📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
In the heart of Savoy region, come discover La Motte-Servolex, city open to the world, and celebrate the 15th birthday of our international workcamp!
Over the years, La Motte-Servolex's workcamp became a landmark into the culture of this small town, which will welcome you with a lot of conviviality and generosity. With the support of the communal services, you will participate to a collective action for the heritage enhancement, together with locals willing to share with you their knowledge and traditions.
💼 What the programme involves
You'll participate to the renovation of a dry-stone low wall in the surroundings of the Saint-Jean-Baptiste church and to small restoration works on the Place de la Lecture, in the heart of the city. For 15 years, the communal agents have accompanied the realization of the workcamps, and transmitted their skills.
🏠 Accommodation on site
You'll be sleeping in tents in front of the Sports Hall Didier Parpillon, at the Raoul Villot stadium, right by the city center. Bring your sleeping bag and mat. The kitchen, toilets, showers, and the collective living space will be inside the Sports Hall, which will also allow the group to shelter in case of bad weather.
You will participate to the preparation of the meals in turns. We'll favor the local products and the short supply circuits. Tastings of local specialties may also be organized with local producers.
📍 About the location
La Motte-Servolex (11 500 inhabitants) is a municipality situated in the Savoy county, in the new Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. It's bound to the Chambéry urban agglomeration, less than 10 km away. Thanks to the motorway network, Lyon and Genève are situated respectively 1h20 and 1h away from La Motte-Servolex.
You'll have access to many leisure activities (open-air cinema, swimming to the Bourget lake, cycling…) in an environment both mountainous and urban.
⚠️ Requirements
The municipality will provide gloves, reflective jackets and safety glasses for the work. Don't forget to bring working clothes and closed shoes with you. As the nights can be cool, take a warm sleeping bag with you. Some convivial times will be organized! If you want to share a bit of your culture with the others, bring a piece of your country in your backpack (cooking recipes, traditional tales, unusual objects…). 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.
ℹ️ Additional information
Meeting point:
Chambéry-Challes-les-Eaux train station
Closest airport:
Lyon or Paris