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Lend a Hand
Lend A Hand provides training and volunteering opportunities for people who are over 50 and out of work. Like Growing Youth Lend a Hand offers training opportunities in construction, landscaping, and horticulture.
During sessions, participants learn construction, landscaping, and horticultural skills in a community-based setting. They help with the construction and development of community gardens, which includes building timber sheds, vegetable beds, helping with renovation works, maintaining paths, and growing fruit and veg.
Many of the participants we’ve met face uncertainties and barriers when accessing the job market; therefore, a large focus of the project centres around supporting people to engage in nature-based activities to improve mental and physical health.
Lend A Hand participates benefit from:
Gaining practical new skills
Stronger connections in their local community
Increased confidence
Reduced social isolation
Improved overall health and wellbeing
Key information
Age range: 50+
Location: Community gardens across Edinburgh
Who’s it for: Adults out of work, facing long-term unemployment and/or disadvantage
Get involved
If you’d like to get involved, contact Kate
07548906816
Click on the links below to see how the Lend a Hand teams have been getting on in Muirhouse, the Calders, and Leith!
