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The Gardens Trust
The Gardens Trust is a small charity dedicated to protecting historic parks, gardens and other designed landscapes in the UK. The Gardens Trust brings together people from all backgrounds united by a love and concern for historic parks, gardens and designed landscapes. Our interests cover garden history, the discovery and introduction of plants, garden archaeology and the relation of park…
Description

We’re looking for volunteers who can dedicate up to 5 hours per month to help us share our passion for historic parks and gardens, and our purpose to protect them, with new audiences.

We’re looking for enthusiastic volunteers to help us tell lesser-known or untold stories from gardens, parks and other designed landscapes across the country through our social media channels and website. The role will involve researching gardens, uncovering histories and creating content that will help us to engage new, younger and more diverse audiences with gardens and their history.

For more information about the role and the work we do to protect parks and gardens visit our website: https://thegardenstrust.org/support-us/volunteer-roles/

Duties

We’re looking for someone who: 

• Wants to help create engaging social media content 
• Would like to help create short video content for social media and our website (either to help create these behind the scenes or to present to camera) 
• Has excellent written and verbal communication skills 
• Appreciates the value of heritage and its relevance to us all - you don’t need to be a historian to appreciate historic places, objects and people! 
• Is friendly, helpful, reliable and can work well as part of a small team 
• Wants to help a small charity to protect parks, gardens and designed landscapes in the UK 
• Is willing and able to travel to parks and gardens local to them

Who will the volunteers be working with?
Other volunteers from the Gardens Trust who may be working on garden history research, social media, events or education. You'll also be part of a small tight knit group of staff who work remotely across the country and who will be ready to help support you when you need it.
Training
You'll be given all the necessary training you'll need to undertake the role which could include:
- An introduction to garden history
- An A-Z of features commonly found in parks and gardens
- Introduction to creating videos for social media

Time commitment

We expect volunteers will dedicated approx. 5 hours per month to the role. It is flexible and can be undertaken at times that suit you.
Application deadline

This organisation is one of our community partner organisations.

Like all volunteer recruiters we work with, they have signed up to our service standards, agreeing to abide by our policy on partnership working to keep you safe and supported whilst you volunteer.

You’ll never be out of pocket for volunteering through us – with in-London travel expenses to and from your volunteering guaranteed.

In addition, the team here at Students’ Union UCL Volunteering Service is here to support you throughout your volunteering journey – you can get in touch with us at any time.