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CAUDRY - The city of lace

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About the project

CAUDRY - The city of lace

📝 Detailed information

🏢 About the local organisation

For the first time the city of Caudry opens its doors to a CONCORDIA workcamp. A lot of associations of the municipality will also open their activities to you, a warm welcome included. In the center of Caudry, you will find a leisure park, Le Val de Rio, offering many activities. This year, you will work in this leisure park.

💼 What the programme involves

In this workcamp, you will work around this leisure park. Your mission will be to clean and clear different corners of the leisure park. During your mission, you will build a pathway between the animal park and the pond.

🏠 Accommodation on site

You will be accommodated in official municipal apartments, in dormitories for 3-4 people. Girls and boys will be separated. Showers are also available in the apartments. Meals will be prepared by the volunteers.

📍 About the location

Caudry is a French city located in the southern part of Nord department, in the Hauts-de-Fance region. At the beginning of the 19th century, weavers started to make tulles, a transparent and misty tissue, using tools imported from England. In 1910, the city has been crowned in Bruxelles at the international exposition. Caudry is well-known for its lace and won the award “Ville et métier d’art” in 1910. You will be able to visit the lace museum; The city has many animations especially in the leisure park Caudry is located in the Cambraisie and is 13.5km away from the East of Cambrais and 30km from the Belgium border. The municipality is located on agricultural land.

⚠️ Requirements

Bring working clothes and shoes. For the accommodation in tents, bring your sleeping bag and floor mat. Please feel free to bring some food specialties, pictures, musical instrument from your home countries: things you like and want to share with the group and the local community!

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📅 Available sessions

CONCF-249

07/08/2019 → 21/08/2019

Closed
Volunteers registered 0 / 16
♂ 0/8 ♀ 0/8

ℹ️ Key information

Age required

15–17 years old

Solidarity donation

165.00 EUR

French tax residents may be eligible for a tax reduction of up to 66% of their costs (membership, plane tickets, solidarity donation).

📍 Location

59540 Caudry, France

France

🌍 Location info

Local currency

Euro Member Countries (EUR / €)

Timezone

Central European Standard Time

Local time: 22:12 (12/11/2026)

✅ Features

🗣️ Languages spoken

English French