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Jealott's Hill Community Landshare
Warfield, Bracknell
Posted: 4 Feb 2025
Deadline: 21 Mar 2025
Compensation: £13.70
Paid Part-time Flexible hours Permanent
Job description
Our Project:
Jealott’s Hill Community Landshare is a successful and well-established, award-winning community project based in Warfield, Bracknell Forest, our focus is on peoples’ wellbeing, gardening and the outdoor environment.
We are brilliantly supported by a dedicated and passionate team of volunteers who, led by our Landshare Manager, utilise their gardening and other practical creative skills to plant and maintain our 6-acre site. Sharing their knowledge, they grow vegetables, fruit and flowers, tend our large orchard, help run events and grow plants to sell, alongside creating items for our pop-up shop.
Working together we provide support and empowerment for a diverse group of members from the community in East Berkshire including those with autism, learning and physical disabilities and those seeking to improve their mental and physical health by connecting with nature. Our beneficiaries include individuals in addiction recovery, with dementia, and offenders on community service. Our volunteers and beneficiaries come to us for many reasons including loneliness and isolation and find that by working and sharing together community engagement is enhanced, gardening and other skills learnt, and lives transformed.
We are now ready to develop the project further to provide a range of services to a wider group including commissioned services, children’s activities and corporate working parties.
Further information about the work and aims of JHCL CIC see: www.jealottshilllandshare.org.uk
The Role:
This role reports to the Landshare Manager. It is a fantastic opportunity for a confident, experienced gardener with an interest in both gardens and wellbeing; a passion for people as well as plants. This is a hands-on physical role with an inclusive, ‘all hands in‘, team-based approach.
Main Duties:
Preferred Person Specification: It is hoped that candidates will be able to demonstrate some skill and ability in the majority of these areas, which may have been gained in a voluntary or work capacity.
Application information
If you have any questions regarding the role please contact Claire Wallen - Director on 07484 679215
Please complete the an Application Form available on request to mch3472@gmail.com
Closing date for applications: 8am Wednesday 12th February 2025 Interviews: Monday 17th February 2025
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About Jealott's Hill Community Landshare
A community project which aims to promote the therapeutic benefits of gardening and the outdoors, by mentoring and training a wide range of people undertaking horticultural activities Volunteers work alongside groups and individuals who have little experience of horticulture. The produce grown is celebrated, enjoyed and shared. The project increases community engagement and social welfare and delivers services that lead to improvements in individuals’ mental and physical health.
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