Human Resources (HR)

Trowbridge Future is a community group who works with all areas and aspects of the community, helping to make a difference to the people that live within the local areas of Trowbridge and the surrounding areas. Youth - We provide youth clubs in the Seymour, Longfield and Studley Green areas of Trowbridge and a detached project across the community working with young people to improve the existing stake park and establish better provisions for young people in the local area. Helping to gain better spaces and activities for the young people and provide them with a safe place to obtain advice, guidance and information on various topics such as mental health, sexual health, life skills, bullying, cyber bullying and other issues that face teenagers. We work to support young people with qualified youth workers to talk with and engage them to help increase motivation, self-esteem and confidence. Community Hub - We also run two community hubs on the Seymour estate and within The Shires shopping centre in Trowbridge. The door is open to everyone in the community and we can provide help with signposting, offering advice and regularly display local notices and information. We also host various support groups across Trowbridge, including a kindness cafe every friday morning. We also run three community fridges distributing unsold food waste to local residents. Neighbourhoods - Trowbridge Future provides support to local community groups and residents associations to help local people address any specific needs and concerns that they have identified. Trowbridge Future have litter picking equipment that they regular lend to local residents groups free of charge.

The Caenhill Countryside Centre is set in mid Wiltshire on a 70 acre farm which is run as a rural learning centre. It delivers courses and workshops to involve children and young people in rural outside learning, the rural food chain, countryside crafts and skills. We are supported by a team of volunteers willing to develop the farm into a suitable environment for learning and pass on skills to young people. We are helped by help for heroes and groups that use the farm to improve their members well-being. Our motto touching hearts and living souls sums up the special atmosphere at the farm . We recycle materials for building, feed for animals and the volunteers and forage for items that will benefit the young people and the animals. We are developing links with as many local interest groups and skills providers as we can to enable the Centre to be a thriving and useful hub. Our courses so far have included, agriculture, horticulture, bee keeping, the local food chain, animal management, rural foods, field detectives, foraging, puddling and more. Our latest work is around renovate buildings, repairing workspaces, building rescue animal area, a craft studio, developing a memory woodland, planting crop areas making it a sustainable and usable project.

FoodCycle community meals bring people together for good food and conversation. We serve up free, wholesome meals made from food that would have gone to waste. Our meals are prepared by volunteers and open to everyone. But FoodCycle is about more than food – we create a cycle of positive change. Reducing food waste. Tackling loneliness. Supporting mental health. Encouraging healthy eating and sustainable living. Together we’re nourishing communities – plate by plate, chat by chat.