The Red Shed Project is a beautiful, dementia friendly garden, hidden away between a school and a church in Stevenage, Hertfordshire. Our horticultural specialists provide a wide range of activities and experiences for people living with dementia and their carer’s. Our aim is to improve physical and mental wellbeing, alleviate loneliness and reduce isolation. We run several Garden Clubs throughout the week, enabling our participants to enjoy the benefits of gardening in a relaxed and safe environment.

Volunteer Roles Required:

Garden Champion

As a Garden Champion you will have a key role in our Garden Clubs. If you enjoy being outdoors you need not worry about your gardening skills. This role is all about communication and interaction - Supporting our workshop leaders to ensure our participants have an enjoyable experience, whilst engaging in our garden, craft, and social activities – all designed to interest and be fun for our participants.

Typical duties for this role can include:

- Assisting with setting up the session.

- Joining in with social times and activities.

- Helping participants with activities, as required.

- Providing a listening ear for carers who welcome the opportunity for conversation.

- Tea and coffee making

- Assisting with clearing up after the session

- General gardening tasks to help maintain the garden.

Garden Maintenance Volunteer

If you have a passion for gardening, then this role could be for you! We would love some extra help and support with keeping our garden fabulous all year round – digging, planting, weeding, watering… If you can spare any time to help us out at The Red Shed, we would love to hear from you!

Handyperson Volunteer

There is always so much to be done here at The Red Shed, which is why we would love a handyperson to join our team, to help with some of the tasks that we can struggle with ourselves - If you’re skilled in general repair and maintenance work and could help us around the garden for a small amount of time per week, please do get in touch for some further information.

“Our Volunteers are the backbone of The Red Shed Project, making a huge contribution to the success of our Charity.”

If you require any further details about these roles or would like to request an appliction, please email: office4.theredshed@gmail.com

to register your interest and one of our team will be in contact.

To find out more about The Red Shed please visit our website.