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Green Hub Facilitator & Community Gardener
Are you passionate about green spaces, community empowerment, and sustainable gardening? Do you thrive outdoors, love working with people, and want to make a real difference in urban communities?
Bankside Open Spaces Trust (BOST) is looking for a dynamic and enthusiastic Green Hub Facilitator & Community Gardener to lead the way in transforming and maintaining community green spaces across our vibrant neighbourhoods with residents, volunteers and corporate groups.
Reports to: Head of Parks and Community
Position type: Full-time 35 hours per week. Alternate weekends and occasional evenings.
Salary: £30,299.51 to £33,864.00 depending on experience
Benefits: 25 days of paid holiday plus Bank Holidays, 3.5% Employer’s Pension Contribution, Employee Assistance Program, Cycle to Work Scheme
Location: Red Cross Garden, Redcross Way, SE1 1HA, 56 Southwark Bridge Road, SE1 0AS, and parks and gardens around SE1 in Waterloo, Bankside, Borough and Bermondsey
Application deadline: Midnight Sunday 7 December 2025
Interviews: Thursday 18 December 2025
Please note: This role involves both office based and outdoor work. A DBS check is required for this role. Bankside Open Spaces Trust is an equal opportunities employer.
Applications: To apply, please send a CV and a personal statement showing how you meet the Job Description and Person Specification to info@bost.org.uk. Your personal statement should be no longer then two sides of A4.
About the role:
This is an exciting and varied role working with an award winning environmental and community charity in Central London. Supporting local communities to take on the ongoing management of existing community green spaces and create new or improved spaces through the recruitment, training and empowerment of Green Hub participants. We require you to have the ability to liaise and build good relationships with stakeholders in the area, ensuring long-term audience engagement.
You need to have excellent project management skills including monitoring and evaluation and be
methodical in your approach.
The ability to plan fulfilling and engaging workshops and gardening sessions ensuring they follow health and safety guidelines and carry out the relevant risk assessments is essential. You will have experience of leading groups in an outdoor environment and safe use of gardening tools. You must be practically minded and have a good level of horticultural knowledge and park or garden maintenance and food growing.
Excellent communication skills are required in both written and verbal communication and a friendly and welcoming manner. You will need to be flexible in your working approach and work together as a team to deliver the aims of our charity. This will include supporting our events, volunteering sessions and community involvement activities.
About Bankside Open Spaces Trust:
Bankside Open Spaces Trust is an environmental and volunteering charity. We were set up in 2000 by a group of local people with an aim to improve the SE1 area, making it a greener, more beautiful place to live and work.
We manage and maintain open spaces, welcome volunteers from both the community and the corporate sector, run regular gardening groups, support park steering groups, organise and take part in public events and educational projects, and offer advice to others. We collaborate closely with residents and businesses to champion green spaces.
Thousands of people enjoy our open spaces every day. Each of our sites is unique, with its own atmosphere, identity and sense of place. Our spaces include Red Cross Garden, Marlborough Sports Garden, Waterloo Millennium Green and Tate Community Garden. Our spaces have won more than 32 awards, including the UNESCO Man and Biosphere award, London in Bloom, Champion of Champions and the MPGA London Spade for our community gardening partnerships.
None of our work would be possible without our incredible team, our trustees, our board members and the continued support from The London Boroughs of Southwark and Lambeth. We are partnered with numerous charities, housing associations, educational and health organisations, landowners and individual donors who have worked with us over the years, and their continued support is what makes Bankside Open Spaces Trust what it is today.
For further information please download the Job Description and Person Specification here.
We look forward to your application to join our friendly team.
This role is generously funded by the National Lottery Community Fund and the City Bridge Foundation.
We have signed up to Groundwork’s Force of Nature campaign, created to help to shape the future of green careers. As such we’re pledging to:
We hope to be part of a movement to develop more accessible pathways for young people and inspire young people from all backgrounds to view jobs in nature as a viable career path.