Care assistant, nights
[Example] Riverside Care Home — Mill Lane
Waking night shifts on a rota. Training provided; a caring attitude matters more than a certificate.
Work that’s walking distance from where you already live.
Townwork is the job board for our town. Local employers post what they actually need — a driver, a line cook, a bookkeeper, a farm hand for the season — and you apply straight from the page with your email. No account to make, no recruiter in the middle, no listings for jobs two counties over.
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6 postings liveShop assistant, weekends
[Example] Corner Stores — Station Road
Saturday and Sunday shifts in a small village shop. Serving, stocking, and opening up.
Bookkeeper, two days a week
[Example] Fenwick Accountancy — Above the post office
Two days a week keeping small local businesses' books straight. Flexible on which days.
Seasonal farm hand
[Example] Meadow Lane Farm — Two miles out on the north road
Six to eight weeks of harvest work. Early starts, outdoor work, no experience needed.
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Care assistant, nights
[Example] Riverside Care Home — Mill Lane
[£ per hour]
Shop assistant, weekends
[Example] Corner Stores — Station Road
[£ per hour]
Bookkeeper, two days a week
[Example] Fenwick Accountancy — Above the post office
[£ per hour]
Seasonal farm hand
[Example] Meadow Lane Farm — Two miles out on the north road
[£ per hour]
Line cook, evenings
[Example] The Bell — High Street
[£ per hour]
Delivery driver (van provided)
[Example] Harlow & Sons, builders' merchant — Town centre yard
[£ per hour]
How this board works
Step one
Employers post
A local business fills in the form — the role, the hours, roughly what it pays, and the email applications should go to. It takes about three minutes and costs nothing.
Step two
The board owner reads it
Nothing appears on the site until a real person has looked at it. That keeps out the staffing agencies, the work-from-home schemes and the listings that were copied from somewhere else.
Step three
You apply by email
Find something that fits, fill in your name, email and a short note, and it lands in the employer’s inbox. No account, no CV upload, no waiting on a portal.
For employers
Hiring in a small town is different from hiring in a city. You are not sorting through four hundred applications from strangers — you are looking for the person who already lives two streets over and can start on Monday. A town job board should work the same way.
Posting is free and there is no account to create. Write the role the way you would explain it to a neighbour: what the day looks like, which hours, whether a licence or a certificate is needed, and who to contact. Plain descriptions get better applicants than corporate ones.
Applications arrive in your own inbox, so you keep the conversation. You can reply, ask for a reference, or invite someone in for a chat the same day. When the role is filled, tell the board owner and the posting comes down — no ghost listings left hanging for months.
Right now the board is carrying work in Healthcare, Retail, Office & Admin and more.
If you are not sure how to word a posting, write it badly and send it anyway. The board owner will tidy the phrasing before it goes live rather than turn away a genuine local job.
Post a job now — it goes up as soon as it has been read.