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Teachers and educational facilitators for environmental charity

East London Waterworks Park

London, Greater London (Hybrid)

Unpaid role, expenses not paid

Voluntary

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Teachers and educational facilitators wanted to help East London Waterworks Park deliver its environmental learning goals.

East London Waterworks Park is a volunteer-led charity that has won a 2024 New London Architecture award and raised £2m towards buying land from the Department for Education to transform the 14-acre Thames Water Depot on Lea Bridge Road on the border of Waltham Forest and Hackney, into a new biodiverse park with natural swimming ponds, forest schools and community spaces.

We are seeking experienced teachers and educational facilitators to lead workshops and deliver engaging environmental education sessions to children and young people. Sessions may take place at schools or around the perimeter of the site we want to transform into East London Waterworks Park.

This role would include:

Leading hands-on outdoor learning workshops
Delivering nature-based activities to school groups
Supporting the creation of ELWP’s Under 18s volunteering policy
Supporting outreach efforts to promote ELWP’s existing learning programmes

Schools, universities and youth groups we've collaborated with include:

Waltham Forest College
Henry Maynard Primary School, Walthamstow
Buxton School, Leytonstone
Kingsmead Primary School, Hackney
Daubeney Primary School, Hackney
UCL
Royal College of Art
University of Westminster
Project Zero
Voyage Youth
Loyola University Chicago
Vanderbilt University Nashville

We're looking for people to lead on these projects and facilitate the direction of the learning working group.

The Learning Circle currently meets monthly on a Wednesday evening at 8pm for an hour on Google Meet and spends voluntary time outside of the meeting completing agreed tasks remotely

You should be an experienced teacher, educational consultant, forest school leader, training and development specialist, learning designer, facilitator or any other kind of role creating learning projects, programmes and experiences. Our roles are quite flexible. We hope that people bring radical imagination, peace with nature, and courageous inclusiveness to the role.

Your support will help young people and learners improve their environmental knowledge of design and research as well as contributing to our community-owned park. This will in turn provide a sense of stewardship over the land once the park is created and student's ideas have been built into the park. Creating learning projects with educational institutions will also help our charity with the strategy to buy the land through showing the value of our environmental education programme before we create the park.

You will have a significant impact on the creation of a new biodiverse community-owned park with free access natural swimming ponds. By volunteering in this role, you will help shape the future of East London Waterworks Park as a community-led environmental learning space. This will also help our charity with the strategy to buy the land through showing the value of our environmental education programme before we create the park. If you’re interested in joining us, we’d love to hear from you!

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East London Waterworks Park is a charity campaigning to create a new biodiverse park with natural swimming ponds, forest schools and community spaces

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Refreshed on: 28 January 2026

Closing date: 13 March 2026 at 08:55

Tags: Training / Learning, Business Development, Teaching, Climate Change, Conservation, Content Writing / Copywriting, Early Years, Education, Engagement / Outreach, Environment / Animal, Garden, Learning Disability, Mentoring / Coaching, Monitoring and Evaluation, Programme Management, Strategy, Students / School, Sustainability, University, Youth / Children

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Residential Youth Leader - Volunteering Role

Our Second Home

London, Greater London (On-site)

Bristol, Bristol City

Unpaid role, expenses paid

Voluntary

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Our Second Home is a youth movement that empowers migrants and refugees to flourish in the place that they call home. Our overnight activity camp for young people aged 14-18 is a chance for young people to come together and have five days of fun and excitement, supported by a dynamic and dedicated team of leaders and staff.

An OSH Leader is a supportive adult, a role model, and someone young people can feel safe being themselves around. It’s about creating a warm, fun, and consistent presence during residentials — helping young people with refugee and migrant backgrounds feel welcomed, included, and at home.

Youth Leaders for this project will be responsible for facilitating the camp, and will be directly in contact with, and responsible for, the participants. During the camp they will be ‘on duty’ full-time, meaning that they will spend the whole time with the participants, including at meals.

THIS ROLE IS ONLY FOR PEOPLE LIVING IN THE UK. We will arrange Zoom interviews with applicants separately.

Responsibilities:

Interacting and forming a bond with the participants
Creating and running fun and engaging activities for the participants
Looking after the participants’ welfare, and ensuring that they feel cared for and secure
Managing the participants’ behaviour and setting clear boundaries

Expectations and requirements:

All applicants must be interviewed and be willing to provide references on request.
Youth Leaders must set a positive example of behaviour and involvement for all participants, and adhere to the volunteer guidelines.
Youth Leaders may be required to prepare activities for participants at the camp. If asked, this must be completed in plenty of time to allow any materials or equipment to be sourced.
Applicants should be aged 20 or above.
Applicants must be eligible for DBS clearance (no criminal record that prevents applicants from working with children)
Youth Leaders must raise any safeguarding concerns swiftly and follow safeguarding procedures
Youth Leaders must follow all Our Second Home policies and procedures of (which will be explained at the Camp training days).
Anyone attending an OSH residential must test negative for COVID-19 prior to attending the programme, regardless of whether they have received a vaccine or not.

Essential skills:

Flexibility, adaptability and ability to improvise
Ability to build connection quickly with peers and young people
Ability to work in a team and communicate effectively
High level of organisation
High levels of empathy and patience
Awareness and sensitivity that some participants might be suffering from trauma

Additional desired skills:

Experience working with and/or caring for young people aged 14-18
Experience working with refugees and/or asylum seekers
Experience working with young people with special educational needs and/or disabilities
Language skills: Arabic, Dari, Pashto, Tigrinya, Somali
First Aid training
Creative or artistic abilities
Sports leadership
Ability to prepare fun and engaging activities for young people

We particularly encourage applications from those who have lived experience of being a refugee.

Please ensure you are available to come to all the following events - specific dates can be found on the application form:

Training
Pre-Residential Prep Day (on site)
Residential, in full
Feedback & thank you afternoon

QUOTES:

“Having the professional [welfare] support made me feel very support and more comfortable with the work” – BT
“The atmosphere of fun, respect, care, and community is what made the young people so comfortable and connected” – BT
“The leaders were all awesome – it was incredible to work in a team so full of hard working, intelligent, experienced people” – BT
“Seeing the kids bursting out of their shells and that being the norm rather than just exceptions was just incredible.” – CA
“It honestly surpassed anything I could have hoped for” – LK

Structure:

Youth Leaders will be supported by the Welfare Support Lead(s), who will be their main contact in the build to and throughout the camp. The Welfare Support Lead(s) will run team meetings at the end of each day and be on hand to advise and manage the Youth Leaders.

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