📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Camphill Ballybay (www.camphill.ie) is one of 60 Camphill communities around the world and one of 17 in Ireland offering people with intellectual disabilities a sheltered environment in which their educational, therapeutic and social needs can be met. The community has a small farm, a weavery, a candle-making workshop and a garden with glasshouse and plastic tunnels. The farm and vegetable garden are run along organic/ bio-dynamic lines.
💼 What the programme involves
Picking fruit and general gardening work. The main task will be helping to care for the crops, volunteers will also pick some berries for use by the community throughout the year. There may also be some general manual work around the farm as well as gardening work.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Bunk-beds in a small house. Volunteers will cook for themselves in their own kitchen.
The volunteers don't need sleeping bags - we will provide bedding.
WiFi is not available in the house where the volunteers will stay - however there is WiFi reception in the tearoom within the community next to the office.
📍 About the location
Ballybay is in an isolated area, located in the countryside, just south of the border with Northern Ireland
ℹ️ Additional information
Strict Child and Vulnerable Adults Protection procedures will be applied including Police Check and references. Please send your application first and we will contact you with further information. These procedures take time and volunteers are encouraged to apply well in advance of the project start date.