Advertised from 26 June 2025

Role

About Bridgend Farmhouse:

Bridgend Farmhouse is an award-winning community benefit society with charitable status based in South East Edinburgh. Our mission is learning, working, and growing together to develop a flourishing community and place. Following a successful campaign to gain community ownership of the land, the community project renovated and extended the 18th century farm steading and now runs a thriving community hub where people meet to carry out creative, physical, and purposeful activities and to share their skills and knowledge with others. We work to address social inequalities, reduce isolation and loneliness, strengthen community involvement, build local resilience, develop environmental education and stewardship, and support people to be active agents in their life. Our members are our 400+ Community Shareholders, and we are led by our Board of Directors/Trustees who are elected from our membership and are predominantly local people. We work with a sociocratic model of sub-groups and Volunteers’ Forum to inform and influence decisions at all levels of the organisation.

Purpose of the post: 

This post involves working alongside a fellow Gardening Coordinator to manage the Bridgend Farmhouse Organic Allotment and community garden. The successful applicant will use all the facilities at their disposal to organically grow and harvest food to be used in our community kitchen and café. There is a particular focus on engaging and helping adults with Learning Disabilities and local residents from our area of benefit: EH16/EH17 areas in south-east Edinburgh. The post holder will reach out to people of diverse groups to involve them in a range of gardening activities, to help address health and wellbeing inequalities, and raise awareness of environmental and climate issues. 

As a Community Garden Coordinator (CGC) you will oversee the delivery of community organic gardening sessions on regular gardening volunteer days (Tuesdays and Fridays) and training sessions at Bridgend Farmhouse allotment and garden. The post holder will coordinate and develop learning, training, and volunteering opportunities in the gardens with participants, according to their needs and abilities. The successful applicant will also help to develop partnership work and collaboration with other organisations and interest groups to utilise the allotment and gardens and, alongside the General Manager, identify further funding and income generating opportunities to sustain this project. The post holder will work closely with the Community Food/Cafe Coordinator on the overall delivery of the Farm2Fork project. 

The Community Gardening Coordinator has shared responsibility for the smooth running and maintenance of our organic community allotment garden and accompanying portacabin, wooden hut and growing structures, and farmhouse garden. They will develop and maintain the land and facilities and create robust systems to ensure the allotment and gardens can grow, to contribute to the development and growth of Bridgend Farmhouse, community kitchen and cafe. This role will require flexibility, including some evening and weekend work, to allow the team to meet community members’, groups’, and external stakeholders’ needs to ensure the success of the organisation, and highlight Bridgend Farmhouse as a community space to learn, work, and grow together.

This post post is funded by Acorn to Trees.

Application notes

Please send your CV and reasons why you should be considered for this position to Claire.Wheeler@bridgendfarmhouse.org.uk by 5pm Wed 16th July.

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