Moss Bank Park Volunteer Role Description
What is a COMMUNITY FOOD GROWING HUB Volunteer?
The aim of the community food growing hub is to provide a place where individuals, families, community groups and schools visit to gain new skills. As a volunteer with the food growing hub you will have the opportunity to empower local people to improve their quality of life, and to get involved with projects and activities at the Food Hub. The projects that you will help to support will tackle the key local problems, like childhood obesity, unhealthy eating habits and lack of access to fresh and healthy produce.
What’s in it for you?
- Being part of a friendly team
- The feel-good factor from taking part in such a worthwhile project
- Learning new skills & getting your hands dirty
- Developing employability skills like Health & Safety, Team Building and learning how to grow, nurture, harvest and cook fresh local produce
- Enjoying your time with The Lancashire Wildlife Trust
What’s involved?
· Working face to face with people of all ages, abilities and cultures from the local area.
· Working together with other community organizations
· Supporting local people to build relationships with the Food Hub
· Creating long term projects, which allow hard to reach groups grow fresh food
· Learn how to secure funding to ensure worthwhile projects last.
This role will suit people who
- Good organizational skills
- Don’t mind working alone and using own initiative
- Enjoy being outdoors, and taking part in physical tasks
- Are able to commit to the same days each week
Who we are looking for?
Someone who is enthusiastic, committed and has a genuine passion for helping others. This volunteering opportunity would be ideal for local people, students, retired people and young people who want to learn new skills and meet new people.
Extra information
Your place / Moss Bank Park Bolton orEnvironmental Resource Centre
499 Bury Road
Bolton
BL2 6DH
Tel 663754 01204
Time commitment / At least 1 day per week
Volunteer Manager / Project manager
Staff Contact
(if different)
Training/Resources / LWT
Access to the Volunteer Training Programme
Health and Safety
Manual Handling
Eligible to apply for internal vacancies
Expenses / Out-of-pocket travel costs between home and volunteering place will be paid up to a maximum of £4 per day, and other reasonable expenses agreed in advance
Requirements A Criminal Records Bureau check will be required for volunteers undertaking this role.
In the second stage of the volunteer recruitment process we will ask you to provide two references.
About the Lancashire Wildlife Trust
We are part of the Wildlife Trusts movement, the UK's leading conservation charity dedicated to all wildlife. We are your local charity, working hard to improve your local area for wildlife and for you.
The Trust manages over 2,000 acres of some of the region's most precious wild places in the form of 37 nature reserves and 20 Local Nature Reserves. These provideplaces where wildlife can thrive and people can relax and enjoy the wealth of our natural heritage.
This role is purely voluntary and this arrangement is not meant to be a legally binding one or an employment contract