Midlothian Gardening Buddy Volunteer

Location:  Mostly at Midlothian Community Hospital Gardens, 70 Eskbank Rd, Bonnyrigg, EH22 3ND.

Overview

Midlothian Community Hospital Garden (MCHG) is an NHS Lothian initiative with a mission to make opportunities for good food and healthy lifestyles available to local communities.

The Community Gardens welcome hospital patients, staff and visitors, as well as individuals and groups from the local community. The gardens have a particular focus on welcoming people who are experiencing mental / physical poor health, disadvantage, isolation or poverty, sometimes these people benefit from having a ‘Garden Buddy’ while they attend.

About us

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 trusted relationships and engaging with the 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

For more information about the role, please contact: michalabradshaw@cyrenians.scot