📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Join us to live a warm welcoming from the people of Bains sur Oust!
For the 4th time, the village of Bains Sur Oust is willing to host an international workcamp. A project will take place nearby the borough on the Souriais domain, an old farm recently acquired by the city-hall to transform it into a cultural center. A very nice place during summer, surrounded by nature. The locals will be pleased to help you discover the local culture, during a real Breton evening for instance and you will undoubtedly make fantastic encounters with the very welcoming population of the village.
💼 What the programme involves
You will go on with the site development initiated last year. We talk here about weeding out several buildings such as some walls, a bread hoven and others of the kind then rebuild and strengthen them using traditional masonry techniques.
🏠 Accommodation on site
You will be accommodated in tents for 2, close to the local soccer field (bring a warm sleeping bag and a comfortable camping mat). Collective life will take place in the club house entirely dedicated to the group. You will share the different tasks (cooking, cleaning…) in group. A budget for shopping will be managed by the group with the support of the team leader, favoring healthy local products.
📍 About the location
Bains sur Oust (3361 inhabitants) is a vivid village in southern Ille et Vilaine county, close to the city of Redon. The town hall, as the locals, is very involved to welcome the workcamp volunteers. Around the borough, you will be able to discover the local heritage through the surrounding trekking paths. You’ll also find out the Pies island, little green jewel surrounded by the Oust river, also called the “pearl of the canal from Nantes to Brest”. You will be part of the festival of Pies Island, the yearly celebration in Bain Sur Oust! The greatest open-air photo festival takes place each summer in the neighboring village of La Gacilly.
⚠️ Requirements
Whatever the season in Brittany, you have to foresee at least a warm clothing set (trousers, sweater; socks, closed shoes, rain clothes) and a light one (skirt or shorts, t-shirt, open shoes). We say here that all four seasons can take place during a day! Please also take with you work clothes, gloves and shoes in addition to your best swimsuit. Nights can be cold, take a warm sleeping bag and an insulating camping mat. Foreigners belonging to the European Union must bring with them a personal EHIC (European Health Insurance Card), and everybody must, in any case, bring their insurance certificate. If health issues happen on the project, volunteers will have to pay for it, and then be reimbursed once back in their home country.
ℹ️ Additional information
Meeting point:
Redon train station.
Closest airport:
Rennes or Paris