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General help, DIY, organising interest in mechanics useful.

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The experience

We've just returned from a long stay away.
The house and grounds are a mess. Lot's to do, grass is knee high, garage is half roofed, outbuildings need sorting.
We need gardening cleaning, some simple house repairs and decoration, some sorting and organising packing, help with delivering to charity shops ,recycling centres.

What you offer

25 hours of help per week

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

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.

Get free drinks or beverages.: Drink up! Get free and tasty drinks for yourself.

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

Requirements

Fluent English

Over 18 years old

Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers

What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

Program Details

We are a homestay in rural countryside.
We offer a bedroom in the house, share of bathroom and all other facilities.
We offer 3 meals per day, including rest days.
Light breakfast.
2 course lunch, soup or salad depending on time of year, followed by yoghurt and fresh fruit.
2 course evening meal.
We make our own bread.
We make our own cakes.
We make our own cookies.
We make yoghurts to which we add fruit syrup made from berries in the garden .
We brew our own English style beer.

Activities & Shift

We normally do 2 hours after breakfast have a 1 or 2 hour lunch break and then 3 hours in the afternoon.
This is flexible but everyone needs to agree to times that permit working together.

Rules

We don't offer hotel, waitress service, we live together cook and clear up together and work together.
We try to be as green as possible. We recycle, re-use, repurpose as a way of life.
We are happy to offer lifts to town when we are going.
It's a small market town with a military museum and a medieval quarter.
We host to meet people, we are not looking for "trap door spider" type people.