Volunteer Projects
Volunteering with Heywood in Bloom puts you at the heart of helping to improve our environment through horticulture, floriculture, and craft.
The Picture Frame
The Picture Frame is maintained by Heywood in Bloom volunteers, and the area around it by Rochdale Council. It provides colour coming through Heywood.
Heywood Town Centre
The flower displays, planters and hanging baskets in the Town Centre are a joint project by Heywood In Bloom and Rochdale Council.
Captain Bill Flower Boat
The Captain Bill Flower Boat adds a splash of colour opposite the Market throughout the year.
The Firestation Boat
The Firestation Boat is maintained by Heywood in Bloom Volunteers. It provides a splash of colour coming into Heywood from Middleton.
The BT Garden
The BT Garden in the town centre is maintained by Heywood in Bloom volunteers to help keep our Town looking colourful and bold throughout the year.
Heywood Interchange Flowerpots
The work on the interchange meant we had to move the flowerpots to their new home just where you enter Heywood.
Volunteering has many benefits
As a volunteer you can spend as much, or as little, time as you are able to spare helping the causes that you care about in our communities. The personal benefits of working with friends and neighbours on a community project can also help with your physical and mental wellbeing. It can also be cited on job applications.
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Volunteering with Heywood in Bloom you will be working alongside both people with experience of gardening, and people who are total novices. There are no dumb questions and we are all here to learn from each other. It is a warm welcoming atmosphere and everything you do to help us is very much appreciated.​
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We also need help from people with skillsets that you might not associate with Gardening projects, such as photography, maintenance crafts, administrative skills, web design, social media, arts and crafts, and many more, so don't think about what you can't do, think about what you can do to work with us and help us improve our environment for all of Heywood, Hopwood, and Prettywood.
Volunteer for a project
If you live near any of the above projects and your interest is in helping us to keep them looking good then please let us know which projects you can help with.
Volunteer with a skill
Alternatively, whilst gardening is our main focus, there are many ways in which our volunteers help with our projects. If you have a craft of a skill you can help us with then please tell us.