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❤️ Student Volunteering Week ❤️ - Big Volunteer Day with Ardwick Climate Action
Organisation Details
University of Manchester Volunteering & Awards Team
Activity type: Environment and Gardening
Description of role: Student Volunteering Week is back for 2025! On Wednesday 12th February, join us for Big Volunteer Day, where we’ll be working with Ardwick Climate Action to increase the biodiversity of the Brunswick area of Ardwick and making it cleaner and greener for the residents. This includes planting hedges, lavender, bulbs and other plants.
We will be volunteering from 10am - 3pm. Sign yourself, your housemates, your course mates, and your society up for more information and to let us know you’re coming (mostly so that we know how many teabags and biscuits to buy!).
We’ll be based on Kale street (a 10 minute walk from Main Campus), where there will be a variety of different tasks to get stuck into. As a team we’ll be improving the space for local residents, wildlife and for everyone passing by. Activities will include planting hedges, mulching, weeding, a spot of litter picking and working on the existing gabion walls to promote wild life.
We’ll be joining forces with local residents, but we need as many volunteers as possible so that we can complete all the tasks we have planned! You can see what’s in store for you in this video: https://bit.ly/SVWvideo2020.
Desirable skills and qualifications:
You don’t need any skills or qualifications to take part in this volunteering opportunity, just lots of enthusiasm.
Benefits:
Big Volunteer Day gives you the chance to volunteer with other students and volunteers from our partner organisations. You’ll be working in a team, helping to make a massive difference to our local community and helping us to celebrate Student Volunteering Week. And we’ll provide refreshments!
Accessibility:
We want this day to be fully accessible, so for more information or to ask for reasonable adjustments, please get in touch!
Toilets will be available at the local Church.
Meeting Point:
kale Street
Manchester
M13 9XE
*a 10 minute walk from Main Campus*
How to prepare:
If you are staying for the whole session, please bring your own lunch! Tea, coffee and biscuits will be provided. We can direct you to local shops if you want to buy extra snacks.
Please wear appropriate cold/wet weather clothing and sturdy footwear.
We will be volunteering from 10am - 3pm. Sign yourself, your housemates, your course mates, and your society up for more information and to let us know you’re coming (mostly so that we know how many teabags and biscuits to buy!).
We’ll be based on Kale street (a 10 minute walk from Main Campus), where there will be a variety of different tasks to get stuck into. As a team we’ll be improving the space for local residents, wildlife and for everyone passing by. Activities will include planting hedges, mulching, weeding, a spot of litter picking and working on the existing gabion walls to promote wild life.
We’ll be joining forces with local residents, but we need as many volunteers as possible so that we can complete all the tasks we have planned! You can see what’s in store for you in this video: https://bit.ly/SVWvideo2020.
Desirable skills and qualifications:
You don’t need any skills or qualifications to take part in this volunteering opportunity, just lots of enthusiasm.
Benefits:
Big Volunteer Day gives you the chance to volunteer with other students and volunteers from our partner organisations. You’ll be working in a team, helping to make a massive difference to our local community and helping us to celebrate Student Volunteering Week. And we’ll provide refreshments!
Accessibility:
We want this day to be fully accessible, so for more information or to ask for reasonable adjustments, please get in touch!
Toilets will be available at the local Church.
Meeting Point:
kale Street
Manchester
M13 9XE
*a 10 minute walk from Main Campus*
How to prepare:
If you are staying for the whole session, please bring your own lunch! Tea, coffee and biscuits will be provided. We can direct you to local shops if you want to buy extra snacks.
Please wear appropriate cold/wet weather clothing and sturdy footwear.
Skills / qualities associated with the role: Practical Skills
Are volunteer expenses available?: No
Duration of role: Fixed / Short term
Start date:
End date:
Opportunity times: Wednesday AM, Wednesday PM
DBS required: Off
Can reasonable adjustments be made regarding additional needs?: Yes
Minimum hours commitment: 1
Location:
Kale Street
Manchester
M13 9XE