📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
It’s the 9th workcamp hosted by this municipality in Oise County, at the edge of the Chantilly and Ermenonville forests. Thiers sur Theve 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 are mobilized to offer the best welcome to the volunteers and make them discover local assets. A small training workcamp will be organized in May 2018 to prepare the main work.
💼 What the programme involves
This year we will work on the wall of the cemetery, it was built around the same time as the nave of the church and you’ll have to use the same techniques as the ones we used for the church, you will remove the joints and joint the walls as they used to do in the past, using traditional techniques with lime. There will be some stone cutting if necessary.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Volunteers will be accommodated at the municipal hall with fully equipped kitchen (oven, dishwasher…). You will be able to choose between sleeping under tents or using camp beds inside the municipal hall, as you prefer. The group will be sharing the cleaning chores and preparing meals together.
📍 About the location
Thiers sur Theve 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
Remember to bring clothes for the manual work and closed shoes. Bring your sleeping bag and if you prefer to sleep 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.
ℹ️ Additional information
Meeting point:
Orry la Ville train station.
Closest airport:
Paris.