Volunteering

Our farm owes so much to all of its fantastic staff & volunteers. They play a vital part in carrying out a huge array of tasks and making the farm wonderful. We’d like to thank each and every one of them for their hard work and commitment.

Current Volunteer Opportunities...

• Farmyard Volunteers: Helping out with the daily animal duties and keeping our alpacas, sheep, pigs and chickens happy and healthy is incredibly rewarding.

• Equine Volunteers: Helping out in our riding school, tacking up horses and leading horses in the school.

• Work experience placements: We offer placements to students working towards animal related qualifications etc.

PLEASE NOTE: As a working yard, we require previous equine experience to work with our horses in the riding school and all volunteers must be aged 14 or over.

Please fill in the form to register your interest for a voluntary role and a member of our team will get back to you.

Veterinary students - AHEMS placements

We offer AHEMS placements to vet students looking to gain animal husbandry experience with either our horses and donkeys, or our alpacas and other farm animals. We offer a minimum of a 2 week placement, usually running Thursday to Thursday. Please fill in the form to register your interest and a member of our team will get back to you.

We have a range of roles throughout the business and, as employers we have three main focuses for our team.

Opportunity to learn

Whether it's great sandwich making in our Chilli Bean Cafe or learning how to cut alpaca toenails during our husbandry sessions, at Charnwood Forest Alpacas there's always something new to master.  When we say training we mean finding the most valuable, efficient and enjoyable ways to help you get exactly what you want out of work.

Feel valued

Everyone likes to feel that they are appreciated for their work, with regular contact and support we like to help mould our employees through positive encouragement and the odd treat too!

Have fun!

If you have visited our farm one thing we hope you noticed was how much we all love working here! We have learned that the only way to provide the best welcome for our visitors is to provide the best working environment for our team!

We always recruit the most outgoing, fun people to join our family and our priority is to build a team who works well together in all situations.