Volunteers are essential to our work ensuring participants in our projects and activities have a great experience.
If you would like to get involved in our work we may have the following opportunities available:
Cookery volunteers
Are you friendly, organised and good with people? Enjoy cooking and learning about food?
We need a team of dedicated volunteers to support our cookery activities. Volunteers help cookery leaders to ensure the smooth running of courses and masterclasses. A sense of humour, patience and confidence in the kitchen are essential.
We deliver various courses and workshops throughout the year, mainly from our new Community Kitchen space in central Brighton. These include ‘community’ courses with vulnerable adults as well as commercial classes run by local chefs and food experts.
We are currently well supported by our team of volunteers. We will recruit again in April 2025.
Volunteers support our:
- Daytime sessions to support our community and schools sessions (usually 8.45am-1.30pm).
- Sunday daytimes
- Evenings (5-10pm shift) & weekends (different sessions) to support our commercial cookery classes
To find out more look at our role description. If you’re interested in volunteering at the Community Kitchen please send in an application form
We will be in touch when recruitment opens again.
“A big thank you to the team and chefs who create a positive environment and make it fun to volunteer in the kitchen”
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Our directory has details about volunteering at lunch clubs, community cafes or other shared meals settings.
Community Gardening
We run regular sessions for volunteers at our community gardens at:
All sessions take place fortnightly on a Wednesday morning. There is a range of gardening tasks on offer to suit all abilities as well as the chance to meet some nice people and learn about fruit and vegetable growing. Please get in touch with us to see if there are spaces available before attending.
If you would like to join us at Stanmer Park you can book online for Volunteer Activity Sessions at Stanmer Wellbeing Gardens. This is run every two weeks with a range of garden/outdoor activities to help with the maintenance and upkeep of the gardens. No experience necessary with a range of activities to suit you.
We also deliver weekly sessions providing gardening activities for vulnerable adults in the city including adults with dementia. Support volunteers work alongside our gardeners, assisting and enabling participants to complete tasks and activities in practical garden sessions. This role is ideally suited to people who are interested in support work, occupational therapy or therapeutic community gardening.
Saunders Edible Garden: [email protected]
Preston Park Demo Garden: [email protected]
Stanmer Wellbeing Gardens: [email protected]
General enquiries: [email protected] or 01273 234810