The Triangle Garden is a community garden in Ransom’s Recreation Ground, Hitchin, Herts. Our facilities also include a community building and several allotments. Our key therapeutic projects are Growing Ability, a social therapeutic horticulture project for adults with learning disabilities, Garden Club, and New Shoots, supported volunteering to improve physical and mental wellbeing. This role is a 1:1 role for a specific person we support who comes to the gardens to do therapeutic gardening, artwork and cooking.
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The hours are offered on a weekly basis as a 1:1 for an individual that attends the gardens and will mirror this individual’s attendance.
Day to day duties include:
- Assisting the individual to get involved with cooking activities, artwork and gardening activities on a 1:1 basis.
- You will be working with someone with learning disabilities, who is verbal, but with some communication barriers.
- No personal care is needed
- Some help with eating (such as preparing drinks and opening wrappers) will be needed.
