Growing Experience is based at Sheffield Organic Growers.

We provide people with learning disabilities the opportunity to work as a supported volunteer on our 20-acre site, where we grow fruit, vegetables and flowers. 

We offer the chance to learn skills in a real work environment, to gain valuable work experience (in preparation for a job) or to further a leisure interest in growing your own food or flowers.

We do a variety of work, all tailored to the experience, interests, strengths and needs of our supported volunteers.

The work can include: gardening inside a polytunnel, weeding, planting seedlings, harvesting and sorting apples, picking soft fruit (eg. blackcurrants), planting and picking flowers etc. 

We are open to people aged 16 (year 12 and above) to 65.