Job Vacancies
Events & Wedding Coordinator
Location: Bore Place, Chiddingstone, Kent
Hours: 26 – 30 hours per week
Salary: £28,000 – £30,000 per year (pro-rata), subject to experience
Are you passionate about delivering exceptional events in a beautiful, sustainable setting? Bore Place is looking for an enthusiastic Events & Wedding Coordinator to lead the sales, planning, and delivery of weddings and events at our unique 500-acre organic farm estate in West Kent.
About the Role
As our Events & Wedding Coordinator, you’ll be the key point of contact for couples, clients, and suppliers, ensuring that every event at Bore Place runs smoothly and aligns with our values of sustainability and inclusivity. You will:
- Manage enquiries, site visits, bookings, and contracts for weddings and large events.
- Lead the coordination of events from initial enquiry to final execution, ensuring an outstanding guest experience.
- Develop and implement sales strategies to grow wedding and event bookings.
- Work closely with our venue and operations teams to ensure seamless event delivery.
- Oversee invoicing, budgeting, and financial planning for weddings and events.
- Maintain strong relationships with suppliers and contractors.
- Promote Bore Place as a sustainable and ethical venue, in line with our charitable ethos.
About You
We’re looking for someone with:
- Experience in event coordination, ideally including weddings.
- A passion for delivering excellent customer experiences.
- Strong sales and business development skills.
- Exceptional organisational skills and attention to detail.
- Confidence in liaising with clients and suppliers.
- A proactive, problem-solving mindset.
- Happy working some weekends, especially during the summer to oversee events but also to do showarounds for prospective clients
- A personal alignment with the sustainability and community values of Bore Place.
- A commitment to our values as an organisation and an interest in minimising the environmental impact of large events
Why Join Us?
- A varied and rewarding role within a growing organisation.
- Opportunity to contribute to our wider mission as a values-led organisation
- Flexible working arrangements.
- 38 days paid holiday (pro-rata), including bank holidays.
- Pension scheme, life insurance, and Employee Assistance Programme.
- Staff discounts on courses and food.
- A stunning countryside location with free parking on-site.
Our Commitment to Diversity and Safeguarding
Bore Place is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and ensure all applications are assessed on merit.
The safety and welfare of children and vulnerable people is central to everything we do. All positions are subject to a Basic DBS check. We are happy to make reasonable adjustments for applicants with disabilities.
If you’re excited about the opportunity to help grow and shape our events and wedding business, we’d love to hear from you! Please complete an application form and send it to jobs@boreplace.org.
A full job description can be found here: Events-and-Wedding-Coordinator-Job-Description-January-2025.pdf
Trustee
Hours: quarterly Board meetings (typically 3–4 hours) and occasional committee or working group sessions. While remote access is possible, in-person attendance is preferred.
Salary: This role is unremunerated, however, reasonable expenses may be covered
Being a Trustee for the Commonwork Trust is an opportunity to make a tangible difference in areas that matter—regenerative farming, sustainability, and education. Whether you’re experienced or exploring your first Trustee role, you’ll work alongside a passionate team committed to inspiring sustainable living and fostering community impact. The role will enable you to play a vital role in shaping our strategy, ensuring good governance, and helping us achieve our mission of making a positive impact on people and the planet.
What We’re Looking For:
• Commitment: A strong belief in the Trust’s mission and values.
• Strategic Thinking: The ability to focus on long-term goals and balance priorities.
• Collaboration: A willingness to work as part of a diverse and committed team.
• Integrity: A commitment to acting ethically and transparently.
• Openness to Learn: An interest in building your knowledge of charity governance and the Trust’s work.
To find out more, please download our job pack here. Please email jobs@boreplace.org for more information or to arrange an informal chat about the role.
2 seasonal paid jobs at Bore Place Organic Market Garden (April – October/ mid November) 2025
The Market Garden at Bore Place is 6½ acres (mostly outdoors) and supplies box schemes, a wholefood shop, as well as attending a farmers’ market in London. We grow a wide range of vegetables and do most of the propagating ourselves. During the season you will see and experience sowing, planting, crop maintenance and harvesting.
The market garden is a medium scale vegetable growing business. We harvest to order, so you need to be able to work with deadlines and be physically fit. The work can be repetitive, and we work under all weather conditions.
The first role is Assistant Head Grower, initially for 4 days a week, increasing to 5 days a week. Basic seasonal accommodation is available for 1 person if needed. This role is for someone who can take on responsibility, manage people in the field and who has already some experience growing from seed to product. It is important that candidates are able to work using their initiative and good people skills are essential. Basic tractor driving skills are essential for this position. Start date is middle of April. Pay according to experience. Being self-employed is preferred. There can be long term engagement/annual employment for the right person, opportunities that can be explored are setting up your own or a shared business (box scheme, CSA) organising yearly events (small food festivals plus presence on social media). Work in the winter with and for our woodsman here on site to create work during the wintertime. All new initiatives need to fit within the Bore place ethos and new potential partners will need to build a relationship with the Trust.
The second position is for a seasonal worker. You will be involved in propagating, planting, weed control and harvesting, experience in similar market gardens is preferred. The work starts beginning of May. Pay according to experience and being self-employed is preferred.
Please send a short cover letter and CV to: metske.laan@boreplace.org
Voluntary Opportunities
Opportunities arise across the organisation to work alongside our staff in the gardens, kitchen, office and education teams. Take a look at our Volunteer page.