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🌿 Join Our Family & Connect with Nature! 🐴✨

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The experience

You will be expected to provide care for our horses day to day, look after our guests who stay with us in self catering cottages, help in a horse box cafe, support our coaches with Equine facilitated services, help out with gardening, projects and land management as well as general cleaning duties in the cottages, outdoor swimming pool and general maintenance on the farm.

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.

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

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.

Dinner: You are entitled to a free dinner, every day of your stay.

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.

Surfboards: You can use our surfboards as much as you want.

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

Between 18 and 60 years old

Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers

What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

Program Details

We expect you to be honest, positive, open to learning, good at working in a team with a love for horses and farm animals.

Activities & Shift

Your typical day will start at 0730 and involve collecting the horses from the fields, feeding them. Checking the farm is ready for the day by cleaning the swimming pool and checking the cleanliness of the site. You will then support the team with any client Horse Connection sessions. You will be required to operate the horsebox cafe serving barista made hot drinks and snacks. There will be general horse care duties including mucking out stables and poo picking in the fields. We will provide full training and support for every task.

Rules

We expect you to be polite, caring, supportive and have a love for animals.