🏰🌿 Help Keep a 650-Year-Old Castle Alive
The experience
We are looking for help to keep Hallgreen castle functioning as a living breathing building into the future. This is a 650 year old building and requires all sorts of ongoing maintenance and minor repairs, both internally and externally, as well as keeping the grounds under control. All sorts of skills are of use from gardening to cleaning to building repair to vehicle maintenance to painting and decorating and many others.
What you offer
25 hours of help per week
Painting & Decorating:
Help with painting or decorating the property facilities.
Building & Repairing:
Help with a wide range of repairs or building.
Gardening:
Help grow plants and cultivate gardens
What you get
2 days off per week
Shared Dorm:
You will have a bed in a shared room, which means you will share the same room with other travelers.
Free Laundry:
You can use our laundry room freely.
Free Tours:
We’ll take you on tours and rides around town. For free!
Bikes at your disposal:
You can use our bikes any time you want.
Pick Up:
We will pick you up when you arrive, and take you to our property.
Use our equipped kitchen:
Feel free to use our kitchen and make your own delicious food.
Fast Internet Access:
High-speed internet for you to work remotely
Requirements
Intermediate English
Between 18 and 72 years old
Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers
What's not included
Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa
Program Details
25 hours of help per week
Cleaning: Help clean the kitchen, bedrooms, bathrooms and common areas.
Painting & Decorating: Help with painting or decorating the property facilities.
Gardening: Help grow plants, cultivate gardens, and weeding.
Building maintenance, depending on your skills and abilities
Help with Social media/web presence.
Vehicle maintenance again depending on your skills and abilities
Activities & Shift
2 days off per week
Actual working hours are negotiable as are the days off
Private one bedroom Flat with kitchen and bathroom. The bedroom is equipped with a double and two single beds so could accommodate up to 4 people. All modern conveniences are provided in the flat (including TV). The flat also has a separate entrance.
We will provide a food allowance for you to purchase meals to cook for yourselves.
Transportation to the local town for shopping when required.
Free Laundry: You can use our laundry room freely.
Pick Up: We will pick you up when you arrive, and take you to our property.
Free Fast Internet Access: High-speed internet for you to work remotely, and Ethernet port is also available for wired connection.
Suitable for solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers, and even family's with up to 2 children.
Rules
No Smoking in the building or use of Illegal drugs.
Pets are allowed.