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Location: Brightside Park, Aust, BS35 4BL 
Hours: 37.5 Hours Per Week 
Salary: £37,000 
Working pattern: Over 5 Days, including weekends on rotation 

Help us create something extraordinary 

Gympanzees is creating the UK’s first fully inclusive leisure, exercise and play centre for disabled children and young people aged 0–25 and their families. 

Our new 14-acre centre in South Gloucestershire will bring together accessible activity spaces, outdoor play, a café, shop and much more – all designed around the needs of the families we support. 

We’re looking for an experienced, hands-on Café Manager to help us bring our café to life. 

This isn’t simply about running a successful café. It’s about creating a welcoming, accessible space where families feel understood, included and comfortable being themselves. 

What you’ll be doing 

You’ll lead the development and day-to-day operation of our café, helping establish everything from the team and operating procedures to menus, stock management and customer experience. This is a genuinely hands-on role. Alongside leading the café, you’ll regularly prepare and cook food, support the team during busy service periods and help ensure everything leaving the kitchen meets our standards. 

You’ll be responsible for: 

  • Leading, developing and supporting an inclusive café team. 
  • Preparing, cooking and presenting a range of café meals, snacks and refreshments, working directly alongside the café team. 
  • Delivering excellent food safety, hygiene and allergen management. 
  • Managing rotas, stock, suppliers, costs and commercial performance. 
  • Helping develop menus, pricing and products that meet visitor needs. 
  • Creating a café experience that responds to disability, sensory needs and communication differences. 
  • Working closely with the Centre Manager to build a collaborative, joined-up team, ensuring the café operates as an integral part of the wider Gympanzees Centre. 
  • Undertaking scheduled Duty Manager shifts, taking responsibility for overseeing the safe and effective operation of the wider Centre, beyond the café. 

You’ll be a visible, hands-on leader who is just as comfortable supporting the team during a busy service as you are reviewing performance or developing new processes. 

Who we’re looking for 

We’re looking for someone who brings: 

  • Experience managing or supervising a café, catering or hospitality operation. 
  • Practical experience of preparing and cooking food in a café, catering or similar food-service environment, with the confidence to undertake these duties as part of the daily operation. 
  • Strong food safety and allergen management knowledge. 
  • Experience leading, coaching and supporting a team. 
  • The confidence and leadership skills to take responsibility for wider Centre operations during Duty Manager shifts, while building positive working relationships across different teams. 
  • Good commercial awareness, including budgets, stock control and costs. 
  • A practical, organised approach and excellent customer service skills. 
  • A genuine commitment to accessibility, inclusion and the Gympanzees mission. 

A Level 3 Food Safety in Catering qualification, or willingness to obtain one within an agreed period, would be advantageous. 

Experience working in an inclusive environment or helping launch a new hospitality operation would also be welcome but isn’t essential. 

What you’ll get 

  • Generous annual leave and wellbeing allowance: 33 days’ paid leave (full-time equivalent), comprising 22 days’ annual leave, 8 bank holidays and 3 flexible wellbeing and caring days. These flexible days can be used for emergency caring responsibilities, essential health and wellbeing needs, or simply added to your annual leave 
  • Your birthday off: An additional paid day off to celebrate your birthday, because that day is all about you!  
  • Healthcare cash plan: Helping you with the cost of everyday healthcare 
  • Employee Assistance Programme: Confidential support for your mental health, wellbeing and everyday challenges 
  • Training and development: Opportunities to build your skills, develop professionally and grow with Gympanzees 
  • Sick pay and company pension: Supporting your financial wellbeing and security 
  • Gympanzees family benefit: Access to a preferential staff rate for your family at our permanent Centre 

We want Gympanzees to be for everyone 

We’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive team and actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, particularly Disabled people, people from ethnic minority backgrounds and LGBTQ+ people. 

As a Disability Confident Employer, we guarantee an interview to applicants who meet the essential criteria in line with our scheme commitments.  

Ready to apply? Click below!

If you need a reasonable adjustment or another way to access or complete the application process, please contact Helen Burclaff (HR Manager) recruitment@gympanzees.org  

The successful applicant will be required to complete the appropriate safer recruitment and pre-employment checks for the role. 

Apply here
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Location: Brightside Park, Aust, BS35 4BL 
Hours: Various – Contracted and Casual 
Hourly rate: £14.00 per hour 
Working pattern: Various hours/days per week 

Help us make exercise genuinely accessible

Gympanzees is creating the UK’s first fully inclusive leisure, exercise and play centre for disabled children and young people and their families. 

