Volunteering

Heeley City Farm is open to volunteers from ages 8 to infinity! The Farm, our food-growing sites and the Energy Centre simply couldn’t run without the brilliant volunteers who come and work with us everyday so if you’d like to get involved please get in touch! The Farm is also happy to host corporate volunteer days.

There is a waiting list for volunteer positions, so once you've expressed interest in volunteering, please be patient. We will contact you when a position becomes avaliable.

Farm Animal Care and Site Maintainance Age 8-16 All aspects of Farm Animal Care, such as:
Feeding, watering, housing, bedding, moving animals, egg collection, grooming, health checks, safety checks, cleaning out animal housing, sweeping, cleaning, tidying etc.

Contact Katie Davis on:
Tel: 0114 2580482
E-Mail: katie.davis@heeleyfarm.org.uk
Garden Centre Age 16+ Tasks both seasonal and throughout the year. Helping with the smooth running and productivity of our garden centre.

Gardening tasks include:
Sowing, pricking out, weeding out, potting on, watering and preparing hanging backsets.

Cleaning and Maintenance tasks include:
Helping to clean and tidy the poly tunnels, pot washing and repairing/renewing gardening areas as per required.

Retail tasks include:
Customer service, till use, answering queries, stock taking and arranging displays.

If you'd like to volunteer at the Garden Centre, call:
Tel: 0114 2580482
Organic Food Growing Age 16+ We offer a variety of opportunities to learn about growing food organically and successfully, in a fun, friendly and informal setting.

Regular volunteer days at our main food growing sites:
Heeley City Farm Kitchen Garden - Fridays 10.30am-12.30pm
Meersbrook Walled Garden – Mondays 10.30am-4pm
Norfolk Park Community Garden – Thursdays 10.30am-4pm
Wortley Hall Walled Garden – Tuesdays & Thursdays 10.30am-4pm (starting March 2012)
Firth Park Community Allotment - Thursdays 9.30-11.30am

Tasks include:
A wide range of gardening duties including planting, weeding, harvesting, digging, maintaining compost heaps, protecting crops, watering.
There are also opportunities to help support publicity and events at the different sites.

If interested in volunteering at our Heeley City Farm Kitchen Garden, Meersbrook Walled Garden or Norfolk Park Community Garden sites, please contact Nick Horne on:
Tel: 07941182028
E-Mail: nhorne@heeleyfarm.org.uk

If you are interested in volunteering at the Firth Park Community Allotment please contact Dot Rodman at:

E-Mail: dotrodman@heeleyfarm.org.uk

If interested in volunteering at our Wortley Hall Walled Garden site, please contact Darrell Maryon on:
Tel: 07768932613
E-Mail: wortleyorganic@rocketmail.com
Site Maintainance Age 16+ Tasks include:

Mending/building fences, painting, transporting materials and tools, laying woodchip, building structures, assisting with manure, compost production and general maintainance, as and when required.

If you'd like to volunteer, call:
Tel: 0114 2580482
Café Age 16+ Working in The Farm Kitchen, our vegitarian café.

Catering tasks include:
Making espresso based coffee, sandwiches, food preperation, making salads, snacks, main meals and desserts.

Retail tasks include:
Customer service (busy enviroment) and till use.

Cleaning tasks include:
Washing up, sweeping, mopping, cleaning kitchen appliances and cleaning the dining area.

Contact The Farm Kitchen on:
Tel: 0114 258 0244
E-Mail: alison.kitchen@heeleyfarm.org.uk
Heritage Age 8+ Opportunities in Community Archaeology and Heritage Activities.

Activities include:
Roundhouse construction, pottery, community research, excavation, finds processing, assisting at events, administration and data entry. Other opportunities, dependant on current/upcoming projects.

Contact Sally Rodgers on:
Tel: 07817 006 437
E-Mail: youngroots@heeleyfarm.org.uk
South Yorkshire Energy Centre Age 16+ Working in the SYEC visitor centre.

Tasks include:
General administration, offering basic advice & information (after induction and training) on energy efficiency, renewable energy, sustainable building and affordable warmth.

Contact SYEC on:
Tel: 0114 303 9981
E-Mail: jenny.patient@syec.co.uk
Finance, Reception and Administration Age 16+ General office duties, such as:
Filing, photocopying, typing, laminating, data entry, counting money, spreadsheets, databases, document production, answering the telephone, taking messages and offering basic information to visitors.

If you'd like to volunteer, contact us on:
Tel: 0114 2580482
E-Mail: info@heeleyfarm.org.uk