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Joyfull Greens - Community Cookery School
Mission Statement

Cook together. Live well. Care more.
We are a new local community project dedicated to creating a better food culture. Our mission is to inspire individuals and communities to access and enjoy better quality, plant-rich food—leading to healthier, happier, more connected, and sustainable lives.
We:
- Inspire healthier, more sustainable lifestyles through the art and science of plant-based cooking.
- Connect people across cultures, ages, and backgrounds through shared food experiences.
- Empower communities with practical skills in nutrition, cooking, and mindful living.
- Celebrate diversity, sustainability, and the cultural heritage of plant-based cuisine from around the world.
Volunteering with Joyfull Greens
Finance Volunteer

Are you an organised, financially adept individual, with a few hours a month to help Joyfull Greens remotely and flexibly.?
Joyfull Greens is a fairly new Community Interest Company, we are still in our first year.
We need help with basic book keeping and end of year filing.
Advice on whether everything is done within accepted accounting practice and to help us keep proper records.
Simple monthly or bi-monthly report on the financial position for meetings (balance sheet, budget monitoring reports, cash flow, fundraising performance etc).
Qualities
- Friendly, reliable and professional.
- Knowledge of current and fundraising finance practice relevant to voluntary and community organisations.
- Knowledge of bookkeeping and financial management.
- Good financial analysis skills.
- Ability to communicate clearly
You would benefit from complimentary invites to cooking sessions and helping to make a lasting difference to your local community.
Admin Volunteer
Are you an organised, reliable individual, with a few hours a month to help Joyfull Greens remotely and flexibly.?
Joyfull Greens is a fairly new Community Interest Company, we are still in our first year.
We need help with general admin. So if you are good at word, email, telephone calls, you are the person we are looking for. We use Google Docs, so experience with that is helpful.
Qualities
- Friendly, reliable and professional.
- Excellent computer skills, admin skills etc.
- Ability to communicate clearly
You would benefit from complimentary invites to cooking sessions and helping to make a lasting difference to your local community.
Corporate Fundraising Volunteer
Are you a corporate fundraiser and networker? Have you experience to interacting with corporate organisations and local companies to fundraise? Just a few hours a month need to help Joyfull Greens remotely and flexibly.
Joyfull Greens is a fairly new Community Interest Company, we are still in our first year. This is a new role, so you can shape things for the future.
We need help with developing corporate fundraising and yearly partnerships (often called charity of the year partnerships). We use Google Docs, so experience with that is helpful.
We expect developing partnerships with food, cooking, health and sports organisations, etc.
The role may incorporate finding items for raffles and cooking sessions and creating sponsorship agreements with corporates.
Qualities
- Friendly, reliable and professional.
- Excellent computer skills, admin skills etc.
- Ability to communicate clearly
You would benefit from complimentary invites to cooking sessions and helping to make a lasting difference to your local community.
Governance Volunteer
Joyfull Greens would like a Governance Volunteer, to ensure that we are carrying out our operation legally and safely, incorporating a monthly risk register.
Just a few hours a month need to help Joyfull Greens remotely and flexibly to write some of their first applications.
Joyfull Greens is a fairly new Community Interest Company, we are still in our first year. This is a new role, so you can shape things for the future.
Qualities
- Friendly, reliable and professional.
- Excellent computer skills, admin skills etc.
- Ability to communicate clearly
You would benefit from complimentary invites to cooking sessions and helping to make a lasting difference to your local community.
Events Volunteer

