This is an ideal opportunity to learn new skills and help support your community. Tools and hi-viz provided. Everyone is welcome.
The Allotment Market Stall provides good quality, well priced, locally grown fruit and vegetables and reduces waste. We have great opportunities this season for volunteers to be part of helping at our market stalls at the wonderful Seaton Park or Victoria Park, Aberdeen on a Friday.
Main tasks include:
• Help set up our market stall and sell fruit and vegetables in the park.
• Our produce is grown on allotments in Aberdeen so you will help us to reduce food miles and food waste, to support the allotment sites and to provide fresh, local produce.
• It's also a great way to meet people and spend time outdoors in the park.
Volunteers will be fully trained and supported in our procedures and equipment. Volunteers will also have the support of the Stall Coordinator at all times.
A fantastic opportunity to help make a real difference. All volunteers are greatly appreciated.
To get involved/for more information please email Jackie Welsh, TAMS Volunteer Coordinator at: Theallotmentmarketstall@gmail.com
Aberdeen Civic Society have great opportunities for people to help volunteering as Executive Committee Members.
The Executive Committee work to advance the objectives of the Society which are:
• To stimulate public interest in and care for the beauty, history and character of the city of Aberdeen and its surroundings.
• To encourage the preservation, development and improvement of features of general amenity and historic interest.
• To encourage high standards of architectural planning.
• The Society pursues these aims by means of illustrated lectures, discussions, visits and walkabouts.
An important feature of the Society's work is its Awards and Commendations Scheme. Through this, encouragement and recognition are given to those who have contributed to the amenity of the city by means of new buildings or the restoration and preservation of old buildings.
The Society keeps itself informed on planning applications made to the City Council. It submits comments and suggestions, and lodges objections when proposals are considered detrimental to the city.
Committee members are sought to help with the following activities:
• to arrange the annual programme of talks
• to organise the Society's social events- the annual Supper and Summer Outing
• to research, discuss and respond to current Aberdeen City planning applications and to participate in public consultations on urban planning
• to improve the Society's communication with the public through social and other media
A fantastic opportunity to help with the preservation, development and improvement of features of general amenity and historic interest in Aberdeen.
For further information please contact Julia Strickland, Honorary Secretary at email info@aberdeencivicsociety.org.uk or telephone 07434540344.
More information about Aberdeen Civic Society is also available at https://www.aberdeencivicsociety.org.uk/ and https://www.facebook.com/AberdeenCivicSociety
An exciting opportunity to join the Under the Trees team, working in the great and beautiful outdoors whilst gaining valuable experience working with young children and young adults. You will potentially be working in all weathers and in all seasons - we can provide waterproofs! Under the Trees runs fun and educational sessions for school children in the Falkirk and Stirling areas, as well as a programme of public events for all ages, backgrounds and abilities. Events run all year round.
As a Volunteer Education Assistant, there will be opportunities for you to do a range of the following:
- Assist with Educational Sessions for school groups, including term-time forest schools.
- Assist with sessions for the general public, including a monthly nature club for ages 0-13.
- Assist with holiday play sessions and family events.
- Plan and lead in activities.
- Maintain resources effectively.
- Keep session areas safe and tidy.
- Desk-based activities in planning, creating materials and administration.
We’re the Community Growing team at CFINE! We work together with existing community gardens across Aberdeen to help them do more, and we work with volunteers and others to provide opportunities for training, personal development, and improvement of wellbeing. Our work consists of creating and supporting city-wide community growing activities, including amongst other things: seminars and networking opportunities; running workshops and activities programmes with people of all abilities and ages; bringing gardening together with the arts through community-based creative projects; and...
Running our gardening skills courses!
At this point in time, our team works to run three different kinds of gardening courses: the CFINE “Growing Employability Skills” course; the “Growing For Wellbeing” course, in collaboration with MindStore; and the “Grow Food Indoors” course, in collaboration with One Seed Forward.
Of these, we will be having further runs of Growing Employability Skills and Growing For Wellbeing courses throughout the rest of 2024. Both are based on a similar programme, covering four main learning areas: promoting biodiversity; composting and soil health; plant care, and; propagation. And – while wellbeing is always a priority on all of our courses – special attention is paid to this in our Growing For Wellbeing courses, which also include additional activities for developing and practising mindfulness within the sessions.
