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Help with community projects at an environmental education centre in Suffolk, UK

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  2024 

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  • Beschreibung

    Beschreibung

    Hi, my name's Sarah and I co-started this community project in 2007, and have been managing it (as a volunteer) ever since. It is an Environmental Education Centre in rural mid Suffolk, UK, run by local volunteers for a wider community of volunteers and students. The situation is very rural. Just 1.5 acres of old orchard in the middle of fields. We're now on Phase 2 of the heritage restoration project. We run practical vernacular courses in how to build with the clay under our feet and coppice trees from local woods. In the last six years we’ve trained over 250 in traditional timber framing - the ‘practice piece’ is a reinstated medieval building. Now we’re making our own hybrid daub insulation from locally dug clay and straw from the farm. We're doing this by hand, so no noisy machinery, plenty of time to listen to each other and the sounds of nature all around us.

    We need lots of volunteer help this summer to get our new education space closed in before next winter.
    Can you help? There are lots of skills to learn!

  • Arten von Hilfe und Lernmöglichkeiten

    Arten von Hilfe und Lernmöglichkeiten

    Hilfe bei Ökoprojekten
    Gartenarbeiten
    Heimwerker- und Bauarbeiten
  • UNO-Ziele für nachhaltige Entwicklung, die dieser Gastgeber verfolgt

    UNO-Ziele für nachhaltige Entwicklung, die dieser Gastgeber verfolgt

    UNO-Ziele
    Keine Armut
    Kein Hunger
    Gesundheit und Wohlergehen
    Hochwertige Bildung
    Geschlechtergleichstellung
    Sauberes Wasser und Sanitärversorgung
    Bezahlbare und saubere Energie
    Menschenwürdige Arbeit und Wirtschaftswachstum
    Industrie, Innovation und Infrastruktur
    Weniger Ungleichheiten
    Nachhaltige Städte und Gemeinden
    Nachhaltige Konsum- und Produktionsmuster sicherstellen
    Maßnahmen zum Klimaschutz
    Leben unter Wasser
    Leben an Land
    Frieden, Gerechtigkeit und starke Institutionen
    Partnerschaften zur Erreichung der Ziele
  • Kultureller Austausch und Lernmöglichkeiten

    Kultureller Austausch und Lernmöglichkeiten

    Learn about traditional low tech methods of building with earth and trees.
    Meet and mix with local volunteers.
    Explore the rich medieval history of Suffolk - we have a bicycle you can borrow.
    Visit the historic wool towns of Lavenham and Kersey.
    Learn about cooking on a wood stove and using seasonal, local produce.

  • Arbeit

    Arbeit

    Natural building experience - reinstating a heritage building.
    Help needed to make the Light Straw Clay insulation material - to dig clay and convert it into a clay slip, mix with straw and pack into timber frame to insulate the oak timber frame we have been making for the last 5 years!

    It is the reinstatement of a Suffolk Long House. First built in 1580. Last lived in 1930. Fell over 1960. Nature reclaimed the building and it disappeared under ivy, brambles and trees started to grow in it! We obtained planning permission in 2017 to reinstate it and have been converting local trees into a building ever since! Over 250 volunteers and trainees have learnt traditional carpentry to make and raise the frame.

    When the building is complete we will use it for more environmental education, and be able to accommodate people like yourselves in it.
    We may also need help gardening in polytunnel, raised beds and making compost. We are an organic Permaculture Centre.
    we may need help hedge sculpting!

  • Gesprochene Sprachen

    Englisch: Fließend

  • Unterkunft

    Unterkunft

    Bedroom in detached house in village adjacent to project (about 6 miles). Very rural. Some public transport (bus) Mondays to Saturdays, (none on Sundays). Nearest shop is five miles away. Pub and fish and chip shop within walking distance. Shared kitchen and bathroom. Also shared fridge, gas hob and washing machine. Self catering with some seasonal homegrown fruit and vegetables and basic staples provided. Pans, plates, cutlery also provided.
    Small woodland garden with paved areas back and front of house.
    Part time cat. Strictly NO smokers or drinkers.

  • Was noch ...

    Was noch ...

    Great woodland walks and cycling. Historic buildings to view in local towns. Some buses but not Sundays. Trains from Needham Market. Suffolk coast approx 40 mins drive.
    The project is an established Permaculture Land Centre which is intentionally off grid. We have learnt a lot about rain water management and small scale energy generation. Also about compost toilets and wood processing. We are working towards preservation of orchard fruit in traditional Kilmer jars and dehydration. Also fermented foods such as sauerkraut and pesto from wild garlic!

  • Etwas mehr Information

    Etwas mehr Information

    • Internet Zugang

    • Eingeschränkter Internet Zugang

      Eingeschränkter Internet Zugang

    • Wir besitzen Tiere

    • Wir sind Raucher

    • Familien möglich

  • Kapazität - wie viele Workawayer maximal

    Kapazität - wie viele Workawayer maximal

    mehr als zwei

  • ...

    Arbeitszeiten

    4-5 hours a day (including breaks), 5 days a week

Gastgeber Ref-Nr.: 178895546231

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