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Help out at our B&B and activity centre in Tiveden National Park

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The experience

We are a family of 2 adults and 4 children living next to Tiveden National Park in Sweden, Tived. Our place is situated really beautifully next to the lake of the national park. To be here gives you the feeling of being in the middle of nowhere and we are surrounded of a wild forest with many lakes and lots of berries and mushrooms to pick.
We work with tourism and run a B&B and activity center.

What you offer

30 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.

What you get

2 days off per week

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.

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

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 or Intermediate Swedish

Over 20 years old

Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers

What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

Program Details

Our volunteers share a house with 5 bedrooms. There's a kitchen and one bathroom. It also has a nice terrace with a nice view of a lake, right in front of the house. The house is situated, really beautifully in the middle of the wild forest, 4 km away from Ösjönäs, our B&B. The volunteers get a bike to use to get around.
In the house we also have our seasonal workers staying and it's a social place where the volunteers and the workers normally cook, hang out and do activities together.
The season is intense here and our volunteers work a lot but also have the oppurtunity to enjoy the activities at our place, the nature surrounding us and having a good time.
All volunteers who come here are welcome to try out our high rope course, use our kayaks and canoes, saunas and bikes. We also gladly give hiking suggestions and the volunteers who are experienced riders can also go horse back riding

Activities & Shift

We need help in the morning preparing and serving the breakfasts. Normally from 7 am to 1 pm.
We need help in the evenings cooking and serving the dinners, normally 4 pm to 10 pm
The house keeping is noramlly done between 9-15 .
We try to take 1 hour brake every day and eat together.

Rules

We don't have much rules but from our long experience of receiving volunteers we've learned that it's important to have an interest in nature when you come here. Otherwise you will probably not enjoy it very much. It's also good if you like sharing a house and everything that comes with that. High season here can be intense but almost all our volunteers who came here enjoyed it a lot and met friends for life.