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Join our family and dogs in rural Cambridgeshire

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The experience

Cheerful and reliable dog lovers welcome! You will help me with daily tasks of keeping the house clean & tidy, general maintenance, dog care, basic gardening. Opportunities to help my husband on diy projects.
We would like to tidy up/landscape the garden so experience here would be helpful. Routine tasks - weeding, hedge trimming & lawn mowing.Other tasks vary seasonally.
You will need to be fit and active; we go for 2 dog walks every day.

What you offer

25 hours of help per week

Painting & Decorating: Help with painting or decorating the property facilities.

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

Gardening: Help grow plants and cultivate gardens

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

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.

Bikes at your disposal: You can use our bikes any time you want.

Requirements

Intermediate English

Over 19 years old

Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers

What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

Program Details

You will live as part of our family. We offer a comfortable room with en suite shower and toilet (single bed, twin beds or large double bed, depending on needs)
We prepare & eat our meals together, breakfast is cereal/toast, lunch a light meal such as soup/sandwiches and we eat our main meal together in the evening. If you are not happy to fit in with this routine then we are not the best hosts for you!
We eat meat, but happily cater for vegetarians. Please let me know about any dietary needs or preferences when you first contact me . We enjoy sampling foods from other countries so you will always be welcome to share your favourite dishes with us and assist in daily meal preparation.
We expect people to participate as family members, helping prepare and clear up after meals, laying the table, generally keeping the house clean and tidy and assisting with whatever needs doing on the day.

Activities & Shift

Next availability 24 August - 10/11 September
We generally ask for 5 hours a day, 5 days per week. Meal preparation and clearing up is not included in this as we all have to eat and these are normal parts of everyone's daily life. The day starts with breakfast around 8 am and all activities are interspersed with plenty of tea and coffee breaks.
Generally we expect 3- 4 hours in the morning and the other 1-2 in the afternoon. We try to be as flexible as possible and hope you will be too.
Days off are generally Saturday and Sunday (very occasionally we may ask you to change these if one of us needs to do something on one of these weekend days)

Rules

We are a non smoking household and only accept non smokers. Please do not apply if you use drugs or consume excessive quantities of alcohol.
We will not permit you to bring people we do not know into our house.