📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Brithdir Mawr is an intentional community and home to around 14 adults and 4 children. They work together to grow food, manage the land for wood and livestock, run educational courses, live off grid and we endeavour to live a low impact lifestyle.
Brithdir Mawr functions as a non hierarchical group, using consensus decision making, personal responsibility and trust to organise and run the site. They run regular volunteer weeks, courses, workshops, tours and social events to engage with the wider community, network and share skills and knowledge and they campaign for social change.
💼 What the programme involves
The peace workcamp at Brithdir Mawr Community will include various activities such as gardening, maintenance, wood processing, and making a clay pizza oven. They also hope you will be able to explore the local area and experience some Welsh culture.
They hope the camp will be fun, educational and inspiring and they look forward to welcoming you there.
🏠 Accommodation on site
The accommodation will be camping in their camping field - please bring your own tents. There are compost toilets (or ’loos’ as we call them in the UK!), solar showers, cold running water and sinks in the camping field. There are more compost toilets down by the farmhouse and hot showers available there also. Cooking will either be in the main house communal kitchen or in the outdoor kitchen. All the heating and cooking is wood fired with wood from the land. They are off grid for electricity (wind, solar and hydro) so sometimes supply is limited if the batteries are low and use of high energy appliances such as electric kettles is restricted. However there is usually enough for normal, mindful use such as lighting, phone charging, laptop use etc.
📍 About the location
Brithdir Mawr is situated in a very rural area with limited public transport however Trefdraeth town is about half an hour walk away with various pubs and cafes, a few shops, a post office, and a lovely beach.
Trefdraeth is situated in an exceptionally beautiful part of Wales, with pretty beaches, forests and a small mountain range. Newport has a lovely beach, river and a famous coastal path with views of the sea over the cliffs. There is also a little mountain that you can walk to from the Brithdir Mawr Community!
ℹ️ Additional information
VAP HOSTING FEE: Volunteers will be asked to pay a fee of £90 GBP upon arrival. VAP charges this fee as without it we would be virtually unable to organise any projects in the UK.