Welcome to the WWOOF UK classified ads section. The place to discover new job vacancies, courses, festivals and other opportunities to connect with nature. Is there an event or announcement you’d like to share here? If so, please email us: editor@wwoof.org.uk
Farm School Leader (Growing) – Gloucester
Starting salary: £23,967.33 per annum and a range of benefits.
This is a hands-on role responsible for leading engaging countryside, food and farming sessions for groups of beneficiary children at Wick Court, a 50-acre farm with a kitchen garden; raising pigs, poultry, sheep and cattle, equines and bees.
The postholder will create and deliver a plan for a productive growing in line with environmentally sensitive land use and lead practical management of the gardens and orchards, and maintenance across the farm.
While the role will be responsible for growing at Wick Court, the postholder will also work with the animals. As part of the wider farming operations team, the Farm School Leader will deliver knowledge-rich farming and countryside sessions for visiting children as well helping with daily farming tasks and maintenance works.
Closing date for applications: 12 noon Wednesday 12 February 2025
Further information and full job description can be found here.
Grow Wild Community Programme 2025
Grow Wild is awarding 20 groups with £2000 to transform urban spaces in Northern Ireland, Wales, Scotland and England.
They are seeking projects that:
- Boost biodiversity with a focus on UK native plants and/or fungi
- Connect people with nature and each other
- Transform an urban space
You can find out more about this programme here.
The deadline for applications is 3pm Thursday 13 February 2025
Make a round basket – course
Saturday 22nd February
11am – 2pm
Glan Y Glasnant Farm, Llanelli
Learn to make a round willow basket on this short course, using willow grown here on the farm. All materials included.
Cost: £60
For more information and how to book your place click here.
Training Opportunity – North Devon
We’re an ecological farm, horse stud and rewilding project on Exmoor, and are looking for someone to train to then take over the farm in a few years, as time is running out for us. We have been WWOOF hosts for many years going back to when WWOOF was first established.
For more details:
Email: marthekileyworthington@gmail.com Phone: 01598 741111( evenings)
Hospitality manager – South Downs Eco Lodge
Full-time: permanent contract with flexibility in working hours and weekend work expected.
£27,000 – £28,500
37.5 hours per week
Are you looking for a career development opportunity in Hospitality? This is an exciting opportunity for an individual who has prior knowledge and experience of management within the hospitality industry.
Are you energetic, hardworking, enthusiastic, and enjoy working as part of a team?
Our South Downs Eco Lodge has a 39 bed self-catering wing; a newly refurbished 25 bed & breakfast wing with bed & breakfast catering options; a small family campsite with off-grid yurts; indoor meeting rooms and Woodland Hall all set within our 55 acre woodland site.
Closing date for applications: 17th February 2025 at 9am
For full job description and how to apply click here.
Save Babbinswood Farm
We are raising funds to make Babbinswood Organic Farm co-owned by the community. We’re selling shares to keep this farm for purpose, not for profit.
This is a make-or-break situation. WWOOF hosts since 2012, Babbinswood Organic Farm as we know it will be otherwise lost forever. Let’s save it, and make something even better in the process.
We’ve launched a crowdfunder campaign and written an article for the newsletter which you can read here. Thank you for your support.
Paid opportunities at The Kindling Trust
Kindling Farm Admin Assistant
Part time: 18.75 hours (2.5 days) per a week. May involve the occasional weekend or evening meeting.
1 year contract with possibility of extension.
£24,570 pro rata per annum (for a 37.5 hour working week) plus a 5% employer pension contribution (actual salary for 18.75 hours a week: £12,225 per annum)
We are looking for someone who is efficient and organised; is good with spreadsheets; who is a good written and oral communicator; and who also enjoys a challenge!
Closing date for applications: Thursday 16th January 2025 at 5pm
For full job description and how to apply click here.
Farm manager for Kindling Farm
Full time: 37.5 hours a week. You must be able to work occasional weekends and be flexible to possible seasonal changes to start/end times where needed.
Contract: 2 years with potential 3rd year depending on start date and growth of business.
Salary Range from £27,000 – £33,150 per annum (gross) dependent on experience.
We are seeking a Farm Manager to help us get our first season off to a good start, work with us to crop plan for future years and help us transform the farm into a thriving agroforestry project for the Northwest!
Closing date for applications: Sunday 23rd February 2025, 5pm
For full job description and how to apply click here.
Community Engagement Worker for Kindling Farm Heritage Lottery Project
Full time: 37.5 hours a week You must be able to work at weekends and occasional evenings.
Contract: Approximately 10 months, until 30th January 2026
Salary: £24,570 per annum plus a 5% employer pension contribution.
We are looking for someone to help us deliver our exciting 2025 Heritage Lottery Project at Kindling Farm, with a focus on engaging a wide range of communities locally and across the Liverpool region to help shape the future of Kindling Farm!-
Closing date for application: Tuesday 25th February 2025 at 5pm
For full job description and how to apply click here.
