CHARITY SHOP

CTL Ireland – the Center for Travel and Learning - is an Irish based organisation committed to promote responsible volunteering in Irish communities. Our staff has years of experience supporting international volunteers and placing them in local projects. We are driven to provide a positive and sustainable impact alongside our local partners. Our volunteer programs involve an immersion within local communities and the Irish culture. The programs allow participants contribute their skills and energy to support local projects in achieving their goals. Programs are also designed to encourage participants to learn and reflect on their experience. We support individuals and groups all throughout their program, from the orientation workshop until the final evaluation. All volunteers start their program in friendly and vibrant city of Cork before joining their host project. This farming, heritage conservation & café project is located in the heart of rural Ireland, about 45 minutes from Cork City, Ireland’s 2nd largest city. The farm is part of a large historical property which dates from the 18th century. It is surrounded by picturesque countryside with rolling hills, mountains, rivers and waterfalls. The 250 year old Georgian house is surrounded by beautiful gardens, fields and woodlands including a historical Victorian wall garden. The project strives to maintain this unique Irish heritage while using farming and gardening methods that sustain the natural environment. The farm produces vegetable in the summer as well as meat (beef and lamb – in the process of being organically certified). The project also focuses on maintaining biodiversity with its woodlands, which include native trees, bat houses, sand for solitary bees etc. These woodlands are part of a national Native Woodlands Conservation scheme. The Farm Shop and Café brings products from local farms to the people of Cork city, helping to bridge the urban-rural divide and promoting the consumption of local healthy products in a country where the vast majority of vegetables is imported from abroad. The project focuses on involving international volunteers in farming, maintenance and heritage conservation activities as well as helping at the Farm Shop and Café in Cork City, a vibrant and friendly city. This project requires volunteers all year round. This project requires volunteers all year round.