Hospitality Manager, 22-30 hours/week
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Job Summary
We are looking for a highly organised, enthusiastic, proactive and experienced Hospitality Manager to join our Senior Team at Fordhall Organic Farm. You must have prior experience within the sector.

You will drive our hospitality strategy and lead our wonderful team to ensure Fordhall’s values are both lived and shared throughout our offer onsite. Key areas of management will include Arthur's Farm Kitchen café, weddings, private parties, Straw Lodge accommodation and a staff team of 6-10 individuals including our Head Chef. This will involve leading and managing all wedding/accommodation group bookings, as well as ensuring all the day-to-day operational processes are put in place and implemented. We are a small yet committed team and so this role is a balance between delivery and management, ensuring you have your finger on the pulse at all levels and can apply your hand to what is needed to support the hospitality team and our activities.

You will have a passion for fresh ingredients, food sovereignty and an interest in the connections between good food and gut health. You'll have experience both within the kitchen and front of house.

As a charitable, community-led organisation, you will be playing an influential and vital role in our offer to the community, ensuring we maintain a balance between profitability and furthering our charitable purpose of nourishing people, planet and soil. These are values that will be emulated throughout your role and the influence you have.

In return, we offer a supportive and welcoming work environment, paid breaks, a well-being package, flexibility around working hours (where possible with event commitments), and generally lots of good fun!

Hours: Regular Tuesday & Thursday (9.30-3.00), Fridays (9.00-5.00), up to 12 Saturdays during the summer months (for weddings/cover), and occasional weekend days during the winter months. With additional hours to cover sickness/holidays where required. Additional hours during the week will be required during busy periods. Hours can be negotiated to a degree to suit the right individual. It is likely to require up to 30 hours during wedding periods (max 12 weeks per year).

This role will suit someone who loves hospitality, but does not want to do consistent long hours or work every weekend.
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Application: Please complete the application form and send with a covering letter to the General Manager, Charlotte Hollins via Charlotte.Hollins@fordhallfarm.com
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Job Description, Pay: starting £14.15 per hour

Deadline: Interviews will take place on a rolling basis, so please send in your applications without delay.
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Start date: February 2026

Sales and Event Manager, 20 hours/week, 12-month contract
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Job Summary
We are looking for a highly organised, enthusiastic, proactive Sales and Event Manager to join our Senior Team at Fordhall Organic Farm. You must have prior experience within marketing, communications and event management/delivery. You must be task orientated and practical, whilst creative and enthusiastic about generating high quality events and experiences. This is very much a business development as well as delivery role.

Events: You will drive the creation, management and delivery of community events for our 20 year anniversary celebrations. This will include a large community celebration at Fordhall on July 4th, a musical in the autumn, Summer Solstice and Dawn Chorus walks, together with other financially viable events that engage our community with Fordhall's values and help celebrate 20 years in community ownership.
You'll hold responsibility for budgeting, booking leaders, managing logistics, guiding volunteers, risk assessments, communicating with attendees before and after the event, full clear up and pack down, related repairs and maintenance of equipment.

Sales: As a strong and creative communicator you will drive demand for meeting room bookings, private parties, corporate away days and weddings. You will meet with prospective clients, share what Fordhall has to offer and work with our Hospitality Manager to manage enquiries and provide estimates to secure bookings.

As a charitable, community-led organisation, you will be playing an influential and vital role in our offer to the community, ensuring we maintain a balance between profitability and furthering our charitable purpose of nourishing people, planet and soil. These are values that will be emulated throughout your role and the influence you have.

In return, we offer a supportive and welcoming work environment, paid breaks, a well-being package, flexibility around working hours (where possible with event commitments), and generally lots of good fun!

Hours: 18 hours per week flexible days and times. Weekend and evening work will be required to support the delivery of events. This role is a fixed-term 12-month contract to support our 20th anniversary year. However, if the applicant can make the role financially viable in the long-term through income generated, there is the possibility this can lead to a permanent position.

This role will suit someone who has a passion for delivering and running events with management experience.

Pay: £14-£15.80 per hour depending on experience
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Application: Please send with a covering letter with a copy of your CV to the General Manager, Charlotte Hollins via Charlotte.Hollins@fordhallfarm.com
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Deadline: Interviews will take place before the end of January.
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Start date: February 2026

General Assistant, part-time 10hours/week
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Job Summary
We are looking for a practical and adaptable individual who has an eye for detail and high standards to help maintain our accommodation and event spaces at Fordhall.

