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🏰🌿 Help Keep a 650-Year-Old Castle Alive

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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.