Gardening Volunteer - Aylesbury
Do you enjoy being outdoors, getting your hands dirty, and helping things grow? Join Seeability as a Gardening Volunteer and support people with learning disabilities, autism, and sight loss to enjoy gardening, nature, and time outdoors. Whether you’re green-fingered or simply enjoy a bit of fresh air and teamwork, this is a fun and rewarding way to make a real difference.
About this Opportunity
Do you enjoy being outdoors, getting your hands dirty, and helping things grow? Join SeeAbility as a Gardening Volunteer and support people with learning disabilities, autism, and sight loss to enjoy gardening, nature, and time outdoors.
Whether you’re green-fingered or simply enjoy a bit of fresh air and teamwork, this is a fun and rewarding way to make a real difference.
What You Will Be Doing
As a Gardening Volunteer, you will support people we support to enjoy gardening activities and outdoor spaces. This could include:
- - Planting flowers, herbs, fruits, and vegetables
- - Watering plants and helping keep gardens tidy
- - Supporting people to enjoy sensory gardening activities
- - Sharing conversation, laughter, and time outdoors
- - Encouraging creativity, confidence, and independence
- - Helping create welcoming and enjoyable garden spaces
You do not need to be a gardening expert — just enthusiastic, patient, and happy to get involved.
The Difference You Will Make
Gardening can improve wellbeing, reduce stress, build confidence, and create opportunities for social connection.
Your support could help someone:
- - Feel calm and relaxed outdoors
- - Build confidence and learn new skills
- - Enjoy sensory experiences and nature
- - Feel included and connected
- - Take pride in growing and caring for plants
Sometimes, planting a seed together can grow much more than flowers — it can grow confidence, friendship, and joy.
Skills Required
We are looking for volunteers who are:
- - Friendly, patient, and reliable
- - Empathic, understanding, and encouraging
- - Enthusiastic about gardening or being outdoors
- - Positive and supportive
- - Comfortable supporting people with learning disabilities, autism, and sight loss
No previous experience is needed — just kindness, patience, and a willingness to have fun and get stuck in.
Requirements
- Complete a DBS check
- Provide references
- Complete online training provided by SeeAbility
We will support you throughout the process.
The Benefits of Volunteering
- Volunteering with SeeAbility is rewarding, flexible, and enjoyable. Benefits include:
- - Gaining valuable experience and new skills
- - Meeting new people and becoming part of a supportive team
- - Spending time outdoors and staying active
- - Making a genuine difference in someone’s life
- - Building confidence and communication skills
- - Receiving training and ongoing support
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If you would like to become a Gardening Volunteer, we would love to hear from you.
Please apply by emailing:
[email protected]
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About the Organisation
SeeAbility
Respect is our starting point, We spark imagination, We learn together to be our best, We believe in each other
About SeeabilityAt SeeAbility, we specialise in supporting people who have learning disabilities or autism, who may also have sight loss. Through our support, people live ambitious lives and achieve things they never thought possible, whether that's forming more friendships and relationships, enjoying new experiences and activities or finding employment.We encourage people with disabilities to challenge what they expect from life, from themselves and from wider society.The people we support overcome huge barriers to achieve exciting new things every day - they challenge us all to think about what’s possible and to rethink disability.Our self-advocacy, influencing and supported employment programmes mean more people with disabilities can achieve their ambitions, while challenging assumptions, attitudes and policies.We also campaign for better eye care for people with learning disabilities, who are ten times more likely to have sight loss. In 2023, we successfully convinced the NHS to provide sight tests in all special schools so the next generation can get the eye care they need. We also work with adults to provide information, advice and to build local pathways so people can find accessible sight tests at their own opticians.Registered as The Royal School for the Blind, SeeAbility is one of the oldest disability charities in the UK and has pioneered specialist support for over 225 years.VisionOur vision is for inclusive communities where people with sight loss, autism and learning disabilities participate as equal citizens.MissionOur mission is to champion and deliver ambitious support and preventative services alongside people with learning disabilities, autism and sight loss, enabling them to realise their goals each and every day.ValuesWe have co-produced a new set of values with people we support, families, colleagues and trustees. They will help us work towards a ‘people first’ culture that will support us as we work to achieve our strategy. These values represent people being at the heart of the charity and being the driving force for change.