Based at our new 14-acre centre in South Gloucestershire, we’re looking for Gym Navigators to help make our inclusive gym a safe, welcoming and empowering place for the people who use it.  

This isn’t your typical gym-floor role. 

You’ll support disabled children and young people and their families, with opportunities to support adults as our service develops. Helping them access equipment and physical activity safely, confidently and at their own pace. You’ll adapt your communication and practical support to the individual, encourage independence and help create positive experiences of movement and exercise.

What you’ll be doing You’ll be a visible and supportive presence in the gym, helping people use equipment safely and appropriately, adapting your approach for different physical, learning, sensory and communication needs. 

You’ll also help keep the gym safe, organised and ready for use, complete routine checks, report equipment or safety concerns and work closely with colleagues across the Centre.

Who we’re looking for 

You don’t need to arrive knowing everything. 

We’re looking for someone who is warm, patient, encouraging and genuinely committed to inclusion. You’ll have experience of supporting disabled children, young people and/or adults – whether through paid work, volunteering or relevant lived experience – and understand that good support looks different for different people. 

You’ll be comfortable adapting your communication and approach, working as part of a team, following safety procedures and recognising when something sits outside your own knowledge or competence.

A Level 2 Fitness Instructor qualification is desirable, but it isn’t essential when you join us. If you don’t already hold it, Gympanzees will fund your Level 2 Fitness Instructor training as part of your development in the role. We’re looking for the right person, with the right values, experience and approach – we’ll support you to build the technical knowledge and qualification you need. 

You’ll also receive role-specific training and development to help you build your knowledge and confidence in inclusive and adaptive exercise. 

What you’ll get 

You’ll be joining Gympanzees at a really exciting time – helping shape a brand-new service before the doors even open. 

  • Generous annual leave and wellbeing allowance: 33 days’ paid leave (full-time equivalent), comprising 22 days’ annual leave, 8 bank holidays and 3 flexible wellbeing and caring days. These flexible days can be used for emergency caring responsibilities, essential health and wellbeing needs, or simply added to your annual leave 
  • Your birthday off: An additional paid day off to celebrate your birthday, because that day is all about you!  
  • Healthcare cash plan: Helping you with the cost of everyday healthcare 
  • Employee Assistance Programme: Confidential support for your mental health, wellbeing and everyday challenges 
  • Training and development: Opportunities to build your skills, develop professionally and grow with Gympanzees 
  • Sick pay and company pension: Supporting your financial wellbeing and security 
  • Gympanzees family benefit: Access to a preferential staff rate for your family at our permanent Centre

We want Gympanzees to be for everyone 

We’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive team and actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, particularly Disabled people, people from ethnic minority backgrounds and LGBTQ+ people. 

As a Disability Confident Employer, we guarantee an interview to applicants who meet the essential criteria in line with our scheme commitments.  

Ready to apply? Click the links below.

If you need a reasonable adjustment or another way to access or complete the application process, please contact Helen Burclaff (HR Manager) recruitment@gympanzees.org  

The successful applicant will be required to complete the appropriate safer recruitment and pre-employment checks for the role. 

Read the full job description here
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We’re recruiting: Leisure Trustee 

Location: Aust, South Gloucestershire – with virtual meeting options 
Commitment: Board meetings every 6-8 weeks, plus committee responsibilities 
Term: 2 Years, renewable  
Remuneration: Voluntary, unpaid 

Help us bring something extraordinary to life 

Gympanzees is creating the UK’s first fully inclusive exercise, play and leisure centre for disabled and neurodivergent children and young people aged 0–25, and their families. 

Our new Centre in South Gloucestershire is due to open in Spring 2027. As we prepare to welcome families, we’re strengthening our Board of Trustees to ensure our new Centre delivers an exceptional, accessible and sustainable leisure experience. 

We’re looking for an experienced Leisure Trustee to join our Board, bringing senior leisure-sector expertise and strategic advice to our Centre Manager and leadership team. 

The opportunity 

This is a strategic, board-level role where your experience will help shape how Gympanzees operates as a leisure destination. 

Before the Centre opens, you’ll help us test our operating model, pricing, staffing plans and visitor experience against what works in the leisure sector. 

Once open, you’ll provide independent advice, constructive challenge and ongoing guidance, helping our Board understand performance, manage risks and make informed decisions. 

You’ll also act as an important link between the Board and our Leisure Committee, ensuring specialist industry expertise informs our strategy. 

