Swansea Community Farm is the only city Farm in Wales, and is focussed on improving wellbeing by reconnecting people of all ages, backgrounds and abilities with their food, their environment and each other.

Green Sparks Traineeship

Salary: £10,491 pa (£25,878 full time equivalent)

Hours: 15 hours (2 days) per week for one year

Location: Swansea

Swansea Community Farm is looking for a Green Sparks Trainee to work with Farm staff on their volunteering projects.

This role is funded through their National Lottery-funded Green Sparks Project, which is focussed on developing their community’s green skills and awareness of climate change and climate resilience.

You will join the Farm team for a year, learning about everything it takes to run a community farm and support the amazing volunteer teams who look after it.

This is an ideal opportunity for someone who loves the outdoors and learning new things but is struggling to break into this field.

Swansea Community Farm are passionate about creating a diverse workforce, and positively encourage applications from members of communities who are currently under-represented in the green careers field, notably candidates with mental/physical health conditions or disabilities, neurodivergent candidates, women, and people from minoritised ethnic groups. All appointments will be made on merit and in line with equal opportunities and relevant employment legislation.

This post is subject to satisfactory enhanced DBS check before starting the post.

Click here for the job description and how to apply

Closing date for applications: Midnight, Thursday 1st October 2026

Interviews: Monday 12th October 2026

Published: 18th September, 2026

Author: Clare Pilborough

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