Join a family and help with daily activities in East Sussex, UK

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  Description

  We're a family of four living in a beautiful historic home with an extraordinary garden: part cultivated, part re-wilded. We're an entrepreneur and an artist parents homeschooling two wonderful kids. Our days are creative, flexible and active.
  We are a nature and crafts-based family and we love to make things with our hands, to mix herbs, dye clothes with natural dyes, paint and draw, cook, etc. We're looking for someone to help us simplify life so we can focus on what matters: our work, our health, our children and our home.
  
  We have hosted au pairs and workaway-ers before and we have a clear idea of scenario would best fit for our family.
  
  We are not looking for someone to entertain our children, we are looking for someone to support their interests, involve them into daily live, foster their interests and mentor them in learning new thins. Food and cooking is an integral part of our life so the ideal candidate would be comfortable cooking healthy and nutritious meals for the whole family, with or without the children.
  
  Overall, we would just love to welcome someone into our family and home to become part of the family rhythm, splitting time between being with the kids, cooking, gardening and helping us with the house.

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  Types of help and learning opportunities

  Gardening

  Babysitting and creative play

  Creating/ Cooking family meals

  Help around the house
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  Interests

  

  Writing

  

  Carpentry

  

  Architecture

  

  Cooking & food

  

  Gardening

  

  Languages

  

  Music

  

  DIY & crafts

  

  Nature

  

  Camping

  

  Beach

  

  Mountain

  

  Outdoor activities

  

  Hiking

  

  Cycling

  

  Adventure sports
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  Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

  Live in and help care for a 500+ year-old building of historical significance.
  
  Join our family and explore a more alternative way of being and living, witnessing home educating our children and living a home and connection-centric life.
  
  Develop a deeper connection to the British countryside, slower rhythms and what it means to truly live in a place rather than visit it.

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  Help

  Spending quality time with our children - fostering their interests and mentoring them in learning new things.
  
  Cooking healthy meals for the whole family.
  
  Helping with light housekeeping work.
  
  We do not own a TV and prefer to be together, outside or to work on creative projects. We ask that anyone joining us keeps their phone away while with the family as we are trying to raise the children with minimal technology around. The right person would be more interested being in nature and doing crafts, than being on their phone.

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  Languages spoken

  Bulgarian: Fluent
  English: Fluent
  French: Beginner

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  Accommodation

  Private room and private bathroom in our historic home
  All meals (delicious, healthy home cooking)
  Genuine family atmosphere
  Beautiful countryside setting with garden access
  Flexibility to explore the area
  Learning opportunity in a creative household
  Real connection with an interesting family

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  What else ...

  We are a 20 min drive from Lewis, 40 mins from Brighton. 1h on the train to London. Close to the Downs and the coast and there are so many beautiful walks and historical buildings around.

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  A little more information

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    Internet access

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    Limited internet access

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    We have pets

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    We are smokers

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    Can host families

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  Space for parking camper vans

  This host can provide space for campervans.

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  How many Workawayers can stay?

  One

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  My animals / pets

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