📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
It’s the 8th workcamp hosted by this municipality in Oise County, at the edge of the Chantilly and Ermenonville forests. Thiers sur Thève wishes to receive volunteers and contribute to the valorisation of its heritage and the local life’s animation through the rehabilitation of its church. It is a small town with 2 shops, surrounded by forests: a green workcamp! Every year, several inhabitants mobilize to offer the best welcoming to the volunteers and make them discover local assets. A small training workcamp will be organized in May 2017 to prepare the main work.
💼 What the programme involves
This year we will work in two different areas:
• On the church, you’ll have to finalize some little works on the choir, on a cornice…to give back its splendour to the church.
• On the wall of the cemetery, that was built around the same time as the nave of the church, you’ll have to remove the joints and joint the walls as they used to do in the past, using traditional techniques with lime. If necessary, there will be stone cutting.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Volunteers will be accommodated at the municipal hall with equipped kitchen (oven, dishwasher…). You will be able to sleep under tents or use camp beds to sleep on the municipal hall, as you prefer. The group will be sharing the cleaning chores and preparing meals together.
📍 About the location
Thiers sur Thève is located in the “Oise Pays de France” Regional Nature Park, near the Val d’Oise County and city of Senlis. You’ll be at the heart of Chantilly forest, its famous castle and stud farms, close to Paris. More information: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiers-sur-Th%C3%A8ve
ℹ️ Additional information
Remember to bring clothes for the manual work and closed shoes. Bring your sleeping bag and if you prefer sleeping under tent, a floor mat. Please feel free to bring some food specialties, pictures, musical instrument: things you like and want to share with the group and the local community!
Foreigners belonging to the European Union must bring with them a personal EHIC (European Health Insurance Card), and everybody must, in any case, bring their insurance certificate. If health issues happen on the project, volunteers will have to pay for it, and then be reimbursed once back in their home country.