📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
The Quadrangle Trust, housed in a farm built in 1870, is a non-profit enterprise the runs art, well-being, ecology and sustainability education programmes and workshops. It is used by many different organisations and charities and has a particular focus on working with young people, refugees and asylum seekers who have limited access to the countryside. It is situated in the beautiful Kent countryside only 27 miles (43 kms) Southeast from central London.
This camp will be part of the international Raising Peace Campaign promoted by CCIVS - UNESCO . The Raising Peace Campaign aims at strengthening and improving the role of international voluntary service movement in the construction of peace and human rights, through raising awareness, training activists and improving advocacy and networking. There will be extra workshops on this theme given during the project.
💼 What the programme involves
Hard work clearing a small area of woodland: cutting back and digging up the roots of invasive bushes.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Sleeping in a large dormitory, cooking, eating and relaxing in a kitchen and sitting room.
📍 About the location
Shoreham, near Sevenoaks, Kent. Train from London in 1 hour or less.
🎒 Leisure activities
Screening of documentary films and discussion; swimming in the river (if the weather is warm); Scottish dancing; one day visit to London in the middle of the camp.
⚠️ Requirements
VAP applied for funding which in case of being successful will pay the costs of this camp and in that case we will not need to charge a hosting fee. We will inform our partners of the results of the funding application during the month of May.