📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Do you like walking in the forest? In Le Créneau, we also do! In front of our castle, our hosting center has a beautiful, century-old forest estate with unusual flora. The Prureaux forest is not exploited and little by little the paths have disappeared. Help us to reclaim the forest and reopen a walking path by creating two new ways. In order to make our forest a real support for discovery and awareness, you will create a playful and educational path to discover the natural heritage. Last year, a group of 15 teenager already managed to make the first path, come and help us finish the job !
💼 What the programme involves
Your missions will be to re-open old paths by clearing the paths of fallen trees and branches, by pruning and clearing the surroundings.
You will also create signposting by creating wooden stencils, we will mark the paths with paint so that everyone can find their way around. You will facilitate the pathway by creating small facilities (small steps, bridges and ramps) to help movement and make the pathway safer. You will identify biodiversity with the help of a specialist. This work of identifying the common and remarkable biodiversity of our forest will be a basis for the creation of our environmental education tools (the trail game and the educational trail). You will create a trail game: used by future groups or during nature activities in the forest with schoolchildren and social centers, it will enable them to discover the forest's inhabitants and flora in a playful way (riddles, photo rally, rebus …) Finally, you will create wooden educational panels for visitors and the local population who come to walk in the wood. This trail will combine the useful with the pleasant by marking the path with information on the natural riches of the forest.
🏠 Accommodation on site
You will be hosted on Le Créneau’s camping, in collective tents (5-6 persons per tent) with wooden floor and beds. Wi-fi is not available on site. Food will be provided and prepared in the kitchen of the castle by the participants in groups, with the support of the cooking staff.
📍 About the location
Montcombroux les Mines (45kms away from Moulins).
Leisure activities: Afternoons and weekends are planned collectively with the group leaders. If you want to discover the cities around, Vichy and Moulins are 45 kms away. If you\'d rather have a nice walk in the nature, the surroundings are perfect for hiking, landscape seeing, discovering local markets, swim, and enjoy sports activities and games.