📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Vollore-Ville is a municipality in the Puy-de-Dome department, in the Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes region, located 50 km east of Clermont-Ferrand. It is one of the oldest communes in the territory. Inhabited since Prehistory, the town was a Merovingian fortress during the High Middle Ages (dynasty that ruled France from the 5th century to the middle of the 7th century). It is also located in the heart of the Regional Natural Park of Livradois-Forez. The municipality wishes to involve young volunteers in the preparation of the Vollore Concerts and the setting up of a panoramic terrace on the vegetable garden of the village.
💼 What the programme involves
First of all, you will support the technical services and volunteers in the preparation of the Vollore Concerts (classical music festival). Then, you will have to build and set up a panoramic terrace in the municipal vegetable garden. It will serve as a relaxation and picnic area for residents and visitors. To do this, you will be supervised by a technical services officer from the city who will be happy to share his knowledge with you. You will work 4 to 5 hours a day and you will go to the work place by walk (about 1 km).
🏠 Accommodation on site
You will be accommodated in a tent on the municipal campsite Le Grun de Chignore . You will have access to the sanitary facilities of the campsite for showers and toilets. You will also have access to the campsite s swimming pool and petanque area. The kitchen will be arranged in the garden shed with a table outside, about 1km away from the campsite. You will be allowed to eat the fruits of the trees in the garden.
📍 About the location
Vollore-Ville is a town of 780 inhabitants. The town castle is a remain of the local landlords. You will be able to visit its park, medieval halls and exhibitions. You can also stroll through the streets of Vollore-Ville and visit the Saint-Maurice church. During your stay, you will be able to enjoy the Vollore concert program and also take part in the Bastille Day celebration on July 14. With no less than 62 km of municipal trails and 100 km of rural trails, the town is a delight for hikers. Thus you will have the opportunity to discover a nature and its biodiversity and to admire remarkable panoramas on the Chaine des Puys, the Livradois and the plain of Limagne. The Aubusson d Auvergne lake (5km from Vollore-Ville) offers a remarkable bathing spot. At last, a meeting will be organized with local youth in Thiers.
⚠️ Requirements
This site will allow you to understand all the logistics necessary to set up a festival in a village and more broadly to organize an event. The second part of the site, more technical, will allow you to acquire knowledge in construction and landscaping. Working as a team, both with the campleaders and with other volunteers, you will develop your adaptability, versatility, rigor and tenacity. Those are skills you will also strengthen through group life.