This isn’t a hands-on Centre management role. You’ll work alongside our Centre Manager and senior leadership team, providing the strategic insight and experience needed to support a successful launch and sustainable operation. 

What you’ll be doing 

  • Advising on our operating model, membership and pricing strategy, staffing structure and customer experience. 
  • Reviewing assumptions around visitor capacity, utilisation and commercial income. 
  • Supporting the Centre Manager with strategic advice as we prepare to open. 
  • Providing Board-level oversight of the Leisure Committee and its recommendations.
  • Helping the Board interpret operational performance, income and visitor data. 
  • Identifying relevant leisure-sector best practice, innovation, risks and opportunities. 
  • Contributing to the wider governance, strategy and stewardship of Gympanzees as a Trustee.

Who we’re looking for 

We’re looking for someone with significant senior leadership experience in the leisure sector, perhaps as a CEO, Managing Director, COO or equivalent. 

You’ll bring: 

  • Experience leading a leisure centre, health club group, leisure service or similar visitor-facing operation. 
  • Strong commercial and operational understanding, including pricing, staffing, health and safety and customer experience. 
  • The ability to provide independent advice and constructive challenge at Board level. 
  • Experience interpreting operational performance and helping organisations improve. 
  • A genuine commitment to accessibility and inclusion. 
  • The confidence to support and advise a Centre Manager opening a new kind of facility.

Experience within a multi-site leisure organisation would be particularly welcome, but isn’t essential.  You don’t need previous experience in the disability sector. We’ll support you to develop that understanding. 

Why join Gympanzees? 

This is a unique opportunity to help shape the operational foundations of a groundbreaking new Centre at a pivotal moment in its development. 

You’ll join a passionate, collaborative Board and receive a full induction, including access to our governance documents, business plan and relevant training. 

Your expertise will help us create a safe, welcoming and sustainable leisure experience that removes barriers for disabled children, young people and their families. 

We want Gympanzees to be for everyone 

We’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive team and actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, particularly Disabled people, people from ethnic minority backgrounds and LGBTQ+ people. 

We’re happy to make reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to ensure everyone has a fair opportunity to apply. 

How to apply 

Please send your CV and a covering letter outlining your relevant experience, your interest in the role and why you would like to become a Trustee of Gympanzees to: 

steph@gympanzees.org

Closing date: Thursday 5th November 2026 

If you need a reasonable adjustment or another way to access or complete the application process, please contact Helen Burclaff (HR Manager) recruitment@gympanzees.org  

Appointment will be subject to appropriate trustee eligibility, safeguarding and pre-appointment checks. 

View the full role description here

Location: Aust, South Gloucestershire – with virtual meeting options 
Commitment: Board meetings every 6-8 weeks, plus committee responsibilities 
Term: 2 Years, renewable  
Remuneration: Voluntary, unpaid 

Help us build the technology behind something extraordinary 

Gympanzees is creating the UK’s first fully inclusive exercise, play and leisure centre for disabled and neurodivergent children and young people aged 0–25, and their families. 

Our new Centre in South Gloucestershire is due to open in Spring 2027. As we prepare to welcome families, we’re strengthening our Board of Trustees to ensure our technology, systems and digital services are ready to support a busy, inclusive and accessible Centre. 

We’re looking for an experienced IT & Technology Trustee to join our Board, bringing strategic technology leadership and expert advice to our CEO, COO and senior leadership team. 

The opportunity 

This is a strategic, board-level role where your expertise will help shape how technology supports Gympanzees, our teams and the families who use our services. 

You’ll provide independent advice, constructive challenge and specialist insight into our technology strategy, systems integration, data protection and digital accessibility. 

Before the Centre opens, you’ll help us make important decisions about our booking system and how it connects with our existing finance, fundraising and operational platforms. 

Once open, you’ll provide ongoing strategic guidance, helping us manage technology risks, improve efficiency and identify opportunities to use digital tools and AI responsibly. 

This isn’t a hands-on IT support role. You’ll work alongside our senior leadership team and outsourced IT provider, helping ensure our technology decisions are practical, secure and aligned with our charitable mission. 

What you’ll be doing 

  • Advising on the selection and integration of our new booking system. 
  • Helping shape our technology roadmap, budgets and system integration priorities. 
  • Providing strategic oversight of cybersecurity, data protection and information security risks. 
  • Championing digital accessibility across our systems and family-facing services. 
  • Identifying opportunities for automation, improved reporting and more effective use of data. 
  • Advising on emerging technology, including the responsible use of AI. 
  • Contributing to the wider governance, strategy and stewardship of Gympanzees as a Trustee. 

