ESC: Workcamp in the Spa Park by the Artist's House '25

Name: ESC: Workcamp in the Spa Park by the Artist's House '25
Start: 2025-08-02
End: 2025-08-17
Location: Głuchołazy, Poland

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Poland Culture Environment European Voluntary Service Culture Environment +1 Fixed dates

About the project

📝 Detailed information

🏢 About the local organisation

The Benevolens Foundation was established in 2014 with kindness for others, willingness to help and create a better world. In the Foundation, we are guided by the principle of benevolence and we believe that good done to others returns to us many times. Among our interests are mainly people, nature and history. The main field of activity of the Benevolens Foundation is the protection and promotion of culture, taking care of cultural and natural heritage and activities for the protection and promotion of health, in particular of the elderly and the excluded. The Foundation organizes and co-finances the free time of children and young people. The Foundation accomplishes its goals in particular by publications, organizing concerts, exhibitions, social campaigns, workshops, and trainings. For past 2 years, the Foundation has been organizing workcamps aimed at promoting historical, cultural, social and natural heritage. From 2017 the Foundation implements an investment project entitled "Protection of cultural heritage in the Spa Park in Głuchołazy through the renovation of a historic guesthouse", co-financed by the European Union, as a result of which the historic building will be renovated and a creative workplace will be created for various artists. Artists visiting the House of the Artist will have an opportunity to contribute events and artistic products for a wide audience. In 2016. the Foundation revitalized, thanks to the grant from European Union, a part of the Spa Park in Głuchołazy, which is open for residents and tourists free of charge. The Foundation cooperates with volunteers in various fields, including taking care of the historic park, organizing free time for children and young people and events open to residents and tourists.

💼 What the programme involves

Volunteers' activities will be mostly manual work on fresh air, so be prepared for a hard work ;). The main tasks will be gardening, forestry, cleaning and maintenance works in a historic park (including mowing, weeding, transplanting, prunning, raking and collecting hay, sawing wood, chopping firewood, collecting deadwood, laying wood etc), renovating and painting small architecture and similar if necessary. During the project you will take care of the park, its plants and facilities. After the flood in 2024 there are some renovation works needed in the park, your help will be appreciated. There might be also a possibility to take part or organise the short workshops for locals and other cultural events organised by the Foundation Benevolens in the Artist's House. Volunteers will be working about 6 hours per day, five days per week.

🏠 Accommodation on site

You want to feel like a scout? Sit by the campfire and sing? Come to us! You will sleep on sleeping mats in the tents on the meadow by the Artist's House. You will have access to wc and warm showers in the nearby building. The open fire place will be to volunteers’ disposal. You need to take your sleeping bags and towels, house shoes are highly recommended.

🍲 Food

All the meals will be provided by Benevolens Foundation, either on place, either in nearby restaurant/bar.

🎒 Leisure activities

We organise free time for volunteers: sightseeing the town, hiking at parkowa mountain, visiting border city in Czech republic, gold rinsing in the river, visiting regional museum, volunteers can also do individual activities such as: hiking, bowling, open air swimming pool, visiting nearby cities

⚠️ Requirements

The Participant profile: We are looking for passionate nature and cultural heritage lovers, interested in landscape protection, history and culture. Those who love to spend the time with the nature. You also have to be moderately fit, like to get to know/do gardening and forestry works. We are looking for people who want to work in the group of international individuals and get the feeling of the big family. In your application we would like to see that you are motivated to the care of the place where people like to come back and the reason you chose our project.
Deadline: 15/06/2025 23:59

🤝 Meeting point

The place where workcamp takes place: Artist's House in park in Glucholazy

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.

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