Many Care Homes need volunteers to help care for their gardens, involving all the usual tasks a garden needs.
Can you help improve their local environment, make the gardens flourish and enrich the lives of residents and make the garden a more beautiful place?
No horticultural qualifications required, but experience of maintaining a garden would be advantageous.
Please get in touch – Thank you.
Volunteering with us
If you join our team we are with you every step of the way.
The training we cover is mapped to the Care Certificate and will very much depend on the individual, the Care Home and the volunteering role.
Our package of training includes the below and is generally completed before volunteers start.
Training sessions are tutor led virtual training groups of 6-8 people, and we will tailor this to the volunteers needs for timings.
- Safeguarding
- Infection Control
- Information governance and confidentiality.
- Working with residents / person cantered support.
- The care home environment.
- Dementia awareness
Volunteer benefits
Volunteering in a Care Home can be an incredibly rewarding thing to do, it can change your perceptions of certain things, and can allow you to build long-lasting friendships with residents and staff of the Care Home.
New Career: It could lead to a new career, you never know, you might enjoy working in the care sector so much that you start to wonder whether if it could become a new career path. If you have always loved the idea of working within the care sector, volunteering could be the perfect way to find out if you are suited to these types of roles.
You will stay busy: If you choose to spend your spare time volunteering in a care home, you will keep busy and will be able to make the most of your spare time.
Putting your problems into perspective. Seeing other people’s problems, such as illness like dementia, will help to put your problems into perspective. Those little things you have been worrying yourself silly over will seem far less important when you hear about other people’s problems that are more serious than yours.
Community – Sharing your time and skills for the benefit of others promotes the wellbeing of users of the services, staff, local communities and yourselves. At the same time you are championing our cause within the wider community.
Helping people: What is better than helping others? How many people can say that they use their spare time purely to help other people? By choosing to volunteer at a care home, whether that’s as someone who reads to the residents, helps with meal times, or does some cleaning, you will be making life better for the residents.
Making a difference: Having a fresh face, or someone new to talk to really does make a huge difference to the residents of care homes and puts a smile on their faces.
Making friends: If you chose to volunteer in a care home, you will have the opportunity to build strong relationships, both with the residents and other carers. By taking the time to get to know the residents and the carers, you can begin to build long term friendships with them.
Learn from Others: One of the fantastic things about working with the elderly people is that you can learn a lot from them. Every single day you will hear old stories and learn about new pieces of history – you can learn a lot from older people if you just take the time to listen.