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It’s not just gardens and estates that need help, hospitals, hospices and care homes around the country also welcome volunteers to help maintain their outdoor spaces. Roles vary from upkeeping communal planting areas, such as at Kingston Hospital in Surrey, to working in a specific green space, such as at Webb’s Garden, a two-acre walled garden at St Martin’s Hospital in Kent.
When deciding where to volunteer, it’s best to choose a location relatively local to you, perhaps where you already enjoy spending time. It sounds obvious, but it needs to be somewhere that you want to be – I fell in love with Fulham Palace during the lockdowns, so it’s a joy to be there every Sunday.