PIGOTTS MUSIC CAMP

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About the project

PIGOTTS MUSIC CAMP

📝 Detailed information

🏢 About the local organisation

Pigotts Music Camp is a community of like minded classical musicians who come together each weekend to enjoy music making to a high standard. Volunteers will join music camp volunteers working on refurbishing communal rooms, tending the half-acre small-holding and looking after the surrounding woodland. Particular suitable (but not restricted) to classical musicians keen to join in with a weekend of Bach cantatas.

💼 What the programme involves

The range of tasks could include any of the following: - Clearing ground and digging in the half acre small-holding and more widely around Pigotts including hedge trimming, mowing, clearing paths, etc. - Painting external windows and doors, and internal emulsioning of walls, etc. - Working in the woods clearing and burning holly, which is crowding out the beech trees. - Retrieving fallen trees, logging and stacking logs. We will provide an appropriately trained and equipped person for any chainsaw work required. - Sorting and cataloguing music. - Clearing out junk from some unloved corners and doing trips to the tip. MUSICAL WEEKEND: Over the middle weekend – 8/9 July there will be a musical weekend – possibly Bach Cantatas, which international volunteers would be welcome to join in as singers or instrumentalists - we would need to know in advance who might play/sing and what, so that we could plan around that.

🏠 Accommodation on site

During the musical weekend, there will be a team of volunteers cooking and so the group could be included for meals and would be expected to join in with the washing up etc along with everyone else. Outside of the weekend, the group will work together to use our facilities to self-cater and look after themselves. Accommodation will be in tents which will be provided by the project. Volunteers should bring sleeping bags and clothes as if for camping. There are basic campsite style showers, toilets and washing facilities used by all of the music camp community.

📍 About the location

LOCATION: High Wycombe. The train journey takes 25 minutes out of Marylebone Station in London. LEISURE TIME: On weekends we recommend self organised trips to explore London or there are some excellent long distance walks locally. Oxford is also reachable by train fairly easily now that Oxford Parkway station is open. In the evenings, we can organise a bonfire, a film night, a games night, etc.

ℹ️ Additional information

VAP HOSTING FEE: £80 to be paid upon arrival. VAP charges this fee as without it we would be virtually unable to organise any projects in the UK.

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📅 Available sessions

VAP UK-01

03/07/2017 → 14/07/2017

Closed

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ℹ️ Key information

Age required

18–99 years old

Solidarity donation

80.00 GBP ≈ 96 EUR

French tax residents may be eligible for a tax reduction of up to 66% of their costs (membership, plane tickets, solidarity donation).

📍 Location

High Wycombe, UK

GREAT BRITAIN

🌍 Location info

Local currency

United Kingdom Pound (GBP / £)

Exchange rate

1 GBP = 1.195652 EUR

Rate as of 31/05/2026

Timezone

British Summer Time

Local time: 21:15 (12/11/2026)

🛡️ Before you leave

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📞 Contact us

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+32 2 888 67 13

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🗣️ Languages spoken

English