Volunteering at Rubha Phoil

If you’re looking for a way to get to know Rubha Phoil, start your journey into nature connection and contribute to keep our community running, you’ve come to the right place!

Our preference is to welcome people as full members of our community and team. After all being a community is our long term aim. The community is our home and a community grows best slowly.  Therefore full members need to stay for at least a month or preferably longer. On average, the integration process into the team takes a month as it is a rich learning journey and is a big investment from our part.  Also for you to fully benefit from that experience it is better to stay longer and experience it deeper.

Skills We Are Looking For
A Few Useful Tips
The Application Process
Other Ways to Connect


Skills We Are Looking For

Everyone has something unique to bring to the table. We’d love to hear about your skills! There’s a few ongoing tasks on Rubha Phoil. If you have experience with any of these topics or want to learn more about them, that’s a big bonus for us.

  • Fixing and Building Things. There is know how support available, but this person would need to have experience working with tools and project managing.
  • Social Media and PR. Someone with experience in sharing information, creating content and crowdfunding.
  • Office Work. Someone with experience in doing paperwork, emails, excel sheets, phone calls, funding applications.
  • Project Management. Someone with experience in managing a small business including customer facing interactions.
  • Web Development. Someone with experience in wordpress and woocommerce.
  • Cooking. Someone with experience in stock managing and taking a lead in vegan cooking. We normally take turns to cook, but this person would manage the system, inspire and help people to select a divers and healthy menu. Vegan cooking skills are essential.
  • Gardening and Growing Food. Training is available, but some experience is essential. Opportunity for someone wanting to setup a CSA/market garden. We are offering the right person/s access to long term agreements and the opportunity to establish a CSA/market gardening business. The enterprise would sit alongside our existing enterprises and would need to work together in furthering the community goals of self sufficiency and education. For the right person existing orchards, herb gardens, polytunnels, aquaponics system and forest garden could be incorporated into the enterprise.

We would like to know that you already have some connection to nature. If you want to, you can Join our program on the Virtual Village here.


A Few Useful Tips

  • Our community is not an average tourist destination. It is a home as well as a learning centre and a warm welcoming community. Please ask yourself if you are coming to us for the right reasons.
  • Accommodation can be paid for through a combination of £s and or work-exchange on a personal agreement basis. A £-less exchange is possible, though is usually reserved for longer visits.
  • It is good to know this summary of ‘rules or conduct agreement of the community‘, before you decide to apply to visit or fill in the form.
  • We want our home to be a safe space for everyone. Including for children and for people who are healing or are more vulnerable in other aspects. This means that we have a rigorous selection process. We ask for understanding and patience in answering our many questions.
  • We get a lot of applications. More and more people are looking for what we have to offer. We can’t welcome everyone for a trial visit. Please understand our need and our desire to do a pre-selection. We’d like to give you a truly warm welcome when you come for your visit. This selection process helps us to increase the chances for a pleasant experience for the benefit of all of us.

If you want to know what an average day looks like on Rubha Phoil, this link leads to a blog post written by Tyler when he was one of our team members.

Or feel free to watch this short video. (https://www.youtube.com/embed/i6FYONphSjI?si=YsJPTeDTVJaMmcXc)


The Application process:

Step 1: Fill in form below.
Step 2: A zoom or phone call
Step 3: Join Virtual Village
Step 4: Read our policies and step into a written and signed agreement with us

Please introduce yourself, feel free to be creative and share your dreams
We’ll reply soon with some more questions no doubt.

Let’s start a conversation.

If you want to apply to start the process, please fill in this google form
(if the form doesn’t work for you, you can click here: https://forms.gle/ihBC7ofKZC9XqogCA)

When submitting, google will ask you the robot questions….
don’t forget to do them to submit. You should get a confirmation message if all goes well.

(this form is not needed for short/day visits)


Other Ways to Connect

Paid Positions

(Permaculture) Student

Short Stays (Less Than a Month)

Day Visits and Zoom Conversations