Vacancies - last updated October 2026
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Solid Ground Coffee - Project Manager
We’re looking for an enthusiastic Project Manager to join our growing team at Young Swindon and Wiltshire to manage Solid Ground Coffee, our catering social business. Young Swindon and Wiltshire exists to empower young people to be their best self by increasing their confidence, improving relationships and increasing engagement in healthy and positive activities. We’ve been doing this for more than 25 years and would love you to join us on the adventure.
We are particularly interested in candidates who have a background in cafe management or barista training, as well as youth work. In December 2024, we opened our first expression of social business, a mobile food and coffee trailer that worked directly with the local youth justice service to give young people fresh AIR (activities, interactions and roles) by paying them as employees and training them in food hygiene, catering, customer service and barista skills. After a strong first year of running our coffee van two days a week we opened our first café and we are now looking for someone to lead the development of this project into a flourishing social business.
We are looking for a self-motivated and organised person who is passionate about helping young people and happy to play a key role in the delivery of our social business; Solid Ground. This includes day to day management of our food van, located at Clarence house, and our Café, located in Swindon town centre, as well as mentoring a cohort of young employees from across different referral pathways to gain experience, wellbeing support, skills and confidence. You will be a self-starter, confident to work on your own, but also within a supportive team around you. You will need to be a clear and confident communicator with the team, young people, wider community and our external partners. You will have experience in either the food or coffee industry and a passion for coaching young people into employment. Ultimately though, finding someone with the right character and personality is the most important thing for us.
Fore more information, please see here: Solid Ground Coffee – Project Manager – Swindon SN3 2RW – Indeed.com
Director of Finance and Compliance
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Youth Worker - Post 16 Skills
We’re looking for an enthusiastic Youth Worker to join our growing team at Young Swindon and Wiltshire (YSW)! Young Swindon and Wiltshire exists to empower young people to be their best self by increasing their confidence, improving relationships and increasing engagement in healthy and positive activities. We’ve been doing this for more than 25 years and would love you to join us on the adventure.
We are looking for a self-motivated, enthusiastic and organised person who will take a key role in the delivery of our youth engagement work and developing our new offer supporting EHCP learners with their post 16 Education. You will be a self-starter, happy to work on your own, but also able to build a supportive team around you. You will be a clear and confident communicator with both the team, young people and our external partners. Ultimately though, finding someone with the right character and personality is the most important thing for us, so if you don’t have direct experience of this, please don’t let that stop you from applying – we are happy and able to train you up as we go.
For more information please see here: Youth Worker – Post 16
Trustee - Legal
We are looking for an enthusiastic individual with a background in legal to join our trustee board! Young Swindon and Wiltshire exists to empower young people to be their best self by increasing their confidence, improving relationships and increasing engagement in healthy and positive activities. We’ve been doing this for over 25 years and would love for you to join us on the adventure!
Following a recent skills audit, we are on the look out for an individual with expertise in legal and governance to support our trustee board’s ongoing development and ambitions as they lead our organisation into our new 5 year strategy.
You will have the opportunity to:
- Contribute actively to the board by giving strategic direction, setting overall policy, defining goals and evaluating performance against agreed targets
- Represent the organisation to a wide range of stakeholders
- Ensure the ongoing growth and development of an active and impactful organisation
- Ensure we have equity, diversity and inclusion at the heart of all decision making
If you are right for us you will:
- Think strategically
- Challenge constructively
- Be creative and motivated by change
- Work well in a team
- Listen and question
We ask for a time commitment of roughly 8 evening meetings a year, attendance at our quarterly sub-committee and roughly 2 hours a month of administration.
To find out more, download our recruitment pack YSW Trustee Role – Legal and get in touch! We’d love to hear from you.
We will be a charity that offers you all the support and encouragement you need to not just do the job well, but flourish as a person. How we care for our team really matters to us, and this will reflect in how this job looks and how we look after you. If you'd like to have an informal chat with us first then please email enquiries@youngswindonandwiltshire.org.uk and we'll be in touch.
- Values based
- Company Pension
- Sickpay
- Love your work