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Help with projects at our Vegan & Animal Sanctuary (western France)

France, Châteauponsac, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
MirandaHost Family
We're a four person family and work and live within a vegan sanctuary for rescued farm and companion animals.
Languages spoken: English, French
Response rate: 57%
Response time over a week
Miranda is part of:Big V Sanctuary
Miranda is part of:Big V Sanctuary
Basic information
min 21 day(s)
18+
8 helpers

We are a four persons family and work and live within a vegan sanctuary for rescued farm and companion animals. we have on average over 140 animals with us at any given time. Our children are 8 & 13 and are homeschooled. We expect people to join us that are honest in their approach to life, compassionates in their world views and hard working.

Our dream is to move further into the wild and away from population, so a similar passion is open heartedly welcomed. We would hope that you feel part of a team capable of functioning without the incessant needs of high maintenance.

We welcome hard working, self motivated individuals that can problem solve, and if a task is finished to move onto the next. We are surrounded by countryside, there are many walks and places to enjoy being in nature. ST PARDOUX lake is 15 away, so if you enjoy long bike rides, wild swimming or paddle boarding this will be of interest. There are also some quiet beaches.

You can discover our way of life (going off grid, bushcraft, gardening...) and our projects related to this.

We Accept Helper(s)

From:
05 / 05 / 2022
To:
30 / 01 / 2026
Not available
Available
Help Required

Gardening

Building

General Maintenance

Farming

Help with Eco project

Help in the house

Animal care

Charity work

Language practise

Help with Computers / internet

Teaching/Teaching


Hours & Roster

40 hours/week

Work Days

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Sunday

MOTIVATED COUPLE OR SOLE TRAVELLER. Head of care/staff , permanent live in position, ideally couple. 
If a couple we would prefer one to be in care of sanctuary/farmhouse and one to tackle preparing gardens/buildings.

CHILD HELP / HOUSE HELP : 
Our children are bilingual French & English, we would dearly love them to learn Swedish, can you help?
 There have a minimum of 4 hours schooling a day which is structured to lesson plans + homeworks. However if you can teach the subject with outside/forest work they love this. Holiday period is different A high level of ENGLISH required GCSE/O level or equivalent
FRENCH preferred, but not necessary
SWEDISH preferred
MATH to college level
PHYSICS/CHEMISTRY preferred.
Can you play an instrument? We have piano/flute/sax/guitars in the house. Cleaning-hoovering & dusting the house daily. Helping children to keep rooms in order. This role is to be more part of family, so would suit someone flexible, compassionate, educated and above all kind and respectful.

SANCTUARY WORKERS: Hours depending on time of year, needs, days to be arranged on application.
Experience with animals preferred, especially cows/horses/pigs, but not necessary. This is a very physically demanding position. Jobs include: walking dogs/cleaning kennels, cleaning pig houses/moving pigs, cleaning sheep, raking garden. Cleaning cow barns and stables. Grooming horses/cows, cleaning out guinea pigs/rabbits/birds. Poo picking, feeds. Gardening in season + watering. Clearing electric fence lines.

GARDENER: 
Flexible hours depending on the heat level. Jobs depend on season. Weeding/watering/digging/making beds/preparing greenhouses & poly tunnels. Sowing. Maintenance of beds. Clearing orchard. Tending to trees, etc. ... Moving compost.
We have 2 large patches and 2 small, experience preferred as time is needed to teach what to do if not. A passion for working outside and getting dirty essential. Any task tackled should be with an eye for detail and commitment to finish. This is physically demanding.
We are reliant on our harvest.

MAINTENANCE: 
Flexible hours depending on jobs in hand.
Good DIY skills essential, ideas of jobs: maintaining/building/fixing fences/ animal houses/barns.
Clearing leaves/wood from grounds, moving trees/wood, chopping wood.... Can you plumb? Have electrical skills? Not essential but preferred as the jobs needed within the sanctuary are vast, including renovations to bathrooms/bedrooms.

Sleeping
Volunteer House
Dormitory Shared

Eating
Self-Catering

Linen & Laundry
No
Yes

You will be expected to clean your own bedding and room, and leave it ready to the same standard as found, on your departure, and communal areas kept clean + tidy every day.

Accommodation in the sanctuary farmhouse, this is basic but functional + clean.
One double with ensuite shower.
One triple and one twin sharing ensuite shower.
One double + ensuite, the permanent/long duration head of care has attic room. Very large space to have double or twin beds, lounge area and bijou bathroom, open plan.

