Description of Service:

Barnardos Buckingham Street is the home of Bereavement, Post Adoption and Birth History services, for children, families and adults.

We are seeking a volunteer with an interest and experience in gardening and caring for an outdoor environment. We hope that the volunteer would be available to come in once or twice a week over the Summer (June until mid-September) to help with the maintenance of our outdoor area as follows:

• Gardening – maintaining, weeding and watering various planted areas including trees, grasses, flowers and herbs in raised beds, pots and planters.
• Help with general tidying of any rubbish/leaf debris in the outdoor area.

Volunteer Title: 

• Gardening Volunteer with Barnardos, 23/24 Buckingham Street Dublin 1.

Description of Project:  

• Summer Garden Volunteer needed (June – mid September 2025).

Outline of Volunteers Tasks and Responsibilities:

• Gardening – maintaining, weeding and watering various planted areas including trees, grasses, flowers and herbs in raised beds, pots and planters.
• Help with general tidying of any rubbish/leaf debris in the outdoor area.

Training and Support Plan:

• Barnardos Buckingham Street will provide induction, and follow up training with volunteer, as required.
• Supervised by Project Leader with delegation to Project Staff as assigned by Project Leader.

Time Commitment:

• Flexible arrangements regarding time to facilitate volunteer while also meeting the needs of our service – minimum of 2-3 hours per week.  Project services operate Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm only.

Person Specification:

• Friendly and polite.
• Patience to deal with the various requests that can arise.
• Flexibility.
• Awareness of importance of confidentiality in relation to service users.
• Gets on well with children.
• Gardening skills an advantage.

As this volunteer role is a physical role the person should be in good health and know how to use the correct manual handling techniques when lifting, completing tasks etc.