- Please note, The Orangery is currently closed for important restoration work. However, you can still appreciate it from the outside.
- Autumn catering opening times: The Stables: open daily, 10am - 5pm; Caffè + Gelato: open Saturday & Sunday only, 10am - 5:30pm
Fun but hard working, we’re a diverse business; both an inspiring visitor attraction and a busy wedding, conference and function venue. Our aim is to create a place that people will love and will want to visit over and over, creating happy memories and spending time with friends and family.
We’re looking for people who work well in a busy team environment whilst maintaining excellent customer service standards, always going that extra step to deliver a truly personal customer experience.
Please see below for details of paid and voluntary roles we are recruiting for at the moment. On site accommodation may be available if required.
We're looking for some additional ho-ho-ho for our popular Father Christmas experience this Christmas!
Hestercombe Gardens are recruiting for seasonal events staff to help deliver our busy Christmas events programme. This is a hands-on, active role, where you'll be getting out and about around the gardens at Hestercombe!
Hestercombe Gardens Trust are seeking specialist support to develop a fundraising strategy, and help us understand how we might design and operationalise fundraising within the organisation.
We're looking to appoint full-time Hospitality Assistants to join the team at our award-winning venue at Hestercombe Gardens.
We're looking to appoint a Finance Assistant to help ensure the smooth running of the Finance department, and assist the Membership Secretary with maintaining and servicing the membership scheme of Hestercombe Gardens Trust.
We’re looking for a passionate and talented chef to join our team in the busy Hestercombe kitchens, and play a part in devising our seasonally-changing menus, function & event menus
We're looking for some volunteers to help our staff up at the Visitor Reception, and help run our on-site Membership recruitment scheme.
Do you love books? Do you have online book selling experience? Then we need you. We are looking for an experienced book seller to join our team of back room volunteers in order to keep our growing inventory up to date. Hours to suit. Volunteer incentives include discounts and complimentary Hestercombe membership.
From working selling books to visitors to doing the ‘behind the scenes’ sorting there’s lots to be done in the bookshop. We have donations arriving every week that need sorting, pricing and cleaning before they can be put out for sale. And once they’re on the shelves there’s serving visitors and chatting to them about the books they like. We ask for a commitment of one morning or afternoon every two weeks.
As a volunteer in this role, you will meet and greet visitors to the new Hestercombe House Gallery, helping them to get the most out of their visit. You will have information about each of the artworks in your section and will be working as part of a team. You will be responsible for safeguarding the paintings and guiding visitors through the different rooms of the ‘pop-up’ gallery.
Hestercombe’s busy event schedule is run by a close knit, hardworking team of staff and volunteers. We’re looking for more people to sign up to seasonal events, so whether you’re interested in helping at Easter, or running an activity during the summer holidays or masterminding our seasonal garden trails – please do get in touch!
We're always looking for donations of books to stock the book shop ~ any number, any type. If you have books to donate please contact Linda Sandford.
