📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Created in 1945, Bordeaux’s CREPS (Center for Sport Ressources, Expertise and Performance) for is a public establishment of 15 hectares located in the city of Talence. It hosts high-level athletes so they can live their sport/school project but also youth, sport and leader training.
Last year, the CREPS and the townhall of Talence started a partnership with Concordia to renovate the Roul’s Chapel. During the work camp, the volunteers found a vault from the 19th century. This year the work camp will explore the chapel to find the vault.
💼 What the programme involves
You will explore the ground of the chapel to try to find the vault’s entry by an archaeological dig. Then you will continue the renovation of the chapel’s floor.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Tents for 2, boys and girls separated, will be provided by the town council. Please bring your floor mat and your sleeping bag. There will also be a collective tent for cooking and diverse activities. You will share collective tasks and prepare meals as a group. You will also have to manage a budget provided by the group facilitators and participate in grocery shopping, favoring healthy and local foods.
📍 About the location
Bordeaux’s CREPS, city of Talence- 5km from Bordeaux. More information about the CREPS: http://www.creps-aquitaine.fr/ and about the chapel: http://www.creps-aquitaine.fr/presentation/actualites-36/archives/article/07-2014-restauration-de-la and a video here : http://france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr/aquitaine/gironde/bordeaux/un-mysterieux-caveau-decouvert-dans-la-chapelle-du-creps-de-talence-779617.html
⚠️ Requirements
Bring a warm sleeping bag and mat, work clothes and work shoes, warm and rain clothes and a flashlight. Foreigners belonging to the European Union must bring with them a personal EHIC (European Health Insurance Card), and everybody must, in any case, bring their insurance certificate. If health issues happen on the project, volunteers will have to pay for it, and then be reimbursed once back in their home country.