You’ll help ensure Fordhall is a ‘Place in the Sun’ for all that visit as you support a smooth and efficient operation onsite. Creating memorable experiences is a key element of this role. Your time allows for all the extra detail which helps us meet, and even raise, our high standards. For our accommodation offerings, you will be part of creating a quality, unique experience which engages guests fully with all aspects of the farm and FCLI, encouraging them along our customer journey. You will encourage connecting with and respecting nature as well as highlighting the climate emergency and the actions they can take to have a positive impact in their everyday lives.  

Yurts: Weekly and regular hours will include cleaning and general upkeep of our glamping accommodation on-site. This six-sleeper set of yurts requires weekly changeovers to support guests who choose to holiday with us. A minimum level of physical strength is required for this role due to our yurts being off-grid and located at the bottom of a short hill.

Maintenance: During quieter periods of yurt bookings, you will complete periodic maintenance onsite. This can include small repairs, painting, deep cleaning, varnishing etc.

Site Support: As a flexible and adaptable member of the team, you will be prepared to step in to support wherever this is needed. It could be washing up in Arthur's Farm Kitchen, cleaning and preparing the Straw Lodge for guests, repainting walls, or preparing for a site event. You willingness to be part of the team and get the job done will ensure your job remains diverse and different each day.

‍Hours: 10 hours per week split between Monday and Fridays. Additional hours available through the week as overtime to assist with holiday cover and events. This is a permanent role, with additional hours available during the months April-October.

Pay: Starting £12.30 per hour.
Job Description: Click HERE
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Application: Please send with a covering letter with a copy of your CV to the Deputy Manager, Marie Gibson via marie.gibson@fordhallfarm.com
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Deadline: Interviews will take place before the end of January.
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Start date: February 2026

Apprentice, Countryside Level 2, part-time
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Job Summary
We have a wonderful opportunity available for a young person to join our team as a Countryside Worker Apprentice. We will offer you full training and support on our community-owned farm, allowing you to get involved with many projects on-site to complete your training, whilst being part of an incredible team.

English and Maths GCSE are required to complete an apprenticeship, but we may be able to offer these through your training.

To start an apprenticeship, you’ll need to be: 16 or over, living in England, and in part-time education (to match with the apprenticeship).

‍Behaviours we'd like to see in your application and at interview:
- Enthusiasm for the countryside and environment: a positive approach to working outdoors, and undertaking practical tasks in all weathers.
- Work ethic: reliability and punctuality, commitment, diligence and a pride in doing a job well.
- Work constructively: both within a team environment and be self-motivated as a lone worker; be comfortable working both with other paid colleagues as well as unpaid volunteers.
- Flexibility and adaptability: to working locations, hours and requirements, including changes in weather conditions, situations and working environment.
- Skills development: responsibility for continual personal skills development.
- Communication and behaviour: appropriate behaviour with a wide range of people including colleagues, landowners, contractors and other professionals and the public.

For more information on what is involved with a Conservation Worker Level 2 apprenticeship Click Here

Pay: Apprentice level according to your age
Expected hours: 16 per week (Thursday and Friday), resulting in your apprenticeship taking 24-to-18 months.

Application: Please send your CV and a covering letter explaining your experience, why you wish to take up this opportunity and why Fordhall is a good fit for you to the General Manager, Charlotte Hollins via charlotte.hollins@fordhallfarm.com

Applications will be reviewed and interviews given on a rolling basis.
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Start date: immediate

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Event Catering Assistants
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Our tenant farmer runs 'Fordhall Event Catering Limited' a company that provides outside catering at venues across the country. They are looking for enthusiastic and hard-working individuals to join our dynamic event catering team at local and national events this year. You would be working on our mobile catering units, serving food and handling customer orders. No experience required, we ask that you have a can-do attitude and a good sense of humour! Ideal if you’re looking for a change of pace or for work around other commitments.
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For more information please email theteam@fordhallfarm.com
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What can I expect?

Inclusive environment

We welcome everyone - as you would expect from a community owned organisation!  Expect a flexible and supportive approach to your needs

Develop and share skills

We not only want to develop the skills you have for your role, but we also want to know what all your ‘super-powers’ are. We will encourage you to use these across the organisation to help make Fordhall a real ‘Place in the Sun’ for everyone!

Make a difference

Each and every person, no matter what the role or hours worked, contributes to making Fordhall a place for enjoyment, learning, and inspiration for our community. Supporting our staff team is big focus of our approach. 

Be rewarded

We offer competitive rates of pay, staff discounts for the shop, café and events, free parking, a recognition reward scheme, as well as offering staff social events throughout the year. When you work at Fordhall you become part of the family.

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