📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Concordia and UFCV have been partners for many years. UFCV’s leisure center is located in the beautiful Frayse’s estate, a former wine estate of 24 hectares in which you can find sports areas, an educational farm and an intergenerational garden plot.
This year, UFCV and Concordia offer you a workcamp on landscaping and preservation of the natural heritage of the Frayse’s estate. You will help in the renovation of the walking trails and the watercourses. You will participate in the building of natural wooden barriers and to the creation of common spaces in the park. You will also have the opportunity to create an insect hotel that will allow you to discover the importance of these creatures in the environment.
💼 What the programme involves
You will help in the rehabilitation of the walking trails of the park: weeding, bush clearing and also building natural barriers in woven wood to protect the two ponds of the estate. You will also build outdoor furniture creating welcoming spaces in the outside for an area dedicated for the local youth that will be joining the project.
🏠 Accommodation on site
You will be housed in tents with a collective room available for cooking and different activities. The estate will provide you open air living rooms to enjoy your free time out in the sun. http://www.domaine-de-la-frayse.fr/
📍 About the location
The Frayse’s estate is located 15km away from Bordeaux in Fargues-Saint-Hilaire, just next to Entre-Deux-Mers region. This area is well-known for its vineyards between Garonne and Dordogne rivers. Not too far south are Marmande and Langon, to the West Bordeaux, Libourne in the North, and Bergerac in the East. You will be charmed by the ancient cities, the mills and castles around.
⚠️ Requirements
Please bring a good sleeping bag, working clothes, sport shoes, warm and rain clothes, a flashlight, a swimsuit and sun cream.
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.
Meeting point:
BORDEAUX’s train station (33), Belcier exit.
Closest airport:
Bordeaux