Volunteering at the Hackney Herbal Garden
Thank you for your interest in volunteering with us! The garden volunteering sessions provide an opportunity for people to come and spend some time with us in our garden in Hackney Wick.
About the Volunteer Sessions
The garden is located at Trowbridge Gardens, Trowbridge Road, Hackney Wick, London E9 5LA.
As a volunteer you will be helping out with different activities involved in the overall maintenance and development of the gardens. This might be herb growing and harvesting, general plant care, food growing, pruning and composting, weeding and tidying, as well as things like making signage, painting garden furniture and raised beds. The activities we do in a session vary week to week and also seasonally but always cover something to do with herbs. You don’t need any previous knowledge or experience to sign up, just a willingness to listen, learn and take part. The sessions will run outdoors regardless of the weather and will only be cancelled in extreme weather conditions that pose a health and safety threat. Please consider this and only sign up if you are happy to be outdoors in all weather conditions. We aim to make the sessions inclusive and accessible to all so when you sign up you can give us some extra info which helps us to design sessions that are supportive and safe for everyone.
Sessions take place on Saturday morning, between 10am - 1pm.
The sessions are open to adults (18 years and above)
At Trowbridge Gardens there are two garden spaces - the Herb Garden and the Big Garden
The Big Garden is open to the public ie. there will be members of the public walking through the garden to access the cafe on site during the sessions
There is an indoor toilet on site
Both garden spaces and the building (where the toilets are) are wheelchair accessible
Sign up to Volunteer
When signing up to volunteer, please only book it if you’re confident you'll be available on the day.
We have a small number of volunteers per session, so when someone reserves a space but doesn’t turn up, it really makes a difference.
If you’re unable to attend a session you have signed up for (eg. an emergency or you get sick), please let us know.
If you have any questions please send us an email camila@hackneyherbal.com.
New Volunteers
Before volunteering for the first time, we ask everyone to attend an induction session where we show you around the space and tell you more about the garden volunteering sessions. Inductions last around 30 minutes.
Existing Volunteers
If you have already volunteered with us in the past, please sign up here to let us know when you’d like to come:
Stay up to date with volunteering opportunities
If you’d like to hear about future volunteer dates as they become available, please use the form below to register your interest. By doing so, you’ll start receiving our monthly volunteer updates via email, with upcoming volunteer dates and other garden events. If you sign up, but don’t hear from us, please check your spam folder as spam filters sometimes get it wrong.
You can also follow what we are up to in the garden by following our Instagram page.
If you have any questions please send us an email Camila - camila@hackneyherbal.com
Thank you so much!
Referral info
We are open to referrals from local organisations, link workers and health coaches so if you are working with someone you would like to refer please send us an email hello@hackneyherbal.com