Are you a skilled gardener who wants to contribute to creating a nurturing garden environment for veterans and their families? Do you have experience supporting people who may have experienced mental health difficulties, and delivering group activities or workshops?

If so, this could be the role for you!

About Linburn Walled Garden

The Linburn Walled Garden sits in the grounds of Sight Scotland Veterans in Wilkieston, West Lothian. At the garden, we focus on growing food, skills, and community. This half acre garden offers a place where veterans and their families can connect, learn new skills, and benefit from activities which promote positive relationships.

About the role

The Community Gardener will support the coordination and facilitation of family events and workshops hosted in the walled garden for veterans, their families and Scotland’s Veterans’ Wellbeing Alliance partners. The post-holder will also support the planning and maintenance of the walled garden. The main responsibilities for the role include:

• Support the year-round maintenance of the walled garden
• Provide informal support to veterans and their families who visit the walled garden
• Co-facilitate groups, workshops and events, including family open days
• Support volunteers to carry out various gardening activities

The role will work primarily during the day on weekdays, although some weekend work will be required.

The post is currently funded until September 2026 with hope to extend beyond this date.

About You

You’ll be an experienced gardener with an interest in supporting others to enjoy the benefits of gardening and the outdoors. You should also have:

• Great relationship building skills
• Experience in maintaining a garden throughout the seasons
• Experience co-facilitating groups, workshops and events
• Experience supporting people who may have experienced trauma

How we’ll support you

We’ll encourage you to be creative and innovative, and to take a pragmatic approach to planning and implementing new initiatives. You’ll have passionate people around you and a supportive manager. You’ll also have access to wider Cyrenians support, including our learning and development programme, and staff wellbeing services.

About Cyrenians

At Cyrenians we tackle the causes and consequences of homelessness by taking a Public Health Approach to Homelessness Prevention. We take a values-led and relationships-based approach to delivering all our services. Read more about our impact and our values.

Every day people with chest, heart and stroke conditions are leaving hospital scared and alone. You can be part of our mission to make sure that there is no life half lived in Scotland.

By joining Chest Heart and Stroke Scotland (CHSS) as a Community Garden Coordinator you can be the difference between people just surviving and really living.

You will be part of Scotland’s leading charity providing support to people at risk of developing, or living with chest, heart and stroke conditions to live life to the full again. Our services form a nationwide network of local support groups, nurses, volunteers and one-to-one support teams helping people live a healthier life and supporting families adjust to life with a heart or lung condition or after a stroke.

We are currently looking for a community gardener to help us move our project into the next stage of its development. You will have sound horticultural experience, preferably with experience of, or an interest in, food growing and wildlife gardening. A proven track record of developing and managing projects is also essential as is experience of working with volunteers/community work.

The role holder will use principles of community development combined with their horticultural skills to understand the collective needs of those at risk of developing and those living with our conditions to enable communities to improve their health and wellbeing through primary and secondary prevention via garden based activities. This is the perfect role for someone who enjoys the outdoors, working with communities and has a creative vision to take our project to the next level.

CHSS employees enjoy a variety of organisational benefits including: Company pension scheme, generous holiday allowance, company sick pay, employee welfare support and life assurance.

CHSS also supports flexible recruitment through Working Families and we are “Happy to Talk Flexible Working”.

In line with our commitment to safeguarding, this role is subject to a PVG Disclosure check. CHSS is committed to equality of opportunity and to providing a service which is free from unfair and unlawful discrimination. We therefore aim to ensure that no applicant, volunteer or member of staff is unfairly treated on the grounds of offending background.

Edible Estates is a not-for-profit which establishes community gardens and the greenspace projects in Edinburgh’s council estates. In 2022, we were awarded a contract by Edinburgh Council to support existing gardens and establish new gardens in estates which do not have them.

The purpose of the role is to Engage with communities to encourage and support participation of residents in community gardens/ growing projects in council estates across Edinburgh. Build the capacity of new and existing community garden groups to manage their gardens through good organisational practice. Provide remedial support to groups where required where policies and relationships have deteriorated. Support the positive contribution community gardens can make to their wider communities through event and services.

To be clear, the role does not include teaching participants how to grow food, designing or building community gardens, these roles are delivered by other members of the team.

The role will be working on the Growing Together project growingtogether.scot

Forgan Arts Centre is recruiting a Volunteer Engagement Coordinator to lead the development of a new volunteering programme as part of our new business plan, An Arts Centre as a Garden.

The role of Volunteer Engagement Coordinator has been developed in response to feedback from local people. The role will be responsible for the design and delivery of a new volunteer programme rooted in reciprocity that builds relationships, friendships, and a network of support and mutual aid.

The role of Volunteer Engagement Coordinator will be a ‘hands-on’ position and is suitable for someone with professional, personal or volunteer experience working with volunteers. We’d encourage a creative and critical approach that cultivates a welcoming, inclusive and rewarding volunteering programme that supports the centre’s operations and activities.