Join the family fun in the English countryside near Malmesbury, UK

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  Description

  We are a family of 6. We live in South West England in the Cotswolds in a beautiful old farmhouse in a village surrounded by lovely countryside. We have an en suite double bedroom for a lovely workaway to join in our family fun. Looking for someone friendly and capable to be an extra pair of hands around the house for light housework. We have kids who are 12, 10, 3 and a baby that arrived end of March 2026!

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  Types of help and learning opportunities

  Creating/ Cooking family meals

  Help around the house
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  Interests

  

  DIY & crafts

  

  Books

  

  Art & design

  

  Languages

  

  Drawing & painting

  

  Animals

  

  Yoga / Wellness

  

  Nature

  

  Camping

  

  Mountain

  

  Dancing

  

  Outdoor activities

  

  Cycling
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  Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

  We are open, warm and welcoming, and make a huge effort to integrate workaway's into our lives. We are happy to teach English to anyone that would like to improve. We share meals together, and love having interesting conversations at dinner time and playing card games or board games with my two older boys. We hope to learn lots about different cultures, my children are especially fascinated by different countries, cultures, food and languages from around the world.

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  Au Pair Help

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  Projects involving children

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  Help

  We are looking for a workawayer to join our family to help with the following jobs:
  
  Washing up after meals
  Hoovering / tidying the house
  Tidying away toys
  Cooking a meal every now and again if you enjoy cooking!!
  
  We have a baby who arrived end of March 2026 so would love someone warm, friendly and fun loving to join in our family chaos. We live in the countryside, it is very rural! It needs to be someone really comfortable with countryside life. You would have use of a bicycle and electric bike (takes 30 mins to cycle to Malmesbury the nearest town) and 15 minutes to a couple of small (mainly residential) villages.

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  Languages

  Languages spoken
  English: Fluent
  Spanish: Beginner

  This host offers a language exchange
  I used to be fairly fluent in Spanish - and would love the chance to learn / speak Spanish again and exchange with English.
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  Accommodation

  In a large ensuite double bedroom at the top of the house, the bathroom has a shower.
  
  We love cooking and sharing big family meals. We'd love our workawayer to be part of our family meals, especially family dinners, helping with the cooking if you enjoy it! We always have a well stocked fridge that would be shared with the workawayer. We also have a very spacious garden with a wood fired sauna.

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  What else ...

  We would provide a bicycle for our workaway to use, there are buses to other local villages. Walking / cycling distance to a tiny village with a village shop and pub - but for other larger towns you need to get a bus or train. There are plenty of amazing places to explore nearby, cotswold market towns like Cirencester, Tetbury and Malmesbury, as well as larger cities like Bath and Bristol. We have Kemble train station 10 mins drive from the house and it takes 1.15 hours to get to London by train. We are situated in a small village and if you can't drive this can be isolating for some people so please only get in touch if you really are happy to be living in the countryside!

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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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  Can host digital nomads

  We have good internet so it would be possible to do remote work whilst staying with us too

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  How many Workawayers can stay?

  Two

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  My animals / pets

  Thunder & Ori (2 years)

  Two lovely brothers! Who are very affectionate and part of the family

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