📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Præstø Outdoor is a volunteer-driven organization of people who are passionate about building communities, improving people’s health and enjoying nature through outdoor sports such as mountain biking, trail running and climbing. Most of their activities currently take place in Faksinge Forest near the lovely little town of Præstø one hour south of Copenhagen.
Faksinge forest already has an excellent mountain bike trail, which is open to the public all year round, and Præstø Outdoor wish to establish a running trail with several obstacles and natural parkour areas along with it. They would also like to build a trail centre – a simple structure where people can meet, find shelter, share information, wash their equipment and have a barbecue or cup of coffee.
For hosting you on this camp Præstø Outdoor are collaborating with Bosei Folkhighschool, which is placed inside Faksinge Forest and is the home of approx. 70 students, mainly aged 20-30, who are interested in sports, Japanese culture and personal development. This means that they are more than used to hosting and offering a wide range of fun activities for young people.
Bosei is currently working towards more sustainability and is among other things wanting to start producing their own organic vegetables.
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 part of one or more of three projects:
• Building a natural obstacle/parkour course
• Building a trail centre
• Creating an organic vegetable field
🏠 Accommodation on site
Sleeping:
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.
Toilet and showers:
There is full access to showers and toilets in the school building.
Food:
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
People, who are used to work with their hands in combination with artistic skills, 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. Special motivation letters and other requirements may be attached to the info-sheet.
Unfortunately, we cannot accept participants with disabilities, due to the physical nature of the work
English at a conversational level is required.
ℹ️ Additional information
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 outdoors, quite physical and mainly in the forest 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.
It is preferable, but not required to have some kind of practical skills, since you are to build, paint, etc.
