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General help at home, helping in the garden

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The experience

General help in maintaining our house and assisting with any ongoing new project, very often working outside.
Help doing the changeovers in our 1 bedroom Airbnb self-catering cabin, (Paid work).
The volunteers live in a cabin in our garden, which is fully fitted, cooker, fridge, toilet and shower.We provide food allowance money and you cook for yourselves, sometimes you will eat with the family.

What you offer

25 hours of help per week

Farming: Plant crops, sow seeds and help in outside tasks.

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.

Free Tours: We’ll take you on tours and rides around town. For free!

Free Hiking Tours: We’ll take you on excursions and hikes around town. For free!

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

Language lessons: Take free language classes at our place.

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

Fast Internet Access: High-speed internet for you to work remotely

Dedicated Workspace: Specific space for you to work remotely

Requirements

Intermediate English or Intermediate English

Between 20 and 40 years old

Only welcomes couples and partners (does not accept solo volunteers)

What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

Program Details

General help with mantaining our house and garden. Assisting with various comunity projects around the village.
Seasonal work in our small self catering cabin.
Helping Simon build a new foot path and wind break.
Some more complicated repair work , replacing the cladding on our cabin, training in the use of the appropriate tools will be given.
Gardening will depend on the time of the year. We have a small polytunnel.

Activities & Shift

Volunteers are xpected to work 5 hours per day, 5 days a week. Normal timing is from 10.00am to 16.00pm. We are very flexible about this as many of our volunteers have other on-line obligations . Weekends are free but they can be swapped for weekdays if there is a good reason.
Because of the Change-overs it may be necessary to work a few hours at the weekend.

Rules

We are very relxed about rules,expecting the volunteers to be respectful of their lodgings . We ask that they show interest in our local culture .