Join our team on our sustainable horse and animal rescue centre in Tenerife 2022 🐴💜

Tenerife Horse Rescue – Update March 2023 – Tenerife Horse Rescue, Volunteer run sustainable animal sanctuary has a position available for a long-term, live-in volunteer with a stipend/ bonus. We are looking for an office manager. An enthusiastic, animal-loving person with experience managing a group of volunteers to help me manage our fast-paced, animal-full office team. See contact details below to learn more.

We are a hard-working group, “organised chaos” we call it.

Teams of people working with animals/ building/ office/ garden etc.

We are always looking for like-minded people to change their lives and join our team and help us grow the sanctuary (we just bought some more land).

Right now we have space for general helpers with animal care/ sorting animal food donations/ making compost/ No experience is needed, just passion and hard-working team ethic. We also have last-minute space for someone to manage our Instagram account ( must know how to use Instagram and have a good phone for this position).

Builders are also always welcome 🙂

Minimum of 1-month stay but no maximum, some of our family have been here 3 years already!

Benefits

Please see we are a registered animal charity and are 100% self-funded and non-profit building up.

We provide VERY rustic accommodation on our sustainable Finca. Beautiful area, has amazing weather and is close to the sea. Lovely location and many of our people have been here for up to 2 years already. But please note you will live on-site in a community, and the accommodation is far from glamorous. We don’t have modern luxuries, even our washing is done on a bicycle washing machine. But what we do have is lovely people, great food ( we eat all freegan ) and an amazing project.

Requirements

You… MUST love animals and sustainability….. They are everywhere. This is a place for passion, good conversation, good food and creating something magical together. This is not a party place.
We provide the accommodation and all food ( not only the working days)
Starting as soon as possible and for minimum 3 months ( ideally longer if works well for both sides)

Join our team at our horse and animal rescue centre in Tenerife. Do you enjoy social media/ have basic experience with Instagram? Would you like to join our team as a voluntourist? Your role would be to manage our Instagram page, posts, reels, stories and help us to connect with people and grow our page. Also, show around occasionally visitors and influencers at the sanctuary.✌️

The volunteer exchange

Please see we are a registered animal charity and are 100% self-funded and non-profit building up.

We provide VERY rustic accommodation on our sustainable Finca. Beautiful area, amazing weather and close to the sea. Lovely location and many of our people have been here for up to 2 years already. But please note you will live on-site in a community, the accommodation is far from glamorous. We don’t have modern luxuries, even our washing is done on a bicycle washing machine. But what we do have is lovely people, great food (we eat all freegan) and an amazing project.

Requirements

You… MUST love animals….. They are everywhere 😉 and be willing to get dirty!

Benefits

We provide the accommodation and all food for 25hrs week working. ( Mon – Fri )
Starting as soon as possible and for a minimum 1 month (ideally longer if works well for both sides)

2021 announcement

We have an amazing opportunity for the right person. We are looking for a live-in volunteer at our horse sanctuary in Tenerife. In exchange for your help, we provide all food and accommodation for part-time working.

Description

We are a small sustainable horse and animal sanctuary run solely by volunteers and are looking for 1 experienced horse person to join our team. For the right person, the position can be long term to help us grow the sanctuary. ( many of our volunteers have been here 1 or 2 years and the previous weekend girl was here for 3 years, from the beginning). The role is for weekends only. To feed, pick up poo, pick out feet (all barefoot, so we have a strict foot care routine) and keep an eye on horses.

There are only around 15 hours a week of actual work but you would need to stay on-site during the weekends. Then you would have Mon-Fri free to explore, ride or work elsewhere if you wanted (occasionally we may ask for dinner feed on Fridays, 1/2 hour work).

Requisites

The role is perfect for someone who wants to experience something totally different, passionate about horses and open-minded to live in a community-style with VERY basic living. Back to the country. Applicants must love horses (obviously); be experienced or open-minded to positive reinforcement way of training and very different lifestyles for horses. We do not have grass, big paddocks and easy access to all vet supplies.

It is a different world with challenging animal welfare. This is why we are here to work as a team and bring these animals a better life. So it would not be suitable for people who are not open to different ways and “making the most of what we have”.

Accommodation

Everything on site revolves around the animals, they come first and humans second. So accommodation is in caves/caravan/wooden huts. We have a big community open-air kitchen where 25 of us use and are now in the process of signing for new land to build a big track system. We will also have a second community area and more volunteers soon.

About the Tenerife Horse Rescue

We are a horse and animal rescue centre in Tenerife, specialising in the rehabilitation of horses in a force freeway, R+ and barefoot. We create a natural, eco, environment for all of our animals to live peacefully for the remainder of their lives.

CONTACT DETAILS🔍📧

For more information, about the Officer Manager position check this link: https://www.idealist.org/en/nonprofit-job/797b27d83100493594279f8e302412e4-office-manager-tenerife-horse-rescue-abades

For volunteering, for more information, donations and other support, please use one of the following contacts:

Website  http://www.tenerifehorserescue.com/

FB page: https://www.facebook.com/tenerifehorserescue

This announcement was posted by Emma G. on our international FB volunteer group

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