Who we’re looking for 

We’re looking for someone with significant senior-level experience in IT, technology or digital leadership, perhaps as a CTO, IT Director, Head of Technology or equivalent. 

You’ll bring: 

  • Experience leading technology strategy within an organisation. 
  • Strong understanding of systems integration, digital transformation and cloud-based platforms. 
  • Knowledge of cybersecurity, data protection and information security. 
  • The ability to provide constructive challenge and communicate complex technical issues at Board level. 
  • An appreciation of how accessible technology can improve experiences for disabled and neurodivergent people. 
  • A commitment to the values and mission of Gympanzees. 

Experience within a charity, SME or membership organisation would be particularly welcome, but isn’t essential. 

You don’t need previous experience in the disability sector. We’ll support you to develop that understanding. 

Why join Gympanzees? 

This is a unique opportunity to help shape the digital foundations of a groundbreaking new Centre at a pivotal moment in its development. 

You’ll join a passionate, collaborative Board and receive a full induction, including access to our governance documents, business plan and relevant training. 

Your expertise will help us create technology that makes life easier for our teams and removes barriers for the families we support. 

We want Gympanzees to be for everyone 

We’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive team and actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, particularly Disabled people, people from ethnic minority backgrounds and LGBTQ+ people. 

We’re happy to make reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to ensure everyone has a fair opportunity to apply. 

How to apply 

Please send your CV and a covering letter outlining your relevant experience, your interest in the role and why you would like to become a Trustee of Gympanzees to: 

steph@gympanzees.org

Closing date: Thursday 5th November 2026 

If you need a reasonable adjustment or another way to access or complete the application process, please contact Helen Burclaff (HR Manager) recruitment@gympanzees.org  

Appointment will be subject to appropriate trustee eligibility, safeguarding and pre-appointment checks.

View the full role description here

Location: Aust, South Gloucestershire – with virtual meeting options 
Commitment: Board meetings every 6-8 weeks, plus committee responsibilities 
Term: 2 Years, renewable  
Remuneration: Voluntary, unpaid 

Help us put safeguarding at the heart of something extraordinary 

Gympanzees is creating the UK’s first fully inclusive exercise, play and leisure centre for disabled and neurodivergent children and young people aged 0–25, and their families. 

Our new Centre in South Gloucestershire is due to open in Spring 2027. As we prepare to welcome thousands of families, we’re strengthening our Board of Trustees to ensure safeguarding, health and safety, and risk management remain central to everything we do. 

We’re looking for an experienced Safeguarding Trustee to join our Board and chair our Safeguarding, Health & Safety and Risk Committee. 

The opportunity 

This is a strategic, board-level role where your expertise will help shape a safe, inclusive environment for the children, young people and families we support. 

You’ll provide independent scrutiny, constructive challenge and specialist advice, working closely with our Designated Safeguarding Lead and Deputy DSLs. 

Before the Centre opens, you’ll help ensure our safeguarding arrangements, policies, training and procedures are ready for a significantly larger operation. 

Once open, you’ll provide ongoing oversight, ensuring safeguarding remains a meaningful priority at Board level. 

What you’ll be doing 

  • Chairing the Safeguarding, Health & Safety and Risk Committee. 
  • Providing independent oversight of safeguarding arrangements and safer recruitment practices. 
  • Supporting and constructively challenging senior leaders on safeguarding, health and safety, and risk. 
  • Helping ensure appropriate safeguarding reporting, escalation and learning from incidents. 
  • Providing specialist advice on complex safeguarding matters when required. 
  • Contributing to the wider governance, strategy and stewardship of Gympanzees as a Trustee. 

Who we’re looking for 

We’re looking for someone with significant senior-level safeguarding experience, potentially gained within education, health, social care, policing or the disability or youth sector. 

You’ll bring: 

  • Strong knowledge of safeguarding legislation, statutory guidance and best practice. 
  • The confidence to provide independent scrutiny and constructive challenge. 
  • Experience of, or the ability to, chair a committee and contribute effectively at Board level. 
  • Sound judgement, including an understanding of the distinction between governance oversight and operational safeguarding. 
  • A commitment to inclusion and improving opportunities for disabled and neurodivergent children and young people. 

Experience supporting disabled and neurodivergent communities would be particularly welcome, although a willingness to develop this understanding is equally valued. 

Why join Gympanzees? 

This is a unique opportunity to help shape the safeguarding culture of a groundbreaking new Centre at a pivotal moment in its development. 

