Volunteer with Botanic Gardens of Sydney

The Calyx Horticultural Display Centre Volunteer

The primary role is to offer excellence in customer service to visitors in The Calyx by providing a face-to-face opportunity for visitors to ask questions about the plants in the display. The Calyx Volunteer will promote the plant display and activities available for the visitor’s enjoyment.

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Volunteer Guides

Volunteer Guides provide visitors with general orientation and on-site interpretation, enhancing their experience with informative tours of the Garden. They cover topics of science, horticulture and site history in an engaging way. Guides also assist with other educational and administrative activities. Volunteer Guides generate goodwill and increase community support for the Gardens.

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Weed Wackers

We are currently seeking expression of interest to join a new program at the Australian Botanic Garden. Volunteers will assist our horticultural and natural areas management teams to remove and control a range of weeds on site. Volunteers will work in a small team targeting identified weeds in both our cultivated gardens and remnant bushland.

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Herbarium Specimen Mounting

Volunteers mount pressed and dried plant specimens onto archival board for the National Herbarium of NSW. Volunteers mount a wide range of plant families, from fragile orchids and lichens to bulky banksias. Approximately 80 per cent of the 1.1 million Herbarium collection is now mounted on archival paper. Attention to detail essential. We currently have sufficient volunteers but will be creating a waitlist for interested volunteers to join the program as it expands.

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Volunteer Guides

Volunteer Guides provide visitors with general orientation and on-site interpretation, enhancing their experience with informative tours of the Garden. They cover topics of science, horticulture and site history in an engaging way. Guides also assist with other educational and administrative activities. Volunteer Guides generate goodwill and increase community support for the Gardens.

Register your interest - Volunteer Guides

Volunteer Guides

Volunteer Guides provide visitors with general orientation and on-site interpretation, enhancing their experience with informative tours of the Garden. They cover topics of science, horticulture and site history in an engaging way. Guides also assist with other educational and administrative activities. Volunteer Guides generate goodwill and increase community support for the Gardens.

Register your interest - Volunteer Guides