📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
The Amelia Trust is a working farm set on 160 acres of countryside in the beautiful Vale of Glamorgan. Visitors are invited to see, hear and smell a working farm, which is providing an alternative education for vulnerable and disadvantaged young people working with skilled staff and volunteers.
The many other people that make up the daily community on the farm include volunteers, adults with learning difficulties on work placements and members of the public enjoying the wonders of nature which offer a calming and therapeutic environment. It is a fantastic recipe that makes the Amelia Trust Farm an amazing place to be. http://www.ameliatrust.org.uk/
💼 What the programme involves
A weekend away from it all on a lovely community farm with a group of interesting likeminded people, doing some outdoorsy volunteering, eating nice food and meeting lots of cute animals.
The work depends on the weather (but we already know it's going to be lovely and sunny) and what the farm needs doing, but you can expect to do some environmental work in the expansive grounds of the farm, clearing the woodland trails so that they can be reopened to the public. There might also be the chance to help with some animal care or build bug hotels out of pallets.
🏠 Accommodation on site
We'll stay in the bunkhouse on the farm; there are 6 bedroom ranging from 3 to 8 beds in each so plenty of room, and we'll cook and eat together in a big common room complete with a woodburner.
📍 About the location
We´ll entertain ourselves in the evenings, and there are lots of lovely areas and trails to be explored around the farm. One evening we'll make pizzas in the cob oven. And there will be an Easter egg hunt at some point too, of course :)
⚠️ Requirements
Strong footwear for working, work clothes, warm clothes, wet weather clothing, warm sleeping bag. Volunteers should be interested in working in an outdoor environments and getting to meet new people from diverse backgrounds and having a fantastic weekend!!
ℹ️ Additional information
Everyone is welcome! Whether you have volunteered before or not, you are welcome to join us. We have funding to run the weekend from Gwirvol, so a certain number of spaces will be reserved for those aged 18-25 from or currently living in Wales, but everyone is welcome. Under 18s are welcomed if they are accompanied by an adult who is responsible for them.
We're asking for a £10 contribution per person, if you are able. That will cover your food, accommodation and return travel from Barry train station. If this fee is prohibitive to you joining us, or if you are receipt of benefits then let us know when you apply.