Are you organised and love running events? As a new CIC we will be setting up some events for the future for fundraising, awareness raising and networking. We are in the early stages of this process, so an experienced and reliable person would be perfect to add to our team. Perhaps you specialise in planning events or perhaps you prefer being a person standing behind the table at events, being the friendly face of Joyfull Greens.
Just a few hours a month, every now and then to help Joyfull Greens would make a lasting difference to the community interest group, which is still in its first year.
Qualities
- Friendly, reliable and professional.
- Excellent computer skills, admin skills etc.
- Ability to communicate clearly
You would benefit from complimentary invites to cooking sessions and helping to make a lasting difference to your local community.
Volunteer Co-Ordinator
Are you a people person? Friendly, organised, reliable individual and definitely flexible, with a few hours a month to help Joyfull Greens remotely and flexibly.?
Joyfull Greens is a fairly new Community Interest Company, we are still in our first year.
We need help with managing and recruiting volunteers. General record keeping, ability to communicate and encourage volunteers, interview skills and basic management of volunteers. This may include co-ordinating some training in things such as food hygiene etc. So if you are good at word, email, telephone calls, you are the person we are looking for. We use Google Docs, so experience with that is helpful. May involve attending the occasional external volunteer meeting (optional).
Qualities
- Friendly, reliable and professional.
- Excellent computer skills, admin skills etc.
- Ability to communicate clearly
You would benefit from complimentary invites to cooking sessions and helping to make a lasting difference to your local community.
Volunteer Cooking Instructor / Class Teacher
Are you a people person? Do you love food, healthy and sustainable eating? Are you friendly, organised and reliable? Can you offer a morning or afternoon every now and then to instruct a session of 12 participants? Classes run from 11-1:30pm at the moment, but may progress to afternoons and evenings in the future.
You will need to demonstrate and cook a dish, giving instructions to the group to copy. In addition, you will make a salad or two as side dishes to accompany the main dish. There will be Assistant Class Hosts to help you set up, welcome guests, provide drinks, organise and clear away.
Once cooked everyone sits and eats the finished product and takes home any left overs. We currently have one Cooking Instructor / Class Teacher, but we are looking for additional cooks/chefs, either on a regular basis or special appearance. We need to add variety, so different cultural food, basic food, seasonal foods, man with a pan, budget cooking etc.
Joyfull Greens is a fairly new Community Interest Company, we are still in our first year, however, we are having great success.
Qualities
- Friendly, reliable and professional.
- Excellent cooking/chef skills etc.
- Ability to communicate clearly
You would benefit from complimentary invites to cooking sessions and helping to make a lasting difference to your local community.
Marketing and Communications Volunteer
Are you an skilled marketing and communications person with a few hours a month to help Joyfull Greens remotely and flexibly.?
Joyfull Greens is a fairly new Community Interest Group, we are still in our first year.
We need help with everything at this point in time. We are able to make several roles or one big role.
We need help with producing a newsletter, advertising on Eventbrite, press releases, publicity, leaflets and other collateral and possibly social media (although we are advertising for social media volunteers separately).
So if you like doing a particular thing in marketing and communications please get in touch.
Qualities
- Friendly, reliable and professional.
- Knowledge of website maintenance and updating.
- Ability to communicate clearly
You would benefit from complimentary invites to cooking sessions and helping to make a lasting difference to your local community.
Assistant Class Host
Bring your personality and friendliness to Joyfull Greens. We need reliable, helpful people to help us run our classes. As part of the team delivering the class, we would like you to help set up the room in advance of the class with dishes, glasses, food and utensils and to help tidy up afterwards. Y
You will welcome people into the venue, register their names and give out name badges and aprons, offer a welcome drink and show them to their seats.
During the class, you will assist and may be asked to help individuals with chopping, peeling, mixing etc. We will have a professional chef instructing everyone, so you don't have to be a qualified chef!
After cooking, we will need you to help by clearing the tables, and taking dirty plates and utensils to the kitchen. Then you will need to re-set the tables ready to eat the gorgeous food that everyone has prepared.
After eating, help clear away and then either place items in the dishwasher or wash up.
You too will be able to enjoy a free meal with the other members of the class and some conversations throughout the session. Great fun, relaxed and friendly.
We will have a list of session dates and times and you would be able to select the ones that are convenient to you.
