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Roots to Work is a project of Sustain: the alliance for better food and farming.

Job description

Deadline for applications: Sunday 14th December 2025, midnight

In-person interviews held on: Thursday 22nd January 2026 

Start date: Wednesday 11th February 2026

• Hours: 16 hours per week.Wednesdays 9am-12pm and Thursdays 9am-4pm, and otherwise flexible around volunteer sessions, outreach work and admin tasks.
• Pay: £12.60 per hour (Real Living Wage), £26,208 pro-rata - £10,483.20
• Contract: 12 months fixed term (possibility of extension, subject to funding) February 2026 -January 2027, 12 days (28 pro rata) paid holiday
• Location: Glasbren CIC, Lords Park Farm, Llansteffan (with some flexibility for home-based admin work)
• Reports to: Project Coordinator and Board of Directors

Glasbren is a non-profit, Community-Supported Agriculture (CSA) project based at Parc yr Arglwydd | Lords Park farm in Llansteffan, southwest Carmarthenshire, Wales. Established as a Community-Interest Company in 2019, we have been producing agroecological vegetables for our CSA membership, welcoming volunteers and running courses, workshops and seasonal events for six years. Through the pandemic and cost-of-living crisis, we explored solidarity models to make our food accessible to low-income, food insecure households. We built an engaged community of practice, a supportive following and a committed veg box membership.

​​We have witnessed first hand over the last six years the power of volunteering for instilling a sense of purpose, wellbeing, belonging, positive climate action and to breathe new life into our relationship with the living world. Volunteering is a powerful vehicle for learning, knowledge exchange and for connecting people in cohesive communities of practice. It is a route to mental health and physical healing, greater confidence and employability and positive purpose in an uncertain and challenging world. We align with Welsh government goals of  increasing participation in volunteering, improving the quality of volunteer opportunities, and raising the profile of volunteering in Wales. Volunteering is the very heart of Glasbren.

In 2023, we were selected as the new tenants of the 134-acre National Trust farm, Parc yr Arglwydd | Lords Park farm, with a mandate to work for nature, people, planet, and on the strength of a vision for how we could grow the work we’ve been doing the past five years - feeding more people, stewarding more land for nature and unlocking the potential of farms like this for community-scale climate action, building community and reconnecting to food, land and culture. 

We are now looking for a Volunteer Coordinator to be a part of our mission. 

You would join us in the early years of an exciting new chapter for Glasbren, with the opportunity to grow our Volunteer offering and unlock the enhanced potential of this new site.

Our Volunteer Coordinator would help take our volunteer programmes to a new level, working to remove barriers as we understand them to participation. They’d hold a space and a culture that is safe, inclusive and ‘no duress’, monitoring and evaluating the effectiveness of volunteer programmes. The role would also involve developing new and existing relationships with third and public sector organisations and community groups for recruitment of volunteers and to develop a sustainability strategy beyond the term of this contract. Working with our wider team and board of directors, our Volunteer Coordinator would help to enhance and nurture our existing volunteer programmes and community of engaged volunteers, understand and uphold the unique Glasbren volunteering culture, and help unlock the potential in volunteering for individual, collective and ecological health and healing.

Purpose of the Role:

The Volunteer Coordinator will lead the development, coordination, and delivery of Glasbren’s volunteer programme, ensuring it is inclusive, accessible, and enriching for all participants. 

Key Responsibilities

Volunteer Programme Delivery

• Work with our wider farm team to plan, organise, and deliver a varied programme of volunteer sessions  - including horticulture, nature connection, conservation, cooking, carpentry, and other farm-based activities. 
• Provide induction, safeguarding, and ongoing support for all volunteers.
• Facilitate an inclusive, safe and supportive environment for volunteers of all abilities and backgrounds, upholding the Glasbren Values and Code of Conduct. 
• Overseeing the proper care of the communal volunteer kitchen space, food and refreshments, tools and equipment. 
• Coordinate with farm team, directors and partners to plan activity delivery to fit in with wider farm strategy.
• To develop training opportunities for volunteers and skills development with a focus on employability.

Welsh Language & Culture

• Integrate the Welsh language into volunteer activities
• Work with the Glasbren team to ensure bilingual materials and communication where possible.
• Encourage volunteers to use and learn Welsh in a friendly and accessible way.

Outreach & Engagement

• Build and maintain relationships with community groups, youth groups, CVCs, third-sector organisations and local partners to recruit and support volunteers.
• Actively reach out to individuals facing barriers to participation (e.g. transport, accessibility, language).
• Promote volunteering opportunities through social media, newsletters, and local events.
• Develop partnerships with local authority and public sector for green social prescribing
• To widen the reach of our volunteer opportunities, with a particular focus on the LGBTQ+ community, global majority groups, wheelchair users, Welsh speakers, groups with additional learning needs and young people.  

Monitoring & Evaluation

• Maintain accurate volunteer records, attendance logs, and feedback surveys.
• Collect and share impact data to contribute to Glasbren’s Social Value reporting and use monitoring information to improve and adapt the volunteer programme.

Team Collaboration

• Work closely with the Project Coordinator, directors, and wider farm team to integrate volunteers into all aspects of Glasbren’s work.
• Support volunteers to take on leadership roles and coordinate sessions independently.

Essential

• Strong people skills and the ability to motivate and support volunteers.
• Commitment to inclusivity, accessibility, and community wellbeing.
• Organised, proactive, and adaptable, with good time management.
• An interest in sustainability, food growing, and nature-connected practices and a passion for involving people in food growing, farming and the land.
• Ability to work outdoors in varied weather conditions.
• A clean drivers license

Desirable 

• A Welsh speaker 
• Experience working with neurodivergence, mental health challenges e.g. anxiety, depression and in accessibility.
• Experience working in a community farm/community-supported agriculture setting
• Some working knowledge and experience of some of the kinds of activities our volunteers are likely to undertake e.g horticulture, conservation, carpentry etc
• Knowledge of safeguarding practice and procedure.
• First aid training

We look forward to hearing from you. If you have any questions about the role, please do not hesitate to get in touch.

Application information

To apply, please email us at hello@glasbren.org.uk with the subject heading ‘VOLUNTEER COORDINATOR’, attaching your CV and a cover letter (no more than two pages) answering the following questions:

1. What drew you to apply for this role?
2. What past experience do you think prepares you for this role, and why?
3. How would you propose to reach out to new prospective volunteers from:
   • a) first language Welsh speakers
   • b) the local LGBTQIA+ community
4. What methods might you use to monitor and demonstrate the impact of our volunteering to funders, stakeholders and our community?

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