Volunteer with Brighton & Hove Food Partnership

If you would like to get involved in our work we may have the following opportunities available:

Cookery volunteers

Volunteers help cookery leaders to ensure the smooth running of courses and masterclasses.

We deliver various courses and workshops throughout the year from our  Community Kitchen space in central Brighton. These include ‘community’ courses with vulnerable adults as well as commercial classes run by local chefs and food experts.

We are not currently  recruiting in the Community Kitchen as we are well supported  by our current team of volunteers.  We will post in our newsletter when will open recruitment next. 

If you’re interested in volunteering at the Community Kitchen you are welcome to send in an application form. For those filling in a form whilst we are not recruiting, please note we will be in touch when recruitment opens again.

To find out more look at our role description. Volunteers support our:

• Daytime sessions to support our community and schools sessions (usually 8.45am-1.30pm).
• Sunday daytimes
• Evenings (5-10pm shift) & weekends (different sessions) to support our commercial  cookery classes

“A big thank you to the team and chefs who create a positive environment and make it fun to volunteer in the kitchen”

Sign up to our newsletter to hear about what goes on in the kitchen.

Our directory has details about volunteering at lunch clubs, community cafes or other shared meals settings.

Seedy Sunday event volunteers

Brighton’s biggest annual gardening event takes place on the first Sunday in February each year, and a team of volunteers helps support us to run this event successfully. Volunteers help at our seed packing events in autumn & winter, and then on the event day – on the giant seed swap table or offering advice and information to those attending. Find out more about the event and volunteer roles.

Community Composting volunteers

Our community composting sites across the city depend on support from local volunteers to maintain them. Find out more about compost monitor volunteer roles.

Community Gardening

We run regular sessions for volunteers at our community gardens at:

• Saunders Park Edible Garden
• Preston Park Demo Garden
• Stanmer Wellbeing Gardens

All sessions take place fortnightly on a Wednesday morning. There is a range of gardening tasks on offer to suit all abilities as well as the chance to meet some nice people and learn about fruit and vegetable growing. Please get in touch with us to see if there are spaces available before attending.

If you would like to join us at Stanmer Park you can book  online for Volunteer Activity Sessions at Stanmer Wellbeing Gardens. This is run every two weeks with a range of garden/outdoor activities to help with the maintenance and upkeep of the gardens.  No experience necessary with a range of activities to suit you.

Downland & outdoor groups

We also deliver regular groups providing therapeutic outdoor activities for vulnerable adults in the city, particularly people living with poor mental health. Sessions are delivered in local downland & countryside locations, often based from the Clubhouse. Support volunteers work alongside our session leaders, assisting and enabling participants to complete tasks and take part in activities. This role is ideally suited to people who are interested in support work, occupational therapy or therapeutic community gardening.