Garden Buddies Membership
Garden Buddies carries out basic garden maintenance work, including: lawn mowing, hedge cutting, pruning, digging, strimming, garden clearance.
Garden Buddies is a membership scheme which provides low-cost gardening services to the people who really need it. Accordingly, snvb reserves the right to refuse membership.
To qualify as a member, garden owners must:
- live in South Northamptonshire
- be unable to carry out the work themselves, due to age or disability
- have no-one living with them or within a reasonable distance, who could be expected to help
- live on a restricted income eg, a means-tested benefit or a basic state pension.
To join, just download and print the Membership Application Form from the link below and return together with your cheque made payable to SNVB for the annual membership fee of £15 to:
Garden Buddies, Volunteer Centre, Whittons Lane, Towcester, Northants, NN12 6YZ.
If you prefer, please call us.
NB – we currently have a waiting list for Garden Buddies membership. If you would like to join, please call us to discuss being put on the waiting list. Please do not send in a form at this stage. Thank you.
Documents
Please feel free to complete and send us an application form (DO NOT PAY AT THIS STAGE), we will review the application for eligibility and contact you.
- Membership Registration Form
Please complete, sign and post to:
Garden Buddies, Volunteer Centre, Whittons Lane, Towcester, NN12 7YZ - Members Information Sheet
- Frequently Asked Questions
Once you have registered with us as a member, our project worker will fix a date to carry out an initial assessment of the work to be done. He will then provide you with a written estimate of hours and costs required. Provided you are happy with this, we will book your job in for the next available day.
For on-going jobs, just give us a ring on 01327 358264 to arrange a visit.
Costs
Garden Buddies annual membership fee is £15 and our hourly rate for work carried out is £7. Please note Garden Buddies is a not-for-profit project and these charges contribute to our running costs only.
An invoice will be sent out to you as soon as the work has been completed.