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Enjoy Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands and surrounding area

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The experience

Looking for Non-smokers/flexible, happy/honest, people/ happy to help with cleaning, housekeeping, light garden work/maintenance/technical minded/helping with our own pets for between 2-4 hours a day over 5days. In return we will strive to make your experience a happy one and and (bus. permitting) will show you around the immediate and surrounding area of Loch Ness home of 'Nessie'. Also hosting helpers working remotely have good wi-fi for this

What you offer

20 hours of help per week

Kitchen Hand: Help prepare, finish and serve meals.

Cleaning: Help clean the kitchen, bedrooms, bathrooms and common areas.

Housekeeping: Help with changing the bed linens and general housekeeping.

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.

Shared Dorm: You will have a bed in a shared room, which means you will share the same room with other travelers.

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.

Requirements

Fluent English

Between 18 and 35 years old

Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers

What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

Program Details

In a volunteer I expect them to be polite, good communication skills in both conveying and absorbing, honesty, flexibility, adaptability, sense of humour and a reasonable level of commitment. In return I am totally commited to my helpers, I am fair, direct and we do provide training into how we carry out the tasks and ask that these are followed. I take health and safetly for both my guests and helpers very seriously and again provide training for this, more on this can be found in our screening questions.
I will provide 3 meals a day Breakfast (cereals, toast, tea, coffee, Jams.Lunch - In the UK is a lighter meal in the UK and a lunch break is around 30 minutes, varied but typically british standard i.e. sandwiches, salads, savoury pies/quiches/pasta/wraps -It is not a full main course. Dinner - varied with beef, pork, fish, poultry, venison with Pasta/Rice/Potatoes/Fresh Vegetables in casseroles/sauces etc. We aim to provide a recognized mix of protein, fibre etc. On occasion I might provide fruit/desert items but this is not guaranteed or should be expected to form part of our arrangement. Anything above what I describe would be at your own expense. Sometimes I will join you for meals but not always and depending on how long a helper stays and also the time of year I will try and get you to see the immediate area and further afield which hopefully will make your experience a memorable one but I cannot guarantee this during May-September and any other public holiday periods.

Activities & Shift

The working day commences after breakfast and lasts between 2 -4 hours but this could be varied slightly depending on the amount of business and the tasks being carried out but generally the day would start at 10am and end by 2pm. It is possible that owing to the level of business Tasks for the Day might just take 1 hour and therefore to the vlunteers advantage however, it could be that the next day the tasks might take
4 hour 30 minutes and in that scenario we would expect the same flexibility we show in return. We are a small unit and we give flexibility and expect it back. The working week commences on a Sunday and ends on a Saturday and days off will be allocated according to when you start i.e. if you start after the week commences then your two days off will fall within the following week.
Out of season (Oct. - April) volunteers often enjoy much shorter hours and more days off but this is always subject to business levels. Applicants should note we are only able to provide accommodation for solo female travellers as this is sometimes shared and accommodation for couples.

Rules

The property is completely non-smoking (including e-cigarettes / vapes etc) and we do not allow the use of any kind of drugs nor do we allow parties or recommend socialising with guests. There are no communal gathering places at our property. We do not allow unauthorised persons into/onto our property nor can we accept helpers who might have pets
We expect Volunteers to arrive on the date agreed to start the following day and to leave on the morning of Detailed Date (unless by prior arrangement) and ofcourse to leave their room cleaned and prepared for the next volunteers.
We also expect any requests for speciffic time off to be made at the application stage and not on the day of arrival as we have other volunteers to consider