Due to Danish tax and immigration policy, we can only offer free room and board for volunteers, who are EU citizens or have a working holiday visa.
Several of the positions require good English skills and a long term commitment. Volunteering for less than 2 months is only accepted in situations where Avnø needs special skills or has other special needs.
Avnø Oasis is always open to new volunteers with entrepreneurial spirits, who are highly motivated and ready to dedicate their energy and skills to realise the vision with practical work and communal involvement.
Our days take many colourful forms and are filled with a broad variety of activities (and unexpected events). Realizing a project of this size requires commitment, a variety of skills, practical work and communal involvement. It also offers rich possibilities for development of personal, practical, organisational, social and communal skills.
If you are eager to put your body, mind & soul in an intense combination of social interaction, research, experiment, design, practical tasks and the creation of a more sustainable model of life, we invite you to explore the pathways below and read more in our infopackage. Here you will also find a form to apply to be our volunteer.
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Great if you have skills, but we can also train you. Some areas we manage quite well – others somewhat inadequately due to lack of skills or lack of time (double or tripple roles)
With the general understanding that work is love in action, we usually don’t count hours rigidly. However the question about how many hours keeps being raised. The guideline of ESC (European Solidarity Corps) is that a full-time volunteer works approximately 35 hours per week.
We aim to find a healthy balance between work, social life and withdrawing to connect with ourselves or nature.
We’re in a nature reserve area, so we strongly recommend taking walks or bikerides in the area!
As a community, we sometimes sing, play games, watch a movie, sit by the fireplace or do other social activities. Other days we take time on our own. In your free time it is often possible to participate in some of Avnø højskole’s activities.
With the intention to co-create a more sustainable lifestyle, Avnø Oasis is a melting pot of people with different cultural backgrounds and skills ranging from ecovillage-design, permaculture, holistic nutrition, personal and spiritual development to entrepreneurship and sociocracy.
With 7 to 11 different nationalities around the table we mostly speak English.
Our community kitchen serves 3 daily meals prepared using macrobiotic principles.
All bedrooms have private bathrooms.
Usually volunteers stay for 3 to 12 months. If you are interested to join the kitchen group and want to acquire a profound knowledge of macrobiotic cooking it is recommended to spend a year volunteering in the kitchen. For people that have a particular skill that we need, we make the exception that they can also stay for a shorter period of time. There is also the possible to stay here as a part-time volunteer.
How to become a volunteer
We want to ensure that Avnø Oasis is right for you and that you can find your right place here.
The steps that works for most people are:
In our infopackage you may read more about how you can volunteer with us.
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