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Help our registered charity with retreats and community events

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L'expérience

We are a registered charity, housed in a beautiful English medieval manor with an ancient courtyard and a magnificent timbered Great Hall, dating from the 13th century. It is situated in extensive grounds where deer roam freely and where squirrels run up and down trees.
Over the past 40 years the charity has run a range of group activities including retreats and other spiritual events, lectures, concerts, yoga classes, creative workshops, etc.

Ce que vous offrez

25 heures d'aide par semaine

Aide en cuisine: Aider à préparer, finaliser et servir les repas.

Nettoyage: Aider à nettoyer la cuisine, les chambres, les salles de bain et les espaces communs.

Entretien ménager: Aider à changer les draps et à l'entretien ménager général.

Réception: Aider aux enregistrements, départs et assistance aux clients.

Ce que vous recevez

2 jours de congé par semaine

Chambre privée: Vous aurez un lit dans une chambre privée. En d'autres termes, une chambre rien que pour vous.

Petit-déjeuner: Vous avez droit à un petit-déjeuner gratuit, tous les jours de votre séjour.

Déjeuner: Vous avez droit à un déjeuner gratuit, tous les jours de votre séjour.

Dîner: Vous avez droit à un dîner gratuit, tous les jours de votre séjour.

Laverie Gratuite: Vous pouvez utiliser notre buanderie librement.

Vélos à votre disposition: Vous pouvez utiliser nos vélos quand vous le souhaitez.

Accès Internet Basique: Internet à vitesse basique pour travailler à distance

Exigences

Intermédiaire Anglais

Entre 25 et 60 ans

Accueille les volontaires solo, les couples et les partenaires de volontaires

Assurance voyage

Ce qui n'est pas inclus

Vols, assurance voyage, transport interne et visa

Détails du programme

We are currently recruiting volunteers to join and to help us run activities (see the calendar to see if we are currently recruiting).
We hold retreats, workshops, and run a weekly community cafe intended to create an exchange between the Abbey charity and the local community.
As a volunteer, you will play a crucial role in creating a welcoming and comfortable environment for our guests and visitors and you will greatly benefit from the interactions with our retreat visitors who come from all ways of life. Previous volunteers have always commented that they were able to develop and improve their English speaking skills and they find the cultural exchange they get here extremely enriching.

You will have your own unique room in this ancient building. We also have one twin room suitable for friends (or couples) traveling together. The rooms are not en-suite but there are showers and toilets nearby. The food provided is vegetarian.

Our house is a quiet and peaceful place, well suited for rest, reflection and respectful communication. It isn't a place for late night parties, illegal drugs and a city lifestyle -- but if you like being surrounded by nature and meeting new people from different cultures as well as living and working together in a friendly and beautiful environment, then this is the place to be. You will have a lot of freedom and time for yourself as long as the work is done and the house rules are respected.

Activités et horaires

Most of the help is very straight forward and does not require special skills: we mainly need help to keep the place clean and tidy and to welcome guests and visitors. We are particularly interested in volunteers with housekeeping and hospitality experience, customer service skills, or volunteers able to help for different tasks as ground maintenance, gardening, cooking, cleaning, DIY and so on. If you have a prior interest in mindfulness and/or meditation, we would be very interested if you would like to share your practice.

Your days off may not be the same from one week to another and you don't necessarily have consecutive days off. You will always work on Saturdays as we are running our weekly cafe and you may also sometimes work on Sundays depending on our activities, but you will have time off each week. The Abbey manager is very cautious about providing the best balance possible between your work and your free time. Each Monday, you will have your weekly schedule.

After induction and training we like to get our volunteers straight into action. After training you would typically be expected to:
Assist with cleaning, ironing and preparing the Abbey for our guests
Give a hand in the kitchen and serve food to our guests and clients
Welcome guests and visitors.





Règles

We expect volunteers to help 25 hours per week. You must be able to help flexibly, both independently and as part of a group, and without us having to chase you. Please note that we are expecting from our volunteers to help with whatever is needed rather than what they want to do. We expect volunteers to be responsible, proactive, mature and respectful.

As an international volunteer, please note that you can only volunteer for up to 30 days for a registered charity in the UK. You must have a good understanding of spoken English as you will have a lot of interactions with guests and visitors.

For UK nationals or people with the settled status, you can stay at the Abbey for up to 3 months.

We will need references if you don't have any reviews and an identity check (passport and visa) when you arrive. Please note that your stay is subject to a one week trial.