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Chef – Contractor

Role DescriptionWe are looking for enthusiastic team players, who are passionate about food with experience of cooking for large groups in a commercial kitchen. Our chefs are responsible for day-to-day functioning of the kitchen, including the management of a small team of volunteers and contractors, implementation of health and safety policies and food hygiene procedures as well as the delivery of ...
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Admin Assistant – Contractor

Role DescriptionWe are looking for an Administration Assistant to support our Coordinator with the day to day administration of our charity and retreat centre. ResponsibilitiesTasks includes but are not limited to: Answering the office phone and responding to voicemails Setting up monthly staff and volunteer meals schedules Verifying eligibility of payment plan applications and forwarding accepted requests to the accounts ...
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House Assistant – Contractor

Role Description: The House Assistant Role is an essential part of Embercombe’s operations – helping to prepare spaces for our programmes and venue hires and playing a crucial role in supporting day-to-day operations at Embercombe. This involves cleaning accommodation and indoor spaces, supporting the chefs in the kitchen with washing-up and basic food preparation, and helping to maintain a clean …

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Site Assistant – Contractor

Role Description: The Site Assistant Role is a vital part of Embercombe’s operations – helping to prepare the site and land for hosting our programmes and venue hires and playing a crucial role in supporting day-to-day operations at Embercombe. This involves providing, maintaining and developing fit-for-purpose facilities and spaces to support the needs of Embercombe as a business and a place …

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Women: Your World Needs You

By Roz Savage I didn’t used to have any sense of my power to make a difference. None. For many years I was just a corporate drone, doing my thing, usually not very well. To the extent that I was interested in world affairs, it was as a bystander. If something needed fixing, “somebody” would surely fix it. Then something ...
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Accidental Gods

By Manda Scott Science tells us that evolution happens under moments of intense pressure in any species. Also that any complex system reaches a maximal point of complexity after which it either collapses into chaos and extinction OR it shifts to a whole new level of complexity, which was impossible to predict from the previous state. Given both of these ...
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Youth Rising

By Ben Mali Macfadyen - Catalyst course facilitator “The apocalypse is always easier to imagine than the strange circuitous routes to what actually comes next.” - Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark. I arrived at Embercombe as a 19 year old activist. I was full of passion but completely burnt out by the scale of the crises in the world, ...
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The Spirit That Moves In All Things

By Mac Macartney - Founder of Embercombe The origins of The Journey and its follow up programme The Descent emerged from one of the many challenging experiences I received at the hands of my Native American mentors. It went something like this. “To discover the spirit that moves in all things and seek to align with this power is a ...
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The Children’s Fire – A Poem

By Robert Holtom It is a four-bar gate with carved insignia, like ivy creeper, and through the bars you look, you hesitate, because the train was slow and now you’re late. But it doesn’t matter, and you know that too, so enter and walk the pocked tarmac road, go quick or go slow, just know you are home, and all ...
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Knowing Myself To Be Wild

A message from Mac It is in knowing myself to be wild that I find the deepest sense of belonging. Like the bramble that spears the footpath, lurching the divide, wildness simply is and will not be gainsaid. This year the Oaks of Embercombe lay their seed upon the ground and invite all-comers to harvest, store, and move airborne to ...