📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
It’s the 7th workcamp hosted by this municipality in the Oise County, at the edge of the Chantilly and Ermenonville forests. Thiers sur Thève wishes to receive volunteers and contribute to the valorization of its heritage and the local life’s animation through the rehabilitation of its church. Thiers sur Thève is a small town with 2 shops, surrounded by forests: this is 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 2016 to prepare the main work.
💼 What the programme involves
You’ll have to remove the joints from the outside walls of the church nave (the northern side) and re-joint the walls like they did in the past years, using traditional techniques with lime. If necessary, there will be stone cutting. Be careful, a part of the work will be on scaffoldings.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Volunteers will be using the municipal hall for daily life, furbished with an equipped kitchen (hoven, dishwasher…). You can sleep under tents or use cots to sleep in the municipal hall, as you want.
📍 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
⚠️ Requirements
Part of the work will need the use of scaffoldings. It is best not to have vertigo to participate to this project. Remember to take clothes for the manual work and closed-toe shoes like baskets. For the accommodation under tents, bring your sleeping bag and floor mat. Please feel free to bring some food specialities, 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.
ℹ️ Additional information
Meeting point:
Orry la Ville train station
Closest airport:
Paris