Volunteering

We have been hosting volunteers at the centre for many years through our involvement with WWOOF (World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms), HelpX (Help Exchange) and WorldPackers. We also welcome volunteers who have stayed here as guests, offering lodging and food in return for 5 hours work a day 5 days a week. Long term is possible with a trial stay.

The activities involved ranges from help in the kitchen, gardening and general maintenance through to housekeeping. Also social media or simple office jobs are sometimes available.

If you are interested in volunteering at EarthSpirit, please contact us by email only to: francoise@earthspirit-centre.co.uk 

You can give us details of any relevant experience, particular areas of interests, and the dates you are hoping to volunteer. And a photo please. Note that people from outside the EU legally need a work visa for volunteering or stay maximum 30 days.

Agreement and Information for volunteers

The EarthSpirit Centre is a holistic retreat centre near Glastonbury in Somerset. We host retreats for a wide variety of groups, usually within the fields of bodywork, healing, shamanism, meditation, counselling, tantra and dance.

We welcome volunteers and are delighted that you are interested in joining us. There are a few points we would like to clarify with you in advance:-

* Volunteers agree to do a minimum of 25 hours work per week. Shifts are agreed each Monday morning. Volunteering are generally done in one of four areas; site, garden, kitchen and housekeeping. You are welcome to indicate a preference if you have a skill or interest in one of those areas and we will try and find work for you in that one.
* Accommodation will be in either a room or a caravan. Your accommodation may be changed, depending on the needs of visiting groups, but we will seek to minimise this.
* Your stay with us is temporary and casual. You are free to leave at any time but we do ask for as much notice as you can give if you do need to leave. Likewise we reserve the right to ask you to leave at any time. We will seek to give you adequate time to make arrangements for your departure.
* We will ask longer stay volunteers to do a trial period. Generally no volunteers stay for more than three months.
* Food is vegetarian and is usually prepared by our kitchen staff who will set meal times. These are often reliant on group eating times and can vary. Also meals will be plated up for you during busy times.
* Please do not come if you have a complicated diet. We can do gluten and dairy free or vegan but nothing more.
*We will arrange your dates (arrival and departure dates) before you come. Unless an extension of your stay is agreed we ask you to make early arrangements.

Check Travel Information on our Getting Here page

With best wishes,

Françoise, Volunteer Co-ordinator