Bedding provided, not towels. Hot water for showers, kitchen, wood-burner for winter. This house has a kitchen/lounge space. No wifi but 3/4G. We are aware of our water and electricity consumption, so would hope everyone who join us would be also. This is a fully equipped kitchen, time will be allowed during the morning routine for a volunteer to cook, ingredients will be provided and/or lunch prepared when the family/sanctuary routine permits.

The buildings are to be free from animal products as are sanctuary grounds, this is paramount !
One room of this house homes guinea pigs (outside house under construction).

No smoking inside houses or grounds or vaping
In all cases Workawayers are responsible for providing their own breakfast on their working days and days off and their meals on their days off. There are private spaces for individual food storage if you do not wish to community/group cook.

If invited to family home for meal, please help clean-up after meal.

Getting There

Limoges Bellegarde Airport, (LIG/LFBL)

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CLOSEST AIRPORT is Limoges-Bellegarde.

CLOSEST TRAIN STATIONS are La Souterraine and Limoges :
-Gare des benedictins Limoges: Limoges Bénédictins. 4, place Maison Dieu 87036 Limoges
-
Gare SNCF La Souterraine: Place de la Gare, 23300 La Souterraine.

All are about 40 minutes away from us. Arrival on Monday/tuesday. No picking up, there are taxis and bus lines available around us it is up to you to get to the sanctuary (unless privately arranged) and to be here on time for introduction 10.30 to 12 noon, all paperwork and questions will take place for new workers.

The nearest town is 30 minutes away of a nice walk and includes: bus station, taxis & ambulances companies, doctors, bars, town hall, hair dresser, supermarket, bakeries, news agent, fire brigade...

Males & Females welcome

Couples accommodated

Families accommodated

Pets NOT allowed

Hours/days of work and days off to be arranged individually when you contact us and depending on your role/task/schedule/time of the year and weather.

We are a four persons family and work and live within a vegan sanctuary for rescued farm and companion animals. we have on average over 140 animals with us at any given time. Our children are 8 & 13 and are homeschooled. We expect people to join us that are honest in their approach to life, compassionates in their world views and hard working.

Our dream is to move further into the wild and away from population, so a similar passion is open heartedly welcomed. We would hope that you feel part of a team capable of functioning without the incessant needs of high maintenance.

We welcome hard working, self motivated individuals that can problem solve, and if a task is finished to move onto the next. We are surrounded by countryside, there are many walks and places to enjoy being in nature. ST PARDOUX lake is 15 away, so if you enjoy long bike rides, wild swimming or paddle boarding this will be of interest. There are also some quiet beaches.

Basic information
min 21 day(s)
18+
8 helpers

We are a four persons family and work and live within a vegan sanctuary for rescued farm and companion animals. we have on average over 140 animals with us at any given time. Our children are 8 & 13 and are homeschooled. We expect people to join us that are honest in their approach to life, compassionates in their world views and hard working.

Our dream is to move further into the wild and away from population, so a similar passion is open heartedly welcomed. We would hope that you feel part of a team capable of functioning without the incessant needs of high maintenance.

We welcome hard working, self motivated individuals that can problem solve, and if a task is finished to move onto the next. We are surrounded by countryside, there are many walks and places to enjoy being in nature. ST PARDOUX lake is 15 away, so if you enjoy long bike rides, wild swimming or paddle boarding this will be of interest. There are also some quiet beaches.

You can discover our way of life (going off grid, bushcraft, gardening...) and our projects related to this.

We Accept Helper(s)

From:
05 / 05 / 2022
To:
30 / 01 / 2026
Not available
Available
Help Required

Gardening

Building

General Maintenance

Farming

Help with Eco project

Help in the house

Animal care

Charity work

Language practise

Help with Computers / internet

Teaching/Teaching


Hours & Roster

40 hours/week

Work Days

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Sunday

MOTIVATED COUPLE OR SOLE TRAVELLER. Head of care/staff , permanent live in position, ideally couple. 
If a couple we would prefer one to be in care of sanctuary/farmhouse and one to tackle preparing gardens/buildings.

CHILD HELP / HOUSE HELP : 
Our children are bilingual French & English, we would dearly love them to learn Swedish, can you help?
 There have a minimum of 4 hours schooling a day which is structured to lesson plans + homeworks. However if you can teach the subject with outside/forest work they love this. Holiday period is different A high level of ENGLISH required GCSE/O level or equivalent
FRENCH preferred, but not necessary
SWEDISH preferred
MATH to college level
PHYSICS/CHEMISTRY preferred.
Can you play an instrument? We have piano/flute/sax/guitars in the house. Cleaning-hoovering & dusting the house daily. Helping children to keep rooms in order. This role is to be more part of family, so would suit someone flexible, compassionate, educated and above all kind and respectful.

