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Garden Trainee

Global Generation
Kings Cross, London

Posted: 17 Dec 2025

Deadline: 5 Jan 2026

Compensation: £12.25 per hour

Ethnicity Confident scheme

Paid Traineeship Part-time Fixed term / contract

Job description

Please note: Due to funding this role is for ages 18-25 only.

As a Garden Trainee you will be building a new community garden in the middle of King’s Cross, alongside Global Generation’s team of gardeners, landscapers, and carpenters, whilst gaining new practical skills in organic gardening, and heritage building and crafts. You will help build a pond, plant a forest garden, seed a meadow, plant a resilient garden using drought tolerant plants into substrates made from building waste, and create a food growing area using techniques such as hugelkultur, polyculture and agroecology. You will also learn about seed saving and gain understanding of the value of seed sovereignty, its importance in the face of urban issues, such as pollution, disease and climate change. 

Your learning will be deepened through visiting heritage institutions such as National Seed bank at Wakehurst, and you will work alongside experts to learn heritage crafts such as basket weaving.

As a Garden Trainee you will be introduced to and will practically implement the following: 

• Practical implementation of horticultural learning, including hard and soft landscaping, such as tree planting, improving soil health, seed sowing and saving, plant propagation and path laying 
• Gain knowledge into eco-horticultural techniques, such as poly-culture and forest gardening and have the ability to apply that knowledge practically
• Seed starting for annual and perennial plants 
• Green woodworking skills, including cleft fence making
• Learn about resilient plant selection and growing mediums through the creation of the construction waste substrate garden  
• Heritage basket and trug making 
• Various other elements of community garden design, creation and building 

You will be trained in how to facilitate workshops and will assist the delivery of community build days with volunteers. This role is ideally suited to someone with an interest in regenerative horticulture and natural building techniques and who enjoys working outdoors as part of a team. This is a hands-on practical role and you will be working on an active construction site. You must be able to be flexible with changes in tasks depending on the development of the build. 

For more information about the role and how to apply, please visit: https://www.globalgeneration.org.uk/jobs

Application information

Email your Application Form, CV and Equal Opportunities Monitoring Form to jobs@globalgeneration.org.uk. You can download the forms from our Jobs page.

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