📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Do you wish to have a collective and interculturally intense experience ? Do you love the countryside and the outdoor life? If yes, this workcamp is for you! Le Créneau, an association of popular education, waits for you in the Castle of Prureaux, the welcome international welcome center in the heart of the bourbon countryside. You will share the everyday and workcamp lives with people from all over the world and from different social backgrounds, coming to offer you a week, a month, or a whole year of their time and energy because the more people there are, the further we will go!
💼 What the programme involves
The Castle of Prureaux is situated in the center of an old agriculture field surrounded by a wall. This 2-meter wall, that has never been restored, is now covered by vegetation, which has caused some parts to collapse. Therefore, the work will consist of rebuilding this wall and securing the entrance to the enclosure. Doing so, you will learn how to make a traditional lime primer, using your hands and trowels, and discover the advantages of this material when it is used to build old walls: its implementation (calculations and proportions) and the different finishing-touch techniques. Since some parts of the wall are significantly deteriorated, you will also work on brick-laying middle sized stones, as well as bourbon flat tiles, to level the wall. To keep the original aesthetic, you will have to pay close attention to the identical reproduction of the work.
🏠 Accommodation on site
In tents with access to outdoor sanitary blocks and dry toilets. An equiped kitchen is situated in the main building. Food is provided and the meals will be prepared by rotating groups of volunteers.
📍 About the location
Montcombroux-les-Mines (Allier), 45 km from Vichy.
This workcamp will allow you to meet younsters from France and all over the world and to discover the rural way of life of this region. You will visit the nearest cities: Moulins and Vichy and be able to go to the swimming pool.
ℹ️ Additional information
During Summer, the center can only welcome up to 50 people.