What you can do

Living Sustainably

Volunteering

Royal Botanic Gardens volunteer program

Share the volunteer experience by joining Friends of The Gardens. Members are offered a rich experience – helping to support and protect the three gardens.

Ways you can join in and help:

Information booth – come and greet visitors to the Royal Botanic Gardens – you'll receive training and updates
Catering – provide refreshments for Friends' events & activities – you can prepare or serve food and drinks, and sell raffle tickets
Works team – help set up for activities, do odd jobs and repairs
Growing Friends – propagate seeds and cuttings from plants in the three gardens (with permission and horticultural advice from Botanic Gardens Trust staff) – with weekly plant stalls to raise funds
Promotions – promote membership of the Friends through speaking to garden clubs and other organisations, as well as at Botanic Gardens Trust events
Friends' events & activities – plan, organise, publicise and work on sales desks for regular activities and special events
Office work – answer the phone, process memberships and bookings or join in a working bee for mail-outs or packaging cards

To join in the volunteer experience, download and complete the Friends' volunteer application form.