Help us build a wildlife haven in Alresford, UK
The experience
We are creating an area blooming with native flowers and trees across the seasons, creating a diverse habitat for endangered birds mammals and insects in our bit of the South Downs National Park. We are pesticide free and grow vegetables and fruit organically. We run a conservation group to help nature thrive in our village, with various patches of land and a pond we are restoring and enriching for wildlife. Help on all these would be wondrous
What you offer
20 hours of help per week
Farming:
Plant crops, sow seeds and help in outside tasks.
Animal Care:
Help look after and take care of animals.
Building & Repairing:
Help with a wide range of repairs or building.
Gardening:
Help grow plants and cultivate gardens
What you get
3 days off per week
Private Room:
You will have a bed in a private room. In other words, a room just for you.
Breakfast:
You are entitled to a free breakfast, every day of your stay.
Lunch:
You are entitled to a free lunch, every day of your stay.
Dinner:
You are entitled to a free dinner, every day of your stay.
Free Laundry:
You can use our laundry room freely.
Use our equipped kitchen:
Feel free to use our kitchen and make your own delicious food.
Basic Internet Access:
Basic speed internet for you to work remotely
Requirements
Beginner English or Fluent Spanish
Between 18 and 50 years old
Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers
Travel insurance
What's not included
Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa
Program Details
We will provide food for breakfast and lunch for you to arrange yourself in your caravan kitchen and cook a shared meal each evening.
4 to 5 hours of work on a variety of tasks in the meadow areas, wooded patches, pond, veg garden, fruit and salad garden including weeding, sowing, cutting back, propagating, building log piles, making a bee bank, removing invasive plants, making nest boxes.
Lots of time to chat, relax, enjoy the countryside, listen to birdsong, monitor the bats and hedgehogs, enjoy spotting the deer and hopefully the dormice.
Activities & Shift
Clearing invasive plants, building bug hotels, making hazel structures, mounting and making bird and bat boxes, building log piles, monitoring wildlife and new wildflower growth at our village pond site, sowing and growing seeds of pollinator plants. For those with necessary skills shoring up and strengthening an old barn to create more space for a new pottery studio, and getting the pottery wheel refurbished.
Enjoy playing snooker, pingpong and badminton.
Rules
No loud music.
Respect for and interest in pollinators, bird life, mammals and wild native plants
Keep the caravan and snooker lounge clean and tidy.