Earth in Common is looking for passionate and proactive Croft Co-ordinators to support our vibrant community space on Leith Community Croft. These are hands-on, community-facing roles that require weekend availability, initiative, and a love for local food and sustainable living. Barista experience is essential.

Farm Shop-Focused Croft Co-ordinators will focus on running our farm shop, which sells fresh local produce and ice cream, but will also be expected to help out in our café and perform various other tasks from time to time.

Café-Focused Croft Co-ordinators will focus on running our café, offering hot and cold drinks and preparing and serving relatively simple but wholesome food to our customers, but will also be expected to help out in the farm shop and perform various other tasks from time to time.

Urban Uprising

Urban Uprising improves the life chances of disadvantaged young people using rock climbing. Our programmes deliver physical, social and personal development, and give young people access to highly trained positive role models through our coaches.

We give young people who wouldn’t normally have the chance an opportunity to experience the transformational personal change that climbing can bring.

We work in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Cambridge, Bristol and London, partnering with local youth organisations to reach young people experiencing disadvantage, often from deprived communities. We also partner with climbing centres who provide instructors and entry at reduced cost.

Our Mission:

In partnership with climbing centres and committed volunteer role models, we exist to give young people diverse experiences, empowering them to improve their own life chances. Climbing creates a progressive safe space where young people can consistently take risks to develop confidence and other key life skills.

Our Values:

● Empowering: Aspirational and empowering approach

● Inspiring: Inspiring within safe boundaries

● Challenging: Activities will always have a physical and mentally challenging nature

● Supporting: Peer-on-peer support and adult/instructor support for young people

● Connected: Connected and sensitive to local youth culture

Role Summary

Urban Uprising is seeking a skilled and motivated Trusts and Grants Fundraiser to join our small, passionate team. This role is key to growing our income from charitable trusts, foundations, lottery and statutory sources to support our climbing-based youth development programmes across the UK.

You will lead on researching opportunities, writing compelling applications and reports, and stewarding strong relationships with funders. You’ll work with an established system, use AI tools to boost productivity, and collaborate closely with the Programme Manager and Trustees.

This is more than a delivery role — we’re looking for someone who wants to grow with us, as we enter an exciting new phase of development. As we expand our reach and income, this role offers the opportunity to shape and develop the fundraising function. You’ll be able to contribute strategically, work flexibly in a way that suits you, and take on greater responsibility over time.

We are looking for someone output-focused, flexible, and highly organised, who is energised by targets and committed to making a measurable impact.

ACE IT Scotland exists to advance the knowledge and connectivity of people over-50 in Edinburgh. Through digital skills coaching projects delivered across Edinburgh to improve the wellbeing and independence of older people.

To meet the ever increasing demand for our support, we are looking for an experienced, enthusiastic, and caring person to help develop and oversee our community outreach work throughout Edinburgh.

We have a team of dedicated volunteers who work with older people at various community-based settings across the city. Your job is to ensure these projects run smoothly and that our volunteers are supported to deliver the highest standard of service to our learners. This will involve travelling within Edinburgh most days to our services, which currently include locations in both Portobello and Currie.

Main Responsibilities

• Support volunteers working in ACE IT outreach projects within partner locations and at the ACE IT office
• Meet and greet learners as they arrive, we aim to make them feel welcome and reduce anxieties
• Setup coaching delivery areas, welcome service users, oversee delivery of sessions, arrange appointments, prepare equipment e.g. charge & update digital devices
• Liaise with individual venue management regarding room setup and access
• Offer support to members of the public and volunteers on the use of digital devices and online services
• Work with other staff to identify opportunities for improvement and growth across our services
• Monitor, evaluate and report on the three projects, to include - gathering feedback forms, monitoring attendance and creating occasional case studies to give an understanding of the impact our services are having on the learner and what lessons can be learned
• Liaise with external stakeholders to optimise the number of learners accessing our services
• Keep an inventory of all equipment and troubleshoot any equipment problems
• Promote ACE IT e.g. displaying marketing materials
• Undertake any appropriate tasks delegated by ACE IT Scotland Manager

Person Specification

We empower ACE IT leaners to build confidence to help themselves, achieve their potential and live with more independence. You must believe in this ethos.

Essential

• The ability to travel across Edinburgh is vital for this role
• Good digital skills, including demonstrable experience of MS Teams, Office and knowledge of Apple, Windows and Android systems. These are the systems most used by our learners
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Interpersonal skills. You must be good with people, patient and compassionate
• Experience and understanding of older people’s needs, including those who have vulnerabilities
• Understanding the importance of confidentiality and safeguarding
• Reliable and well organised

Desirable but not essential

• Experience of working with older people
• Experience of the charitable sector and working with volunteers
• Full driving license and/or own transport
• Knowledge of client management systems (we use AirTable)
• Have an awareness of specialist services in Edinburgh for signposting

Thanks to the Architectural Heritage Fund’s Heritage Development Trust programme and National Lottery players, we are recruiting a Dunfermline City Project Officer. If you have good heritage, project management and people skills, join us to develop a pipeline of FHBT historic environment projects in Dunfermline.