Volunteer Greenkeeper at The Green Skills Centre

Cyrenians Green Skills Centre,

12 Humbie Holdings

Kirknewton,

EH27 8DS

Overview

Cyrenians Green Skills Centre is a 7-acre community smallholding in West Lothian, where we grow food, skills and community. Our project seeks to address the various challenges relating to sustainability, inclusion, learning and wellbeing in our community.

We do this in our organic market garden where we grow food using regenerative principals which we include in our local organic veg-bag enterprise.

We also have an outdoor education program where we teach green-skills to young people at risk of the causes and consequences of homelessness.

Our goal is to provide a space for cultivating relationships - with the land, with ourselves and each other and we seek to empower people in a values-led and person-centred way.

Compassion, Respect, Integrity and Innovation are at the heart of all we do.

What are the aims and expectations of the role?

· You will be part of a friendly team of staff and volunteers, supporting the work we do to tackle the causes and consequences of homelessness.

· Maintaining green areas on-site.

· Weekly grass cutting with mower, strimmer (and possibly tractor and scythe).

· Help us to systemise maintenance of green areas by working to a ‘zone’ model/map.

· Working along side staff, volunteers and residents to undertake all greenkeeping activities.

· Helping to identify and report servicing needs as well as fuel/oil levels for machinery.

· Appropriate outdoor dress and safety gear required (We can provide steel toe cap footwear and other PPE if you don’t have.)

About Cyrenians

Cyrenians is over 50 years old. We began with the creation of an innovative community to meet the needs of a group of homeless people who had fallen through the cracks of whatever support was available at the time. Our roots lie in responding to the injustice of homelessness.

We have spent the last five decades journeying with people grappling with the causes and consequences of homelessness through building and nurturing of trusted relationships and engaging with social exclusion and inequality which has so often been at the root of their tough reality. We are values-led and relationship based; our core values are Compassion, Respect, Integrity and Innovation.

Cyrenians’ head office is based in Edinburgh, with smaller offices in other areas, including Falkirk and West Lothian. Cyrenians is a Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation (SCIO), registered charity SC011052.