Experienced Field Scale Grower for Kindling Farm
Full time: 37.5 hours a week. You must be able to work occasional weekends and be flexible to possible seasonal changes to start/end times where needed.
Contract: One year (possibly to be extended)
Salary: £24,570 per annum (gross)
We are looking for someone with practical experience of veg production at a field scale, including use of machinery, to join us at Kindling Farm in Merseyside at this exciting time!
Closing date for applications: Sunday 23rd February 2025, 5pm
For fully job description and how to apply click here.
Experienced grower – Kindling Market Garden
Hours: 37.5 hours a week. April to October: 5 days a week including one Saturday a month. November to March: to be discussed.
Contract: 12 months (with a possibility to extend depending on growth of the organisation)
Salary: £24,375 per annum (gross) for a 37.5 hour working week, pro rata for part time/seasonal hours, plus 5% pension contribution (this rate is based on our new flat pay structure in the team)
We are seeking an experienced, committed and passionate grower to join our small Kindling Market Garden team in Stockport.
Closing date for applications: Monday 24th of February 2025
For fully job description and how to apply click here.
The Organic Growers Gathering 2025
22nd – 24th August
Hempen Organic Co-op, Hardwick Estate, South Oxfordshire RG8 7RB
The Organic Growers Gathering is organised by growers for growers. From small scale fruit, vegetable, herb and flower growers to land workers, crafters and purveyors of folk music. Whether you’re a master of the soil or a new entrant gaining experience seeding your ideas, there is something here for everyone.
We want to platform the voices from the fields, share our practical skills and knowledge gained from direct experience. The OGG is an educational and practical space where people can take their learnings back to their farms and improve the efficiencies of their own holding, this is how the organic movement will thrive.
For more information and to buy tickets click here.
Farm Shop Supervisor & Pie Kitchen Chef – Tablehurst Farm, East Sussex
Farm Shop Supervisor
Tablehurst Farm runs a bustling farm shop in which the local community, as well as customers who travel from afar, come to buy our farm-produced and externally sourced products. To a large extent the farm shop is where the farm interfaces with the community, so it is essential that it maintains a friendly and welcoming image, provide excellent service and ensures that customers enjoy the experience of shopping at Tablehurst Farm.
Pie Kitchen Chef
Tablehurst Farm runs a thriving pie kitchen which bakes award winning pies, sausage rolls, quiches and cakes etc. These products are then sold in our farm shop and cafe. Much of the ingredients are produced on the farm so this is a great opportunity to work in a “field to fork” environment on a full-time basis (42.5 hours per week Tuesday – Saturday). Full time working hours to be 8am to 5.30pm with 1 hour (unpaid) for lunch.
At Tablehurst Farm is a care home where three adults with learning disabilities live and take part in various work on the farm. One of the care home residents currently helps with basic food preparation in the pie kitchen. The successful candidate must be willing to work with him once or twice a week, and undertake the relevant online training such as understanding learning disability and autism.
For further information about these two paid opportunities click here.
Build A Better Veg Planner – Garden Organic
Garden Organic are asking people around the UK to grow a crop of their own favourite climbing French Beans then record some of the key dates that things happened (eg planting out, first flower, first pod set etc)
This work will allow us to get a better picture of regional variations for growing crops and we will use it to improve our veg growing calendars. We will also repeat the work as a longitudinal study so that we can look at any longer-term trends due to climate change.
More information on how to sign up can be found here.
Business Skills for Market Gardeners – Webinar
Thursday 20th February
7:00 – 8:30pm
This online event by Organic Growers Alliance is an introduction to all the areas needed to start a sustainable market garden business, from finding land and funding to writing a business plan and registering with HMRC. A whistle-stop tour of all the budgeting, paperwork and admin you’ll need to consider, plus discussion and questions at the end.
To find out more about this event and to book your place click here.
Woodland Management Courses – Small Woods
23rd Feb – Creating Coppice Products: Turn freshly cut coppice wood into useful and saleable products.
Cost: £80
Further information and to book click here.
22nd & 23rd March – Green Wood Stool Making: Choose between two timeless designs and work ‘from log to stool’ to cleave, shape, and assemble your very own unique green wood stool.
Cost for the 2 days: £225
Further information and to book click here.
More courses from Small Woods run at The Green Wood Centre, Telford and other locations can be found here.
Can you get WWOOF UK into an event?
We’ve got some funky zines which open out and turn into a poster! They’re designed to help spread the word about WWOOF UK. If you’re going to an event maybe you’d like to take some zines along? They might be seen by people who’ve never heard of WWOOF and, thanks to you, they’ll discover options in life they never knew existed!!!
Just email us with the name and size of the event and an address where we can post the zines: info@wwoof.org.uk
Is there a noticeboard, allotment group board, local food café or other public space where you might be able to display one of our zine/posters? We can send you a digital copy of the zine via email for you to print out or send you some copies to put on display. Email us at: info@wwoof.org.uk and we’ll email the files to you.
Many thanks.