This year will be the third consecutive year that we’ve been running our gardening courses, and our programme is diversifying and expanding all the time. So far, we’ve helped a total of 65 participants to complete our courses across 8 cohorts. Our hope is that by running these courses, we’ll reach out to new people, help them to develop their skills, and support them to improve their wellbeing, while at the same time also working to build up a bigger and bigger volunteer base for Aberdeen’s community growing projects.
Our Support For Learning volunteers work together with course tutors during the sessions to: prep and for the sessions and pack down afterwards; supporting course participants to carry out activities; supporting course participants with paperwork and writing where appropriate, and; sometimes some additional tasks (e.g. collecting refreshments for the sessions) are helpful as well.
Volunteers are also able to fully participate in the courses alongside other attendees, and so gain all the benefits of our courses -- getting outside and meeting new people, visiting and learning more about Aberdeen's community garden spaces, and getting to practice gardening skills together with the rest of the group.
No prior training required for the position. Volunteers will receive training in gardening skills alongside fulfilling their learning support role. The volunteer will be working together with a course tutor at all times, and the community growing team will be available for additional support where required.
A fantastic opportunity to help at wonderful community gardens in Aberdeen. All help makes a real difference and is greatly appreciated.
For further details please contact Lucy Edwards, Community Growing Assistant at email: ledwards@cfine.org or telephone: 01224 596156.
Costal Ambassadors have a presence at community events, help organise beach cleans, deliver talks and presentations to the general public and specific audiences in a variety of settings. They keep records of numbers engaged talks delivered and give events debrief to see CCOH.
CFINE and Earth & Worms Community Garden (E&W) are working together to expand community composting in Aberdeen. We’d like to continue building our lovely volunteer bases, and install some new features in the E&W garden that will enable us to branch out into new activities.
Compost matters! By composting, waste can be reinvented as a valuable resource for increasing the fertility and biodiversity of our soil. Even as things are now we produce sufficient compost at E&W for all of our existing vegetable beds, fruiting trees and bushes, etc. But there are times when we run a little short, and in the future it would be great to be able to increase production of both our compost, and our fruit and veg. And in time, who's to say that other gardens couldn't reap the benefits of this work by being supported to produce compost of their own!
But for more compost, we need to collect more waste, and to collect more waste, we’ll need to expand our systems…
Enter the Cargobike Compost Courier scheme! We have a number of individuals who are already on the team, helping us to shift compostable waste from locations throughout Aberdeen back to the E&W HQ in Tillydrone, but we could do with a few new people onside so we can keep pace with the supply of materials.
Excellent support and relevant guidance is provided to all volunteers. First, volunteers will be introduced to the bikes and will go for a trial-run together with an existing CFINE staff member or volunteer. Depending on the situation, and the new volunteer's level of confidence with cycling in Aberdeen, we can also provide access to cargobike training days together with staff at SusTrans.
At CFINE, we run additional training routinely as a part of our Community Growing remit, which may be of interest to volunteers. Our gardening courses provide an introduction to many of the basics of gardening, including composting.
A fantastic opportunity to help with wonderful community composting in Aberdeen. All help makes a real difference and is greatly appreciated.
For further details please contact Lucy Edwards, Community Growing Assistant at email: ledwards@cfine.org or telephone: 01224 596156.
Make it happen!
The Allotment Market Stall provides good quality, well priced, locally grown fruit and vegetables and reduces waste. We have great opportunities this season for people to volunteer and help make it happen.
Can you volunteer to help with Thursday Collections and Weigh In or volunteer to help set up and run our veg stalls on Fridays? Please contact us at email: theallotmentmarketstall@gmail.com for more details.
Join the multi-media team!
We are starting a new group that will report on local news and events. You will learn how to use skills from many of shmu's media stands, focusing on video, audio, print and photography to tell our communities stories.
The course will run every Thursday and is open to participants from Cummings Park, Northfield, Middlefield, Tillydrone, Mastrick, Torry, Seaton and Woodside. No experience required!
After completion of the course, you will have the opportunity to continue with our multi-media team covering stories of local interest.
For further information please contact Sarah Igesund, Adult Wellbeing Development Worker at email volunteer@shmu.org.uk or telephone 07592355131.