Join our queer non-profit project and explore Úbeda, Spain

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  Description

  Hello
  
  We are currently looking for workawayers to help out in our garden and help maintain our property - minimum 2-3 months commitment.
  
  NOTE: IF YOU ARE APPLYING FOR HOUSE/PET SITTING, YOU WILL NEED TO HAVE A CAR (OR AT THE VERY LEAST BE ABLE TO DRIVE IN SPAIN)
  
  We are looking for the following tasks:
  -Gardening (maintaining a 9,000 sqm garden and watering)
  -DIY (small repairs and maintenance)
  -Cleaning and tidying
  
  Our ideal workawayer will be:
  -Mature
  -Independent and proactive
  -Hardworking
  -Creative in decorating
  -Tolerant and respectful - to humans and especially animals
  
  You will be sharing the house with visiting artists, but you will have a private room with an en-suite bathroom. The kitchen and living room will be shared.
  
  In exchange for your time and help (20 hours a week), we will supply you with free accommodation.
  We are now looking particularly for someone who can commit 3 months . If this all goes well, we can consider long term.
  
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  We are a creative couple from London, well technically one Austrian and one British, and are working on our dream of creating a not-for-profit artistic centre here. One of us is a furniture designer and the other a writer. We speak English, German and Spanish, and a little bit of all sorts of other languages, as we've travelled extensively.
  
  We run a vegetarian/vegan household, have four puppies and one cat.
  
  We are located in the middle of the Sea of Olives with no neighbours for miles, but we are by a main road (so it can get quite noisy sometimes) just outside Úbeda, a UNESCO world heritage site, which is only 10 minutes by car.
  
  The whole area offers cultural activities, as well as plenty of options to explore nature in the two national parks nearby. We're also pretty close to Granada and the coast.
  
  We are not near public transport, but we can help with local transport when we are available. We will also arrange at least two weekly trips into town for all your shopping needs. Walking to Úbeda up a steep hill would take about 1.5 hours.

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  Types of help and learning opportunities

  Gardening

  DIY and building projects

  Help around the house

  General Maintenance

  House & pet sitting
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  Interests

  

  Charity work

  

  Pets

  

  Culture

  

  LGBTQ

  

  Politics / Social justice

  

  Vegetarian or vegan
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  UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve

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  What's this?
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  Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

  You will potentially get to interact with our visiting artists from different countries and cultures, and enjoy five of the cutest dogs ever.

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  Help

  Help at our queer non-profit art residency and enjoy the sun and creative living.
  
  We're looking for volunteers to take on one of the following tasks:
  
  * Gardening/DIY - We have about 9000 sqm of Mediterranean gardens that need to be maintained, as well as general maintenance, DIY and and some painting and decorating.
  
  * Cleaning - We have two large buildings with 20+ rooms that need regular cleaning and maintaining.
  
  The overall help will be no more than 20 hours per week. You're free to do whatever you like in your free time.

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  Languages spoken

  German: Fluent
  English: Fluent
  Spanish: Intermediate

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  Accommodation

  We can offer you a private room with its own shower and toilet, access to shared kitchen, as well as loads of space to do things and access to a swimming pool at set times.

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  What else ...

  Úbeda (our nearest town - 10min by car) is a UNESCO world heritage site and the whole area offers cultural activities, as well as plenty of options to explore nature in the two national parks nearby. We're also pretty close to Granada and the coast.

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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 are digital nomad friendly. Used to be ourselves for several years. Internet is pretty good and stable, but obviously, sometimes there might be off times.

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  Space for parking camper vans

  Yes, we can accommodate vans and have had several people staying here with their vans. There's plenty of space to park next to the building.

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  Can possibly accept pets

  Do note that we have four (+1) puppies, a cat and there are a lot of wild animals on the premises (such as snakes, lizards, owls, birds, etc.)

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  How many Workawayers can stay?

  Two

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  My animals / pets

  Strauss

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