SANCTUARY WORKERS: Hours depending on time of year, needs, days to be arranged on application.
Experience with animals preferred, especially cows/horses/pigs, but not necessary. This is a very physically demanding position. Jobs include: walking dogs/cleaning kennels, cleaning pig houses/moving pigs, cleaning sheep, raking garden. Cleaning cow barns and stables. Grooming horses/cows, cleaning out guinea pigs/rabbits/birds. Poo picking, feeds. Gardening in season + watering. Clearing electric fence lines.

GARDENER: 
Flexible hours depending on the heat level. Jobs depend on season. Weeding/watering/digging/making beds/preparing greenhouses & poly tunnels. Sowing. Maintenance of beds. Clearing orchard. Tending to trees, etc. ... Moving compost.
We have 2 large patches and 2 small, experience preferred as time is needed to teach what to do if not. A passion for working outside and getting dirty essential. Any task tackled should be with an eye for detail and commitment to finish. This is physically demanding.
We are reliant on our harvest.

MAINTENANCE: 
Flexible hours depending on jobs in hand.
Good DIY skills essential, ideas of jobs: maintaining/building/fixing fences/ animal houses/barns.
Clearing leaves/wood from grounds, moving trees/wood, chopping wood.... Can you plumb? Have electrical skills? Not essential but preferred as the jobs needed within the sanctuary are vast, including renovations to bathrooms/bedrooms.

Sleeping
Volunteer House
Dormitory Shared

Eating
Self-Catering

Linen & Laundry
No
Yes

You will be expected to clean your own bedding and room, and leave it ready to the same standard as found, on your departure, and communal areas kept clean + tidy every day.

Accommodation in the sanctuary farmhouse, this is basic but functional + clean.
One double with ensuite shower.
One triple and one twin sharing ensuite shower.
One double + ensuite, the permanent/long duration head of care has attic room. Very large space to have double or twin beds, lounge area and bijou bathroom, open plan.

Bedding provided, not towels. Hot water for showers, kitchen, wood-burner for winter. This house has a kitchen/lounge space. No wifi but 3/4G. We are aware of our water and electricity consumption, so would hope everyone who join us would be also. This is a fully equipped kitchen, time will be allowed during the morning routine for a volunteer to cook, ingredients will be provided and/or lunch prepared when the family/sanctuary routine permits.

The buildings are to be free from animal products as are sanctuary grounds, this is paramount !
One room of this house homes guinea pigs (outside house under construction).

No smoking inside houses or grounds or vaping
In all cases Workawayers are responsible for providing their own breakfast on their working days and days off and their meals on their days off. There are private spaces for individual food storage if you do not wish to community/group cook.

If invited to family home for meal, please help clean-up after meal.

Getting There

Limoges Bellegarde Airport, (LIG/LFBL)

Get Free Quote

CLOSEST AIRPORT is Limoges-Bellegarde.

CLOSEST TRAIN STATIONS are La Souterraine and Limoges :
-Gare des benedictins Limoges: Limoges Bénédictins. 4, place Maison Dieu 87036 Limoges
-
Gare SNCF La Souterraine: Place de la Gare, 23300 La Souterraine.

All are about 40 minutes away from us. Arrival on Monday/tuesday. No picking up, there are taxis and bus lines available around us it is up to you to get to the sanctuary (unless privately arranged) and to be here on time for introduction 10.30 to 12 noon, all paperwork and questions will take place for new workers.

The nearest town is 30 minutes away of a nice walk and includes: bus station, taxis & ambulances companies, doctors, bars, town hall, hair dresser, supermarket, bakeries, news agent, fire brigade...

Males & Females welcome

Couples accommodated

Families accommodated

Pets NOT allowed

Hours/days of work and days off to be arranged individually when you contact us and depending on your role/task/schedule/time of the year and weather.

We are a four persons family and work and live within a vegan sanctuary for rescued farm and companion animals. we have on average over 140 animals with us at any given time. Our children are 8 & 13 and are homeschooled. We expect people to join us that are honest in their approach to life, compassionates in their world views and hard working.

Our dream is to move further into the wild and away from population, so a similar passion is open heartedly welcomed. We would hope that you feel part of a team capable of functioning without the incessant needs of high maintenance.

We welcome hard working, self motivated individuals that can problem solve, and if a task is finished to move onto the next. We are surrounded by countryside, there are many walks and places to enjoy being in nature. ST PARDOUX lake is 15 away, so if you enjoy long bike rides, wild swimming or paddle boarding this will be of interest. There are also some quiet beaches.