Outdoor learning leader volunteer roles in Westminster, greater london
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| Social Impact Family) Location: New Barnet
Children: Founders’ Triplets
⏰ Time Commitment: 2 hours per day | Monday–Friday (flexible by agreement)
✨ About This Opportunity
This is not a traditional nanny role — and we’re not a traditional family. We are a social-entrepreneur family building purpose-led businesses, community initiatives, and alternative education pathways rooted in home education, Montessori philosophy, practical life skills, and conscious parenting.
We believe:
- Children learn best through real life, not rigid systems
- Home, environment, rhythm, and example are the first classroom
- Education should develop the mind, hands, heart, and spirit
We are looking for a warm, curious, playful, and intentional individual to support our triplets through Montessori-inspired role play and hands-on learning — someone who sees childhood as sacred, powerful, and full of possibility. This role is ideal for someone who wants experience, mentorship, alignment, and future opportunity, not just hours on a CV.
What You’ll Be Doing
You’ll be supporting our children through purposeful play, routine, and exploration — helping them build confidence, independence, coordination, communication, and imagination.
Core Responsibilities:
- Facilitate Montessori-inspired role-play and learning activities
- Encourage independence, curiosity, and self-expression
- Create a calm, respectful, emotionally safe learning environment
- Engage the children in structured but joyful daily rhythms
- Support learning both indoors and outdoors
Example Activities:
Indoor Learning
- Practical life skills (pouring, sorting, cleaning, care of space)
- Sensory exploration
- Early language and communication games
- Counting, matching, and sequencing
- Role-play scenarios (real-life inspired)
Outdoor Learning
- Nature walks and observation
- Balance, coordination, and movement play
- Garden-based learning
- Imaginative outdoor role-play
- Mindful exploration and curiosity-led discovery
What You Will Gain
This role is designed to give back to you as much as you give to us.
You will gain:
- Hands-on experience in Montessori and home-education practice
- Direct mentorship from a social-entrepreneur family
- A deep understanding of alternative education models
- Experience that supports careers in:
- Early years education
- Montessori or Waldorf settings
- Child psychology or development
- Social entrepreneurship
- Community-based education projects
- A reference and real-world learning, not just theory
Future Paid Opportunities: This role begins as voluntary, but this is not unpaid forever.
As our companies and community initiatives scale:
- This role is intended to transition into a full-time 10hr days paid position
- Additional paid opportunities may open within:
- Education projects
- Family-run ventures
- Community and youth programmes
- Long-term alignment, reliability, and shared values will be rewarded
We believe in growing with our people, not replacing them.
Who This Role Is Perfect For
- purpose-driven individuals
- Students or graduates in childcare, education, psychology, or social sciences
- Montessori-curious or Montessori-trained individuals
- Creatives, carers, educators, or community builders
- Those disillusioned with rigid systems and inspired by conscious living
You don’t need to be perfect — you need to be present, patient, consistent ,curious, and aligned.
Schedule
- 2 hours per day
- Monday to Friday
- Flexible timing by mutual agreement
please have a good wifi connection for a remote Teams interview, and then also be able to travel comfortable to New Barnet (expenses covered for up to 60MINS away from EN4.)
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Actively Interviewing
This organisation is scheduling interviews as applications come in. They're ready to hire as soon as they find the right person. Don't miss your opportunity, apply now!
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!
East London Waterworks Park is a charity campaigning to create a new biodiverse park with natural swimming ponds, forest schools and community spaces


