Impact reporting researcher wanted to help East London Waterworks Park deliver its environmental learning goals.
What difference will you make?
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
What are we looking for?
Ideal candidates have experience in writing, content creation, social media, or nonprofit storytelling. Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to translate data into compelling narratives are essential. Our roles are quite flexible. We hope that people bring radical imagination, peace with nature, and courageous inclusiveness to the role.
What will you be doing?
East London Waterworks Park is a volunteer-led charity that won a 2024 New London Architecture award and has 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 looking for a volunteer to showcase the achievements of East London Waterworks Park's Learning Circle through storytelling, website content, and social media. This role focuses on communicating the value of our programs to funders, partners, and the public. This role will include Documenting the outcomes of existing environmental education initiatives Writing case studies and success stories from past initiatives Working with the communications team to create engaging content for the public 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 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.