Area: Languedoc

Our Chateau is a 7 bedroom home running activity holidays and occasionally offering B&B. It is run by Julia (with the help of Teg, my Border Collie dog) who enjoys welcoming volunteers to help with the many tasks such a big enterprise involves. During the autumn during some weeks we are running holiday courses and I will be looking for help with catering, kitchen work, cleaning and generally taking care of our guests who are mainly english speaking. Other weeks the work will be maintaining the house & garden. The house is mostly renovated but there are still some jobs inside the house to be done. Help is mostly needed with light painting and repairing. The gardens are in the process of being restored from the jungle that we found when we bought it 5 years ago. I am also looking for help this autumn with computer related tasks, copy writing and production of ads, video production for promoting the Chateau, photo archive scanning, etc!!

Area: Salt Spring Island

We are developing 5 acres on Salt Spring Island in beautiful British Columbia, Canada. We have done a lot of land clearing and now we want to build an organic garden (blue berries, fruit trees and vegetables), build rock walls do more landscaping more and put up several deer fences. We have comfortable accommodations with internet, satelite TV and unlimited North American long distance calling. We are a couple both in mid 50's and have a lot of energy and plans. No children. We live in a very beautiful area near the ocean and just above the best hiking trails on the island.

Area: toscana umbria border

hi there i am revising the need this coming summer as i will be busy elsewhere . but i will be looking to do work next year 2011 .many thanks martin

Area: Donegal

Family of three, mother and two sons. We live in a rural setting, close to Letterkenny and Derry surrounded by farmland and close to Lough Swilly. We have a large garden and plenty of room to host. You would have your own room and ideally blend into our fairly simple lifestyle. As i said we are a family of three, ! am 46, and my sons are 10 and 8 years, they live here most of the time but spend every other weekends with their dad. Interaction and good communication skills with kids would be an advantage. We have 2 cats so if your allergic it wouldn't work out and they have the run of the house also. I spent most of last year and so far this one too completing the renovations and extention to my home, so there are still little jobs to get done. I am an easy going very stable type of person, what you see is what you get, and i enjoy meeting new people. I have travelled some and lived in other countries also .so fairly wordly. If you are looking for somewhere to hang out for a while in a fresh and interesting location and have a good attitude towards work and communication then i think we should appeal. I trained as a ceramacist and was successfull with my own work, selling to stores all over ireland and USA, i put it on hold when i had my second son but now i am looking to get back to it. I have a studio at the back of my house why i plan to extend, so hopefully i will have a fully equiped ceramic studio on site also before the end of 2011. I am currently studying spanish and would like very much to develope my language skill, i can read spanish better than i can speak it, having someone to practice with eso seria fantastico.!!Language exchange is one of my main attractions for hosting. Gracias. Maria.

Area: Bay of Plenty

We are a farming family, have been milking 140 cows for the last 20 years. We wanted to do something different so sold the cows and bought 6 horses. We are now a riding school and a trail riding centre, also organizing horse camps at different times of the year to different places. We are also a small farmstay so keeping busy with that too. You get to help us with varied tasks from maintenance to horse work, to cleaning hostel( maintenance) and horsegear, also assisting in trail riding and camps. Our sons are all grown up with 2 still at home but next year they're off to uni. We have a panoramic view over the islands, ocean, hills and bush. We have a 9.1 m swimming pool for use in your free time in the summer and a river swimming hole 10 min walk way. We do NOT like smokers as some of us suffer from Asthma, so please, NON SMOKERS ONLY.( it also pollutes the air and your body and ours)