Ilkley Community Enterprise

Who we are

Ilkley Community Enterprise Ltd is an innovative charity and award-winning social enterprise based in West Yorkshire. We have grown rapidly since our establishment in 2013 and continue to expand our services and activities. Our mission is to help people, particularly people with a learning disability, the elderly and others with additional support needs, to lead independent, healthy and fulfilled lives. We think and act ‘outside the box’ continuously developing and innovating our activities to help positively change the lives of the people we serve.

Our success has been recognised nationally e.g. we have featured in The Guardian and on the BBC, we have won many local and regional awards and the quality of our home-based care is rated Outstanding by the Care Quality Commission.

Operating as a social enterprise, we own and run a number of businesses and services.

• Outside the Box (OTB) community café, a thriving café and community hub that provides work experience, training and support for people with learning disabilities;

• OTB Choices providing workshops, courses and activities for young people and adults with learning disabilities including arts, drama, music, printing, health, wellbeing, independent living; and
• Carers and Companions a domiciliary care company with an excellent reputation for providing the highest quality of home and community-based support to elderly people and people with a physical and/or learning disability.

Being on our team you will have: varied and highly rewarding work; excellent training and  career development opportunities; competitive pay and generous employee benefits with discounts at our community café; great colleagues; and a chance to part of a dynamic and expanding organisation.