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Help with our Horse stunt team!

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The experience

We are no longer looking for volunteers for 2025 as all positions are now full.
Feel free to get in touch in the New Year if you are hoping to travel in Scotland during the Summer of 2026.

What you offer

32 hours of help per week

Animal Care: Help look after and take care of animals.

Building & Repairing: Help with a wide range of repairs or building.

Gardening: Help grow plants and cultivate gardens

What you get

2 days off per week

Private Room: You will have a bed in a private room. In other words, a room just for you.

Breakfast: You are entitled to a free breakfast, every day of your stay.

Lunch: You are entitled to a free lunch, every day of your stay.

Dinner: You are entitled to a free dinner, every day of your stay.

Free Laundry: You can use our laundry room freely.

Pick Up: We will pick you up when you arrive, and take you to our property.

Use our equipped kitchen: Feel free to use our kitchen and make your own delicious food.

Basic Internet Access: Basic speed internet for you to work remotely

Requirements

Intermediate English

Over 18 years old

Only hosts solo volunteers (doesn’t accept couples or partners)

What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

Program Details

When the calander is open we look for people to volunteer with us in exchange for food & board. We are an equine stunt teams, based in the Scottish borders, we have 5 full-time members (& 2 children) who live & work on the farm towards our passion(training animals). We look for enthusiastic volunteers to help us on our journey.

We look for volunteers during the Scottish Summer month only (May-September) Please contact us if you would like to volunteer during those months. Also please note that this is a very outdoorsey experience, where you will be working with animals. Please only apply if you have experience working outdoors & with horses. Thanks. (PS I cannot respond to everyone especially if you do not meet those requests, thank you for taking the time to read our profile)
We are an equestrian stunt team who have over the years exchanged volunteer work for food, board, travel opportunities (UK) and the chance to perform(groundcrew in costume) in live performance stunt shows. We also live as a community & aim to be as eco friendly as possible (constantly improving this). Volunteering with us is a great way to experience a different way of living in Scotland.

Activities & Shift

Daily animal care, feeding dogs, horses, chickens etc cleaning out stables.
Help with odd farm jobs like fixing fences, track repairs etc
Other jobs such as helping us train our animals, ground crew when we are jousting, trick riding & doing horse back archery.
Help us pack costumes & tack before heading off for weekend of performance. During a weekend away we will be camping & everyone takes on tasks for the duration.
Maintenance of communal areas, such as painting & repair work.
General cleaning of communal areas & washrooms. We are on a private water supply whoch is pumped up our steep hill, so we ask that people only shower once per week. (thats what we all do)

Rules

Have fun & be enthusiastic!
We like people to have a 1 week trial before committing to the rest of their stay. We like to make sure we are suited to each other to work happily together.
Full stay is to be arranged before hand, but after the first week we have a chat to ensure everyone is happy. I always suggest that you check out some other UK & Scottish hosts as well just incase our way of life dose not suit you.
Only apply if you have experience working(or volunteering) outdoors and with horses.