Activity Volunteer for Gardening Group - Stow Lodge
Are you a passionate gardener who would love to share your knowledge with others?
Do you enjoy working alongside others?
Do you have experience of maintaining a garden or allotment?
If you answered yes to all of the above, our Occupational Therapy team would love to hear from you.
Our Occupational Therapy team at Stow Lodge are looking for a volunteer who loves gardening, and who can share their passion for gardening to help patients enjoy gardening again. We need someone who enjoys working with others, who enjoys helping people become fitter and stronger again by doing something they enjoy – gardening! We need someone to support our therapy team to facilitate a rewarding and enjoyable gardening group. It is a therapeutic gardening group based at the Stow Lodge, for local patients of the community services.
The aim of the group is to support and encourage attendees to participate in any way they can with gardening activities. The goal is to improve patients balance and general health by participating gardening activities that they enjoy.Ideally, we are looking for someone who is available for 3 hours on a Monday afternoon but we could be flexible for the right applicant.
If this sounds like something you'd like to try and you can spare 2-4 hours on the same time/day each week, we would love to hear from you.
Due to the nature of this role it is open to over 18s only.
