FOG Application

Interested in becoming a Friend of the Garden (includes membership in the Garden)?
Please complete this membership application.

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PROFILE: Please tell us about yourself. Not all FOGs have gardens or gardening experience but if you do, we would like to know about your personal gardening experience. If not, what are your gardening interests?
Have you had other volunteer experience? If so, what?
Friends of the Garden come to us from a wide range of backgrounds. Do you have any special or unusual skills (eg. audio visual, financial, marketing, event organization, word processing or other computer skills, retail, cashiering, leading tours, flower arranging, accounting, teaching, etc.)?
In relation to UBC Botanical Garden and Friends of the Garden, please answer the following questions: Have you visited the Garden? If so, how often?
How did you hear about Friends of the Garden?
Do you know anyone who is a Friend of the Garden?
What appeals to you about joining the Friends of the Garden?
With regard to the following expectations of our volunteers, please answer the following: We have meetings every Wednesday morning from 10:00 am until 11:30 am with the exception of July, August and the Christmas period. Are you able to attend the majority of these meetings?
For new Friends of the Garden, there is an in-person 10-week orientation program, beginning in September, that runs on Wednesday afternoons from 12:00 pm to 3:00 pm. This orientation takes place following the regular Wednesday Friends of the Garden (FOG) meetings/presentations, which are from 10am-11:45am. Are you available to attend these sessions?
Friends of the Garden participate in various areas of volunteer work either on Wednesday afternoon or for a few hours at other times during the week. Are you able to commit to doing this?
Friends of the Garden organize and work at Apple Festival and smaller events (such as a spring event, Treasured Bulb Sale in mid-September, wreath-making in late November). We expect FOGs to be available to help set up these events and participate in them. Participation involves time on three weekends a year. Are you willing and able to do this?
There is a fee of $75.00 for your first year that covers your annual FOGs membership, the costs of the Orientation Program, and membership in UBC Botanical Garden and Nitobe Memorial Garden. For all following years, there is an annual fee of $50.00 for FOG membership that goes toward the cost of our speakers, operating expenses, etc. and membership in UBC Botanical Garden and Nitobe Garden. Is this acceptable to you?
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