Volunteer

Volunteering is rewarding and fun, plus there is no greater gift than the gift of time. There are many opportunities for members to become more closely involved with the Friends. You're bound to enjoy the friendship and sense of achievement that stems from this voluntary work.

Members of the Growing Friends at the potting benches

We need your help - volunteer with the Friends

If you would like to help, become a Volunteer (MS Word - 93 kB) or call our office today. Volunteers do need to be Members of the Friends, so if you would like to volunteer and are not a member, join us today.

Volunteer Opportunities

The Friends are currently seeking volunteers to help organise and publicise the next biennial Art of Botanical Illustration exhibition due to be held in November 2012. If you are interested in the above position please call Virginia in the Friends' office.

Volunteer Opportunities are also available in the following areas –

Event Planning and Management
Growing Friends and Plant Sales
Special Events and Exhibitions
Friends' Planning and Development
Promotion of the Friends (incl. the website)
Fund Raising
Helping Hands (see below)
Office Administrative Support
Newsletters and other Publications
Trip Planning

President and Council

The Friends have a 12 member Council that meets bi-monthly:

Patron: The Honourable Alex Chernov AO, QC, Governor of Victoria

President: Mrs Catherine Trinca

Vice-presidents: Mrs Susan Brookes & Mrs Susan Chandler

Secretary: Mr Adnan Mansour

Treasurer: Mr Maurice Castro

Immediate past president: Mrs Janet Thomson

Councillors:

Mr Peter Kelly
Dr Richard Kirsner
Dr Philip Moors, Director and Chief Executive, Royal Botanic Gardens
Mr Irwin Newman
Mrs Marta Salamon

As well as the Council, an Operations committee meets bi-monthly, plus a number of sub-committees including the Growing Friends, the Illustrators, Events and Membership & Marketing. The 2010/11 Annual Report (MS Word file - 1.5 MB) was presented at the AGM held on Monday 14 November 2011.

Committee Convenors

Editor: Meg Miller

Editorial Advisory Committee: Janet Thomson, Susan Chandler, Christine Georgiou

Events: Judy Trenberth

Botanical Illustrators: Edyta Hoxley

Growing Friends: Michael Hare

Membership and Marketing: Lee Tregloan

Volunteers: John Goodwin

Helping Hands: Irwin Newman

Helping Hands

A wonderful opportunity to volunteer in the Gardens exists with our Helping Hands Group. The Friends are seeking volunteers to assist with the enhancement and ongoing maintenance of some areas of the RBG.

The gardens at E Gate Lodge and Eastern Lodge are being maintained by the Helping Hands Group. Volunteers will be required on a weekday for half a day per fortnight from 8.00am to 12 noon.
Hands-on maintenance gardening is available for members in the Plant Craft Cottage Garden. Please contact the Friends' office if you are interested.

Volunteers working in the sales tent at recent plant sale

Plant Craft Cottage and Garden - volunteer gardeners help in these beautiful gardens

2 Growing Friends volunteers selling plants at a talk

Helping Hands volunteers start work at E Gate Lodge garden

Membership stand at Friends' plant sale

Sandra Sanger (middle) convenor of the Whirlybirds at the Eucalypts Exhibition

The rush at the Spring Plant Sale organised by the Growing Friends group

Last updated 12 Jan 2012