Gardening

On any given day, our shelters and adoption centres house hundreds of adorable animals, eagerly awaiting to find their future forever homes. With your help, we can keep their temporary home in impeccable shape. By becoming a gardening volunteer with RSPCA NSW, you’ll play a crucial role in enhancing animal welfare and maintaining the beauty of our facilities.

If you have a passion for gardening and don’t mind getting your hands a little dirty, you can help us create a welcoming space that benefits both the community and the animal in our care. 

Your efforts can help create a positive, nurturing environment for all, making a significant difference in the lives of the animals in need. If you consider yourself a ‘green thumb’ and are looking to contribute to a worthwhile cause, we invite you to join our team of dedicated gardening volunteers! 

Responsibilities and requirements

As a Gardening volunteer with RSPCA NSW, you’ll play a vital role in maintaining the beauty and functionality of our shelters. Your responsibilities will include a range of general tasks such as sweeping, planting, mowing, and weeding both our grassed areas and animal enclosures.  

Additionally, you can also help our teams tend to our on-site veggie gardens, ensuring they are provide fresh produce for our wonderful pocket pets. Your work will help ensure that our locations are welcoming for our staff, visitors, and, perhaps most importantly, our beloved animal residents. 

To help us in the role, applicants should:  

  • Be at least 16 years of age
  • Have the ability to lift 20kg
  • Possess previous gardening experience
  • Be experienced with whipper snippers, mowers, etc.  

Frequently Asked Questions

Why are volunteers so important?

Volunteers are at the heart of what RSPCA NSW does. Year after year, these generous individuals spend thousands of hours helping people and pets, providing love and care at our facilities, raising awareness in their local communities, and assisting in various roles across numerous departments.  

Every volunteer plays a crucial role in our success. Simply put, our impact wouldn’t be the same without our network of volunteers.  

Consider the many volunteering opportunities on offer at RSPCA NSW. With your assistance, we can change the lives of the people and animals seeking support.

If you are unable to visit our shelters or assist at our events, there are still so many ways you can help us protect and care for animals.  

If volunteering from home is more your style, we support volunteers looking for flexibility while receiving training and ongoing support. Make a difference from your own space as a volunteer at home!  

If you’d like to open your heart to an adorable animal companion, we can help you find your new best friend at one of our shelters and adoption centres. RSPCA NSW rehomes a range of adorable animals, including cats, dogs, birds, rabbits, guinea pigs, and more! We can help you find a forever friend at any one of our facilities. You can also adopt some of our animals through our partnership with Petbarn.  

Becoming a foster carer is another rewarding way to help our animals. If you’re unsure about adopting but looking to personally assist our animals, become a foster carer to help give our animals the love and attention they deserve!  

If you are unsure about adopting or becoming a foster carer, you can still donate to provide essential care to animals seeking their forever home. As a charity, we rely on a generous network of donors and supporters to provide any training, treatment, supplies, and rehabilitation our animals may require. Your contribution, no matter how small, can provide our animals with ongoing support, giving them a better chance at enjoying a good quality of life.  

RSPCA NSW facilitates a range of corporate experiences, from corporate donations and Workplace Giving to conferences and events. If you and your colleagues would like the chance to assist our shelter animals, our Corporate Support Days provide the perfect opportunity to volunteer with us.