Work Experience

We offer work experience placements to anyone aged 16+.

Work experience at Vauxhall City Farm is hands-on, rewarding, and a brilliant way to understand the realities of animal care. It’s not just cuddling rabbits and feeding goats – although you’ll get to do that too! You’ll also be involved in:

Mucking out stables and animal areas.
Feeding and watering animals
Daily cleaning routines
Assisting staff with general farmyard duties
Engaging with visitors on the farm via our front desk

Work experience is ideal for anyone considering studies or careers in animal care, veterinary nursing, zoology, agriculture, conservation, and more.

Why do a placement with us?

Explore future career options
Gain confidence in a working environment
Develop teamwork and communication skills

Learn through practical, hands-on tasks because placements are extremely popular, especially during school Work Experience Weeks, we recommend applying early as slots fill up fast.

Important requirement
All work experience students must have an up-to-date tetanus vaccination. We cannot process applications without this information, so please check with your GP before applying.

At this time we do not offer Garden, Café or Education work experience placement. We are hoping to introduce this in the near future!

Please let us know if you have any questions by contacting us on the below email address, or calling the office during working hours. If you require a paper form or a word document version of the form, please drop us an email!

Office – 0207 582 5204.

Email – volunteering@vauxhallcityfarm.org

Due to the small size of our team, we cannot accommodate supported students at this time. We hope to be able to offer this service again in the future.

“I really enjoy the work at the Vauxhall City Farm. I met only friendly people and it is fun to work together with other volunteers. I have to do a broad spectrum of different tasks. I clean the animal’s stables, feed them, give them fresh water, straw, and hay every day. Sometimes I assist with workshops for school classes where they learn how to make butter for example or get some basic information about the animals at the farm. I also enjoy helping the visitors who come every day. We give children the opportunity to pet and feed the animals, and make sure that everyone feels comfortable – the children, the parents and the animals. I notice that I get more fluent day by day. I can talk with other volunteers and the visitors all the time which is very helpful for my progress.” — Felix, International Student Placement

“My son has been working at the farm on Sundays as part of the Duke of Edinburgh bronze medal award scheme. He has loved the work. The experience has been brilliant for him. His Dad and I can see how much his confidence has increased since working at the farm and how much he has learnt. Once again many thanks to you and to all the team for making this volunteering experience such a brilliant one for him.” — C.A. Email feedback