📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Beech Hill is a small community living together in a large country house in the hills in the county of Devon, about 25 kms from the city of Exeter. The community has an ecological focus, runs occasional courses and is active in the surrounding villages. It is fairly self-sufficient, growing vegetables and fruit. There is an orchard, vineyard, swimming pool, a reed-bed sewage system and a wind turbine. It has a tradition of volunteering.
This camp will be part of the international Raising Peace Campaign promoted by CCIVS (Co-ordination Committee for International Voluntary Service). The Raising Peace Campaign aims at strengthening and improving the role of international voluntary service movement in the construction of peace and human rights, through raising awareness, training activists and improving advocacy and networking. There will be extra workshops on this theme given during the project.
💼 What the programme involves
Gardening and maintenance of the grounds and other manual work.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Sleeping will be camping (weather dependent) or in shared bedrooms inside the house.
🍲 Food
Volunteers will have their own kitchen and vegetarian ingredients will be provided.
📍 About the location
Volunteers will work over most of the two weekends but the Wednesday will be free for optional visits to Exeter and/or the seaside. In the evenings volleyball, swimming, board games. Pub 1 mile distant.
⚠️ Requirements
Please bring a tent, sleeping bag, working clothes and gloves, waterproof boots (it can be muddy) and raincoat.