Apply Now

B&B Volunteering: help us cleening rooms and experiencing Sicily

4.0
(6 reviews)6

The experience

Join our B&B in Sicily! Help with cleaning rooms, cooking, gardening, feeding animals and seasonal tasks. Hours are flexible, meals included sometimes with fresh organic food from our garden and chickens. We share tasks daily in a friendly atmosphere. Enjoy our meditation room, explore Sicily on days off, and sometimes use a car if you drive. For more info click on learn more🌍✨

What you offer

25 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.

Reception: Help with check-ins, check-outs and guest assistance.

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.

Team Dorm: You will have a bed in a shared room, which means you will share the same room with other people.

Tent: You will sleep in a tent at a camping site.

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!

Pick Up: We will pick you up when you arrive, and take you to our property.

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.

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

Dedicated Workspace: Specific space for you to work remotely

Requirements

Beginner Italian or Beginner English

Between 23 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

The night before or the morning of the workday, the tasks for the morning are arranged. If there is a day that you cannot work, giving advance notice will be no problem.
Usually, this begins with cleaning and feeding the chickens, followed by cleaning the rooms (there are five in total) of the bed and breakfast if there are any checkouts, washing and hanging sheets, and helping with ironing if necessary. For these tasks, hired staff come once a week. When they come, she'll be assisted with whatever she needs, and the other days, the tasks will be varied.

Our food is delicious, we try to cook with fresh and organic food and products from the garden and eggs from our chickens. Breakfast, lunch and dinner are included in the volunteering but everyday we organise who prepares it.
We communicate on a daily basis to see what tasks each of us is doing.

We have a meditation room, where yoga or spiritual gatherings are often held, and you can participate if you wish. Also, if you want to use it to teach something, or use only for you, you can do it!

I am also available to recommend places in Sicily for you to visit on your days off. Sometimes, if you know how to drive, a car is available

Activities & Shift

Watering plants and cleaning outdoor areas of the property is also needed, mostly in summer.

The hours are not fixed; some days we work more and some days less, depending on the number of guests, the weather and the daily tasks that could also be mantainance or collection of carrube (depending the month).

Our food is delicious, we try to cook with fresh and organic food and products from the garden and eggs from our chickens. Breakfast, lunch and dinner are included in the volunteering but everyday we organise who prepares it.
We communicate on a daily basis to see what tasks each of us is doing.

We have a meditation room, where yoga or spiritual gatherings are often held, and you can participate if you wish. Also, if you want to use it to teach something, or use only for you, you can do it!

I am also available to recommend places in Sicily for you to visit on your days off. Sometimes, if you know how to drive, a car is available

Rules

We are smokers, so smoking is allowed in the house. Volunteering at Vinciucci is like being at home. We don't say this just because we want a family atmosphere, but because we always start the day together and usually have lunch and dinner together, unless there are exceptions and/or we don't want to, but we always let each other know in advance.