Our strategy
We have an ambitious goal to have a thriving network of 35 Youth Zones supporting 150,000 young people by 2035. Read our strategy to see how we’re working to achieve this.
Read our Strategy for 2024-27
Join us and make a difference to young lives every day.
Here you’ll find opportunities at OnSide and across the national Network of Youth Zones.
All live vacancies are listed here, and new positions are added frequently, so it’s always worth checking back!
Learn more about what it’s like to work at OnSide.
We are OnSide, a national charity that believes all young people should have the opportunity to discover their passion and their purpose.
Our vision is for every young person across the UK to be happy, healthy and able to thrive.
Our mission is to empower young people to lead positive, fulfilling lives by providing access to incredible spaces and excellent youth work, delivered by outstanding people, where they are needed the most.
Here you’ll learn about OnSide as an employer; what’s important to us and what it’s like to work at our charity. If you’d like to learn more about what we do, visit our About Us page.
Our strength as a charity comes from the diversity of our people. Our Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Group (EDI), FREDIE, with support from the Senior Leadership Team, is actively promoting and advancing diversity and inclusion, ensuring a culture where everyone can be themselves and thrive. Learn about how we are doing this by reading our Equity, Diversity and Inclusion commitment.
Equity, Diversity and Inclusion at OnSide
As an OnSide employee, you can benefit from training and development opportunities offered by our award-winning Talent Academy, which provides a bespoke training programme to meet the needs of the OnSide team. Recent training has covered unconscious bias, coaching, and safeguarding, to name a few.
Our values underpin all aspects of our charity. Our culture, how we work and what we do are driven by our five values.
Young people first. Young people are at the heart of everything we do inspiring and challenging us to deliver services that exceed their needs and challenge them to be the best they can be.
Respect. We act with honesty and integrity, celebrating diversity across the whole organisation and caring about each other, our young people and the Youth Zone environment.
Ambition. We are passionate and driven in taking on new challenges, embracing new ideas and exceeding our ambitions for young people, the Youth Zones and our local community.
Collaboration. We create and nurture strong, creative partnerships, working together to achieve better results and outcomes for young people.
Excellence. We encourage ourselves and each other to be the best we can be through continuous learning and improvement, and a focus on finding solutions.
We have an ambitious goal to have a thriving network of 35 Youth Zones supporting 150,000 young people by 2035. Read our strategy to see how we’re working to achieve this.
Read our Strategy for 2024-27We’re proud to have been changing young lives and creating opportunities since 2008. Read more about the difference we’re making for young people and their communities.
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