Bona Fides Association and Houens Odde Internationale Spejdercenter are looking for Polish volunteers (18-30yo) for a 1-year ESC project starting in August 2026 in Denmark.
Place: Houens Odde International Scout Centre (7km from Kolding), Denmark
Dates: 01.8.2026 – 31.7.2027
Duration: 12 months
About the organisation
Houens Odde International Scout Centre is the main education and training centre of KFUM-spejderne I Danmark. A staff of permanent employees together with Danish and international volunteers run the centre .This staff takes care of the daily work at the centre.
The centre also has around 120 Danish voluntary scouts from all scout organizations in Denmark. This staff is called the Houmen, and they are arranging scout activities at the centre, like summer camps, work camps, and other scout events, that take place during weekends and holidays.
Houens Odde Spejdercenter has been working with children and youth for the last 50 years, and through this time, we have constantly tried to develop our activities for this group. For the last 20 years, it has been with a priority on international understanding and meeting between people from different cultures and countries.
One of our main priorities is to educate through activities – and the main activities are nature and environment. The guests at the centre are scouts, schools and kinder gardens. Our primary target group is children in the age from 8 to 16. The centre has each year around 30.000 overnights on this account. The scouts mainly come during the summer holidays.
Work Description
Jobs for volunteers during the centre camp period: Often the centre camps start in the end of June and ends in the middle of August. During these weeks you will be a member of the Danish and international voluntary Houmen staff. This staff takes care of different activities for the scout groups, who are on the centre camp. The functions can be: sailing activities, old Danish handicraft activities, help planning the different activities of the week, working in the tractor team, or cooking for the staff.
During the 4 weeks of summer camp, Houens Odde often have from between 400-600 scouts per week. For more information look at: http://houensoddespejdercenter.dk/en/summer-camps/
As a volunteer outside the centre camp season, you will be a part of a staff mixed between volunteers (6 volunteers) and permanent staff (8 staff members). The work of the centre will be coordinated once a week on the staff meeting.
Some of the things will be more routine work than others. – But the staff’s most important task is to provide good experiences, quality activities, and good service to our guests.
Jobs for volunteers, outside the centre camp period, are many and different.
The jobs at the centre are divided into:
• Daily jobs
• Monthly jobs
• Ad hoc jobs
• Volunteer project
The daily jobs need to be done every day, and they can be:
• garbage round
• toilet check and cleaning
• buying food for the office canteen
• deliver drinks to the guest canteens
The monthly jobs need to be done, depending on the season, once or twice a month.
• They can be:
• building checks
• checking and cleaning tractors/cars
• grass cutting
• cleaning different workshops
The ad hoc jobs are very different. They come day by day, hour by hour. Some can be
planned; others are not possible to plan. They can be:
• doing activities for our customers (scouts, school groups, kinder gardens, companies)
• kitchen duties (cooking, cleaning, dish washing)
• helping janitor with different maintenance job at the centre
• putting up tents for costumers
• participating as a staff member in our scout summer camps or other scout events
• participating in different volunteer arrangements together with our Danish scout volunteers
The Volunteer Project:
As a volunteer, you also have the possibility of making your own project. This is a very good chance for the volunteer to make something that reflects his/hers interests and skills. The project must be for the use and fun of the costumers at the centre. We prefer that the project is for the benefit of nature and environment of our centre. The project must also make our costumers aware of the ESC and the international outlet
of the centre.
Most days will start 9 and end at 15. Then there will be kitchen duties some evenings and sometimes there will be late activities during the week and during the weekend.
Download the INFOPACK for more information
Application
To apply please also send your CV and a motivation letter (in English) to mariachiara@bonafides.pl and anna@bonafides.pl
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