ESC: ESC Discover Mansion Leens

Name: ESC: ESC Discover Mansion Leens
Start: 2025-07-05
End: 2025-07-19
Location: Leens, Netherlands

Code: 46685 Copied

Netherlands European Voluntary Service Environment European Voluntary Service Environment Fixed dates

About the project

📝 Detailed information

💼 What the programme involves

The historic Manor Oosterhouw in Leens offers a recurring volunteering opportunity. Built in 1868, the mansion and its gardens have remained largely unchanged since 1912. Volunteers help restore and maintain the gardens through digging, weeding, pruning, and wood shredding. The project offers a chance to work in a multicultural team, learn gardening and preservation skills, and help protect this unique cultural site. Volunteers work five days a week; on other days, camp leaders organize cultural and team-building activities to help participants connect and explore the Netherlands. With a team returning from last year’s successful project, this is a great way to make a positive impact on the environment and local community while experiencing life in the flat agricultural landscape of Groningen.

🏠 Accommodation on site

Volunteers stay at Camping De Horizon in Molenrij, sharing tents (provided by SIW). A group tent and two tiny houses with kitchens are available. Bring your own sleeping mat and sheets. Bicycles are provided for the 15-minute ride to Oosterhouw and for free time. Meals are cooked in teams, and everyone joins the Cooking-Cleaning-Crew (CCC). Tasks are self-organized.

🎒 Leisure activities

Online training is available upon request.

⚠️ Requirements

The Participant profile: No specific profile or skills are required but only motivation for the project, for its themes and values, for life in an international group and for the willingness to discover the local population and landscapes.
Deadline: 18/06/2025 23:00

ℹ️ Additional information

The project is implemented under the European Solidarity Corps Programme, financed by the European Commission.
The participating organisations have to be mindful of these needs as they are responsible for providing a respectful and trusting hosting environment. At the same time, the organisations participating in the initiative devote a great deal of time, energy and resources to set up a high-quality activity; they should therefore expect that European Solidarity Corps participants show a similar level of respect for the local communities and the people that are directly concerned by the activities (https://youth.europa.eu/solidarity/mission_en).
What do we provide ?

Training before and after the project
Health insurance during your project
round-trip travel reimbursement
accommodation and food
pocket money
language course
Return Week-end
Youth Pass and SVI international Volunteer passport

Before applying for this volunteering project, you need to enroll yourself at European Solidarity Corps Platform (https://europa.eu/youth/solidarity_en) and specify your European Solidarity Corps Participant Number (PRN).
This organisation holds a European Solidarity Corps Quality Label.
Contact the ESC coordinator at +32 2 888 67 13 to get more informations.

Interested in this project? Create your account and apply online.

📅 Available sessions

NL46685

05/07/2025 → 19/07/2025

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Deadline: 18/06/2025

ℹ️ Key information

Age required

18–30 years old

Solidarity donation

0.00 EUR

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

📍 Location

Hoofdstraat 35, 9965 PA Leens, Netherlands

Netherlands

🌍 Location info

Local currency

Euro Member Countries (EUR / €)

Timezone

Central European Summer Time

Local time: 21:09 (12/11/2026)

🛡️ Before you leave

Security information

📞 Contact us

[email protected]

+32 2 888 67 13

Contact form

✅ Features

🏠 Accommodation

Collective

🗣️ Languages spoken

English Dutch