Volunteer

Bedford House offers meaningful volunteering opportunities and if you are looking for a friendly environment where you can make a difference, look no further!

You can get back to nature with our Volunteer Gardeners, or share your skills and knowledge as a Volunteer Tutor. Whether you want to learn something new, or share your expertise with us, we’re looking forward to welcoming you.

Do you have different talents to our existing volunteer roles? If you’ve got a unique skill to offer, we’re very open to new areas of volunteering.  Each existing volunteering opportunity is described below.

Interested in joining?  If you are interested in joining the Volunteer Gardeners please contact us on admin@bedfordhouse.org.uk or call on 020 8504 6668.  For any other volunteering please contact Lykke, on office@bedfordhouse.org.uk .

Expression of Interest Form - Word
Expression of Interest Form - PDF

Administration

WE ARE CURRENTLY UNABLE TO OFFER VOLUNTEERING IN ADMINISTRATION.

Tutoring or Lecturing

Volunteer tutors lead and run courses that fall under our Community Courses & Activities (see website for details).  They share the topics they are passionate about and the courses are Donation Based rather than Fee based.

You can commit to deliver one or more workshops, or a full course. The sessions can run any time we are open for activity already which is 12-13 hours a day most days, up to 7 days per week.

Examples of current courses are ‘Crafters’ 10:30 to 12:30 on Mondays.

If you have any skills and knowledge you are passionate about and would like to share with the community please contact Lykke on office@bedfordhouse.org.uk to discuss.

Gardening

Gardening Sessions take place in the front and rear garden at Bedford House. 

You do not need experience to join the Gardening sessions but if you have gardening experience, we hope you will share it with the other participants.

Gardening is a great opportunity for gentle physical exercise, socialising, learning basic gardening skills, or sharing gardening skills, and reconnecting with nature, self and others.

Gardening sessions are 2 hours long (you can leave any time) 10:00 to 12:00 on the 4th Thursday of the month

If you are interested, please contact the Administration Office on 020 8504 6668 to express your interest and to check when the next session is taking place.

Board of Trustees

Trustees ‘ensure their charity has a clear strategy, and that its work and goals are in line with its vision’.  A trustee’s role in a charity is to be the ‘guardians of purpose’, making sure that all decisions put the needs of the beneficiaries first. The Board of Trustees meets 4 times a year currently on a Tuesday 18:30 to 21:00. A schedule of meetings for the Board and Sub-Committees is set at the beginning of a year for the year ahead. You can find more info on the web-page www.bedfordhouse.org.uk/trustees .

If you are interested in becoming a Trustee and you have checked out the web-page mentioned above, please contact the CEO, Lykke Leszczynski on office@bedfordhouse.org.uk.

Our Lovely Volunteer Gardeners in Action!

  • Two people are gardening outside next to a flower bed, pulling weeds or trimming plants, with gardening tools and a wheelbarrow nearby on a paved area, in front of residential buildings.
  • Group of women gardening in a backyard with flowering plants, wearing hats and casual clothes on a sunny day.
  • Two women gardening in a residential yard with flowering plants, on a sunny day with partially cloudy sky.
  • A woman wearing a wide-brimmed hat and gardening gloves is crouched down planting or weeding in a small garden bed filled with various green plants, near a beige wall with climbing vines.
  • Three women working together in a garden or yard, pulling weeds and trimming plants on a sunny day. One woman is wearing a straw hat, another is in white, and the third is bent over tending to the plants. There are gardening tools and a wheelbarrow nearby, and a sidewalk with parked cars and trees in the background.
  • A woman wearing a hat, gloves, and casual clothes is tending to a garden with daisies and other flowers, standing on a paved area near a building.
  • A woman wearing a wide-brimmed hat and brown shirt tending to a garden filled with tall white daisies and other plants, with a wooden fence and parked cars in the background.
  • Two women are gardening in a lush, flowering yard in front of a brick house. One woman is wearing a hat and both are tending to the plants.
  • People gardening in a flower bed outside a building on a sunny day.
  • Two women working together in a garden on a sunny day, with trees and houses in the background.
  • People working in a community garden on a sunny day with a partly cloudy sky, surrounded by trees and residential buildings.
  • People gardening in a front yard with a variety of plants and flowers, and a street with cars in the background.