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Garden Trainee

Global Generation
Kings Cross, London

Posted: 24 Mar 2025

Deadline: 25 Apr 2025

Compensation: £12.25 per hour

Ethnicity Confident scheme

Paid Traineeship Part-time Fixed term / contract

Job description

Please note: Due to funding this role is for ages 18-25 only.

As a Garden Trainee you will be building a new community garden in the middle of King’s Cross, alongside Global Generation’s team of gardeners, landscapers, and carpenters, whilst gaining new practical skills in organic gardening, and heritage building and crafts. You will help build a pond, a forest garden, a small woodland, a meadow, hedging, as well as hard landscaping such as cleft fencing and paving.

Your learning will be deepened through gaining a Permaculture Design Course qualification with Roots n Permaculture as well as visiting heritage institutions who are experts in the crafts we will explore, complementing the practical learning that you will be gaining on the ground. 

As a Garden Trainee you will be introduced to and will practically implement the following crafts: 

• Practical implementation of horticultural learning, including hard and soft landscaping, such as tree planting, improving soil health, seed sowing and saving, plant propagation and path laying 
• Gain knowledge into eco-horticultural techniques, such as poly-culture and forest gardening and have the ability to apply that knowledge practically
• Creating and planting green and brown living roofs
• Green woodworking skills, including cleft fence making
• Various other elements of community garden design, creation and building 

You will be trained in how to facilitate workshops and will assist the delivery of community build days with volunteers. This role is ideally suited to someone with an interest in regenerative horticulture and natural building techniques and who enjoys working outdoors as part of a team. This is a hands-on practical role and you will be working on an active construction site. You must be able to be flexible with changes in tasks depending on the development of the build. 

For more information about the role and how to apply, please visit: https://www.globalgeneration.org.uk/jobs

Application information

Email your Application Form, CV and Equal Opportunities Monitoring Form to jobs@globalgeneration.org.uk. You can download the forms from our Jobs page.

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