📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
What\'s the common point between a castle, winter and a giant hole in the floor ? The answer is in Le Créneau ! During this project, you will help us renovate the fixed ice house on the castle grounds. The ice collected from the water in winter was stored there to ensure the preservation of foodstuffs throughout the year. Help us enhance this small heritage, to give it acknowledgment and to highlight the skills acquired over the years! Your actions will be in accordance with the objectives 5 and 8 of sustainable development (UN) in favor of gender equality and decent work and economic growth.
💼 What the programme involves
The work will consist of developing and enhancing the surroundings of the ice house before proceeding with its restoration.
You will:
-Enhance the masonry by clearing the vegetation (construction of a bamboo fence and relocation of part of the bamboo grove)
-Renovate and enhance the access stairs and entrance wall
-Level and renovate the low circular wall to lay a temporary floor
-Installing wooden pillars (and their foundations) to support the future roof
-Renovate the joints of the interior masonry
The work will take place in the morning, from 8:30AM to 1PM, with a break of 30 minutes around 11AM.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Participants will be hosted on Le Créneau’s camping, in collective tents (5-6 per tents) with wooden floor and beds. WiFi is not available on site. Food will be provided and prepared by the participants in groups, in the collective kitchen of Le Créneau, with the support of the cooking staff.
📍 About the location
Weekends are planned collectively with the group leaders. If you want to discover the cities around, Vichy and Moulins are 45 kms away. If you’d rather have a nice walk in nature, the surroundings are perfect for hiking, landscape seeing, discovering local markets, swimming, and enjoying sports activities and games.
ℹ️ Additional information
This project is a volunteering team supported by the European Solidarity Corps. You will receive pocket money (6€ per day) and a travel reimbursement with an upper limit based on the ESC distance calculator.