Your address, email, phone number and social profile will NOT be made visible to anyone that looks at your profile. Garden owners will only be able to contact you via an online contact form.

Once you have signed up as a full member you will be able to see any messages from customers who enquire about your services, and you will be able to message them back.

Call the customer and chat to them about their gardening needs: Did you get on well? Do you have any shared interests or people you know? Is the work they are asking of you appropriate and doable for your level of skill sets and knowledge?

If you feel confident to go ahead at this stage, before you arrange to meet them, ask them for their full name, address, email, phone number and a social media page.

Check out their address on Google Maps and most importantly, their social profiles. You must feel comfortable that the person’s profile is genuine and that they have connections within your local community.

We encourage Weeders to send the same in return so that customers can see that you are a pillar of the community too.

If you are still feeling positive about the customer, arrange to go round to see their garden. Make sure you tell someone where you are going and that you will contact them within half-an-hour if you are going to stay longer. You could also take someone with you as a chaperone.

If you feel uneasy or have concerns at any point in the process of working for a garden owner, politely make your excuses, and discontinue your interactions with them. WeWeed can not take responsibility for your safety.