Join our team at Plant Heritage to support our important plant conservation work.
We have a small team of staff, supported by hundreds of volunteers and thousands of members across the UK who share our passion for plants and help us to achieve our objectives. Get involved to find likeminded plant enthusiasts and gain new skills and experience.
Plant Heritage Journal Editor (Volunteer role)
Could you be the next editor of our flagship publication, the Plant Heritage Journal, which goes to thousands of members and partners twice a year? Clare Hogan is stepping down after 10 years and highly recommends the role (she's also happy to talk to anyone interested). Each edition takes a different theme and showcases the charity's important conservation work, especially National Plant Collections and the people behind the plants. This could be the perfect role for you if you're a journalist, copywriter or editor interested in plants, conservation and finding good stories. Please note this is a volunteer role with an honorarium of £800 per issue to help cover your costs e.g. travel to interview National Collection holders. The design work and printing is done professionally. Deadline midday Weds 3 Dec 2025. Find out more below.
Freelance corporate fundraising opportunity
Can you help us raise our game on corporate fundraising? We are looking for an experienced freelance corporate fundraiser to help us to make the most of some exciting opportunities in the months ahead. You'll be reporting directly to the CEO and there's a lot of scope to make a big difference. Find out more in the brief below, and get in touch with Alicia Grainger if you'd like an informal chat about the role by emailing fundraising@plantheritage.org.uk
Alan Titchmarsh with the Plant Heritage team at RHS Chelsea
Collections Coordinators (volunteer role)
Coordinators play a vital role as the link between National Collection holders in their area, the conservation team and our network of local groups. We have vacancies for collections coordinators in a few areas.
Coordinators mentor and advise people who are interested in starting a collection, support new applicants, visit existing collections, and act as the local point of contact for Collection Holder queries. You will work principally with the conservation team who train, advise and support them.
If you are in (or near) any of the counties below, and would like to find out more, please contact the conservation team :
Herefordshire, East Midlands (covering Northamptonshire & Nottinghamshire, together or separately), North Staffordshire & Bedfordshire.
The West Midlands is covered by a neighbouring collections coordinator, but we welcome enquiries here too.
Plant Exchange coordinators (volunteer role)
If you enjoy being involved with plants and people, discovering new aspects of plant conservation, meeting like-minded people and travelling once a year to the national exchange, you may be a perfect Plant Exchange coordinator!
The Plant Exchange is open to all members, and we have areas of the country where we’d like to involve more people by having a local area coordinator. It is an excellent way to learn about and acquire rare and unusual plants. Please get in touch, particularly if you are in Cornwall, Scotland (apart from Dumfries and Galloway), central England, or Wales.
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