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Volunteer Gardening Support

Location York-North Yorkshire
Job ID 2026-20928
Number of Vacancies Remaining
2
Category
Volunteering in Substance Misuse Services
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Overview

Volunteers make an enormous contribution to our work at Change Grow Live.

 

Last year over 1400 volunteers donated over a quarter of million hours of their time to our organisation.

 

Would you like to join our growing team of volunteers, and make a real difference?

Responsibilities

  • The garden at CGL York is in need of some TLC.  
  • A group from Aviva did a great job of tidying it up but now it needs some gardeners to tend for it on a regular basis
  • Do you live in York and fancy being responsible for creating and maintaining a space which makes a real difference to those who use it?
  • The garden runs next to the City Walls from Micklegate Bar and is a real sun-trap
  • It is home to all sorts of wildlife - foxes / birds
  • Space to plant up as you want
  • No Fixed hours - maybe one or two days / half days a month
  • Tools provided 

**Please note that interviews for this post will be held 28/29 Sept & 1 October

 

**You must be available for training on 12/13 October and 2/3 November (930-3.30) at Blossom Street.

Closing Date

18/9/2026

If you have any questions on this opportunity that you would like to talk through please contact us using the below details:

Dave Barf | david.barf@cgl.org.uk | 01904 464680

 

Please note that we require you to be 18 years of age or older to be considered for this volunteering role.

 

This post is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Scheme check at a basic level.

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We actively encourage applications from people from all backgrounds to help us to provide the best possible experience for the people who use our services and to make Change Grow Live a great place to work. If you have any feedback on our recruitment processes (good or bad) we’d love to hear from you so that we can make sure they are fair and we attract and recruit the best, most diverse workforce possible.

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