You’ll join a passionate, collaborative Board and receive a full induction, including access to relevant governance documents, safeguarding policies and training. 

Your expertise will help ensure that the safety, dignity and wellbeing of the people we support remain at the heart of Gympanzees as we grow. 

We want Gympanzees to be for everyone 

We’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive team and actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, particularly Disabled people, people from ethnic minority backgrounds and LGBTQ+ people. 

We’re happy to make reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to ensure everyone has a fair opportunity to apply. 

How to apply 

Please send your CV and a covering letter outlining your relevant experience, your interest in the role and why you would like to become a Trustee of Gympanzees to: 

steph@gympanzees.org

Closing date: Thursday 5th November 2026 

Read the full role description:

If you need a reasonable adjustment or another way to access or complete the application process, please contact Helen Burclaff (HR Manager) recruitment@gympanzees.org  

Appointment will be subject to appropriate trustee eligibility, safeguarding and pre-appointment checks.

View the full role description here

Location: Aust, South Gloucestershire – with virtual meeting options 
Commitment: Board meetings every 6-8 weeks, plus committee responsibilities 
Term: 2 Years, renewable  
Remuneration: Voluntary, unpaid 

Help us put safeguarding at the heart of something extraordinary 

Gympanzees is creating the UK’s first fully inclusive exercise, play and leisure centre for disabled and neurodivergent children and young people aged 0–25, and their families. 

Our new Centre in South Gloucestershire is due to open in Spring 2027. As we prepare to welcome thousands of families, we’re strengthening our Board of Trustees to ensure safeguarding, health and safety, and risk management remain central to everything we do. 

We’re looking for an experienced Safeguarding Trustee to join our Board and chair our Safeguarding, Health & Safety and Risk Committee. 

The opportunity 

This is a strategic, board-level role where your expertise will help shape a safe, inclusive environment for the children, young people and families we support. 

You’ll provide independent scrutiny, constructive challenge and specialist advice, working closely with our Designated Safeguarding Lead and Deputy DSLs. 

Before the Centre opens, you’ll help ensure our safeguarding arrangements, policies, training and procedures are ready for a significantly larger operation. 

Once open, you’ll provide ongoing oversight, ensuring safeguarding remains a meaningful priority at Board level. 

What you’ll be doing 

  • Chairing the Safeguarding, Health & Safety and Risk Committee. 
  • Providing independent oversight of safeguarding arrangements and safer recruitment practices. 
  • Supporting and constructively challenging senior leaders on safeguarding, health and safety, and risk. 
  • Helping ensure appropriate safeguarding reporting, escalation and learning from incidents. 
  • Providing specialist advice on complex safeguarding matters when required. 
  • Contributing to the wider governance, strategy and stewardship of Gympanzees as a Trustee. 

Who we’re looking for 

We’re looking for someone with significant senior-level safeguarding experience, potentially gained within education, health, social care, policing or the disability or youth sector. 

You’ll bring: 

  • Strong knowledge of safeguarding legislation, statutory guidance and best practice. 
  • The confidence to provide independent scrutiny and constructive challenge. 
  • Experience of, or the ability to, chair a committee and contribute effectively at Board level. 
  • Sound judgement, including an understanding of the distinction between governance oversight and operational safeguarding. 
  • A commitment to inclusion and improving opportunities for disabled and neurodivergent children and young people. 

Experience supporting disabled and neurodivergent communities would be particularly welcome, although a willingness to develop this understanding is equally valued. 

Why join Gympanzees? 

This is a unique opportunity to help shape the safeguarding culture of a groundbreaking new Centre at a pivotal moment in its development. 

You’ll join a passionate, collaborative Board and receive a full induction, including access to relevant governance documents, safeguarding policies and training. 

Your expertise will help ensure that the safety, dignity and wellbeing of the people we support remain at the heart of Gympanzees as we grow. 

We want Gympanzees to be for everyone 

We’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive team and actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, particularly Disabled people, people from ethnic minority backgrounds and LGBTQ+ people. 

We’re happy to make reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to ensure everyone has a fair opportunity to apply. 

How to apply 

Please send your CV and a covering letter outlining your relevant experience, your interest in the role and why you would like to become a Trustee of Gympanzees to: 

steph@gympanzees.org

Closing date: Thursday 5th November 2026 

Read the full role description:

If you need a reasonable adjustment or another way to access or complete the application process, please contact Helen Burclaff (HR Manager) recruitment@gympanzees.org  

Appointment will be subject to appropriate trustee eligibility, safeguarding and pre-appointment checks.

View the full role description here
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