Volunteer Title: Gardening Volunteer 
with Barnardos, 23/24 Buckingham Street Dublin 1.

Description of Project:

Summer Garden Volunteer needed (June – mid September 2025).

Barnardos Buckingham Street is the home of Bereavement, Post Adoption and Birth History services, for children, families and adults.

We are seeking a volunteer with an interest and experience in gardening and caring for an outdoor environment. We hope that the volunteer would be available to come in once or twice a week over the Summer (June until mid-September) to help with the maintenance of our outdoor area as follows:

• Gardening – maintaining, weeding and watering various planted areas including trees, grasses, flowers and herbs in raised beds, pots and planters.
• Help with general tidying of any rubbish/leaf debris in the outdoor area.

Training and Support Plan:

• Barnardos Buckingham Street will provide induction, and follow up training with volunteer, as required.
• Supervised by Project Leader with delegation to Project Staff as assigned by Project Leader.

Time Commitment:

Flexible arrangements regarding time to facilitate volunteer while also meeting the needs of our service - minimum of 2-3 hours per week. Project services operate Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm only.

Person Specification:

• Friendly and polite.
• Patience to deal with the various requests that can arise.
• Flexibility.
• Awareness of importance of confidentiality in relation to service users.
• Gets on well with children.
• Gardening skills an advantage.
• As this volunteer role is a physical role the person should be in good health and know how to use the correct manual handling techniques when lifting, completing tasks etc.

Application process, Garda Vetting and References required

Please email CVs / details to Lisa: lisa.tobin@barnardos.ie