📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Bosei Folk High School is the home of approx. 100 students, mainly aged 20-30, who are interested in sports, Japanese culture and personal development. It is located in a forest near the lovely little town of Præstø one hour south of Copenhagen and has excellent facilities for all sorts of fun experiences for young people.
Bosei is currently working towards more sustainability and has among other things started producing their own organic vegetables, which are used in the school’s own kitchen as well as a local Michelin-star restaurant. The garden has become a centre of attention and activities in the area, and during this Work Camp, you will build an outdoor kitchen by the vegetable field, which will be open to the public and host events around organic food production, cooking etc.
Last year we also had a Work Camp, where the participants built a similar structure and an obstacle course. It was so much fun that we want to try it again!
You can visit Bosei’s webpage here:
https://www.bosei.dk/en/
Or see a video of the place here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uQa0KApvYY
💼 What the programme involves
Please prepare for practical work. You will be building/assembling a wooden structure to serve as an outdoor kitchen. No building experience needed, the work will be led by a professional carpenter.
The working hours will be approximately 8.30-15.30 with a lunch break in the middle. There is no work during the weekend.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Sleeping facilities:
All participants will sleep in bunk beds in rooms of 4, 6 or 8 people. We have duvets and pillows for everyone, so you just need to bring your own sheets/covers and towels. There are washing machines (15 DKK) and dryers (25 DKK) available, which can be paid for with cash or credit card.
Kitchen + bathroom facilities:
Toilets and bathrooms are shared and divided by gender. We can find solutions if you for any reason need more privacy. Our kitchen will serve three meals a day, and there is always fruit, tea and coffee available.
📍 About the location
Apart from working, you will, of course, have time to participate in all sorts of activities at the school and in the local area. It would be a good idea to bring swimming clothes, sports clothes (among other things, you will have the chance to try out mountain biking or testing out the new course with workshops in parkour and natural movement), and maybe even clothes for going out if you like to plan a trip to Copenhagen during the weekend.
⚠️ Requirements
OBS! To participate in this Work Camp, we require you to provide:
A motivational letter
Travel information
COVID-19:
In regards to COVID-19, it is our ambition to complete our Work Camps this summer, but it is essential for us, that our volunteers feel safe during the time they spend at our camps. This is why we constantly keep ourselves updated on the situation and we follow the Danish government's instructions. Furthermore, we are ready to answer any questions that you might have, and we will keep all our volunteers updated right up until the start of the Work Camp.
As of March 2021, there is a few important things to mention:
- it is free for foreigners to take a COVID-19 test upon arrival in Denmark
- with the current vaccine plan, most Danes will be vaccinated at the end of June 2021
Your Work Camp host will have guidelines on how to handle COVID-19 during your stay, including how to handle isolation and enforcement of government guidelines.
Unfortunately, we cannot accept participants with disabilities, due to the physical nature of the work.
Volunteers are expected to follow the rules of the school. We want to make sure that you appreciate, that our workcamp is not a party camp - but a camp where we meet each other in a mutual understanding of a wish, to share culture from the world.
All work will be quite physical and outdoors no matter the weather. Although it is generally nice in Denmark this time of year, you can never know, so you must be prepared to face both sunshine and rain and get some dirt on your hands.
People who are used to working with their hands will be preferred to the work camp and volunteers are expected to be ready to share their culture with the other participants and students at the school.
English will be the only language spoken. All participants must be willing to speak English, even though being from the same country or having troubles with the English language. Try your best!