Volunteering

Trustee

For Petworth Community Organic Garden

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Help grow a greener, healthier community!   

The Community Wellbeing Garden is seeking two new Trustees to join our Board and help guide the next stage of our development.

Our garden provides a welcoming, inclusive space that supports mental health, physical wellbeing, learning, and community connection through nature.

Our mission is to promote wellbeing, inclusion and skill development and support those living in economic hardship in Petworth and West Sussex through the therapeutic horticulture, rural crafts and eco-friendly practices, fostering community integration and environmental stewardship. 

Skills

• Financial expertise (e.g. budgeting, financial oversight, accountancy, or charity finance)
• Fundraising and income generation (e.g. grant applications, donor engagement, partnerships, or community fundraising)
• Corporate Sponsorship and Philanthropy
• Horticultural knowledge (e.g. gardening, food growing, cooking, landscape management, or environmental sustainability).

You do not need previous trustee experience—training and support will be provided.

Lived experience of community projects or a strong commitment to wellbeing, inclusion, and green spaces is highly valued.

About Petworth Community Organic Garden

As an Organic Food For All project, we are offering opportunities for local community members with limited means to learn to grow, and enjoy, eating fresh organic fruit and vegetables for free, and also enjoy the benefits of working and growing together as a group.

Sowing and growing vegetables, maintaining fruit trees and bushes, clearing, mulching and weeding areas; creating paths, a pond, polytunnel area; enjoying wildlife activities and rural crafts; sharing produce. All activities can be tailored accordingly to individual needs.

Details

• No - DBS check required
  If attending project sessions for further volunteering DBS will be required.
• Yes - Equality and Diversity Policy
• Yes - Expenses reimbursed
  To be discussed upon appointment
• Yes - Health and Safety Policy
• Yes - Is it fully accessible
  Current location is not but can be relocated to accommodate.
• Yes - Ongoing support
• Yes - Suitable for physical or sensory impairment
• No - Suitable for Under 18's
• Yes - Training provided
• Yes - Volunteer induction
• Yes - Volunteer Policy
• Yes - Volunteers covered by insurance
• Yes - Written role description

Availability

Trustees meet once a month on Tuesday afternoons. Additional adhoc engagement flexible depending on other commitments and availability.

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