📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Do you like to take a walk 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.
💼 What the programme involves
- Reopening old paths: by clearing the paths of fallen trees and branches, by pruning and clearing the surroundings.
- Creating signposting: by creating wooden stencils, we will mark the paths with paint so that everyone can find their way around.
- Facilitating the pathway: by creating small facilities (small steps, bridges and ramps) to help movement and make the pathway safer
- Identify biodiversity: Accompanied by 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)
- 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 …)
- Create wooden educational panels: For use by visitors and the local population who come to walk in the woods, this trail will combine the useful with the pleasant by marking the path with information on the natural riches of the forest.
The work will take place in the morning, from 8:30AM to 1PM, with a break of 30 minutes around 11AM.
🏠 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. WiFi 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 (45 kms away from Moulins). 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 nature, the surroundings are perfect for hiking, landscape seeing, discovering local markets, swimming, and enjoying sports activities and games.