Remember to bring-List!
- All volunteers need to bring cover duvet (täcke) or sleeping bag/blankets. Everybody also need to bring sheets, pillow and pillow case (bring sheets also if you choose to sleep in a sleeping bag). Please respect this! Unfortunately we don’t have enough sheets, duvets and laundry time during the intense festival seasons. Please let us know in advance if you are traveling far and need support in this, we have a limited amount of duvets, pillows and sheets for rent.
- Towels, warm cloths, working cloths which can be used for any kind of work outside and inside when its dirty/warm/cold/rainy!
- Bring white clothes for the opening ceremony at the No Mind Festival!
- If you want to use you can bring: yoga mat, ear plugs , padlock (hänglås), flashlight (torch), waterbottle, shoes for inside & outside which are easy to slip in and out of, etc.
- Also, welcome to bring instruments to play on and material for decoration and the creativity tent: for example textiles, pillows, pillow cases, paint, glue, pens, cloths, brushes, needles, toys, tools, yarn, jewelery, porcelain, pearls, mirrors, magazines; all kinds of gadgets which want a new life, are welcome!
Good to know prior to your arrival
Traveling Information
www.angsbacka.com/about-angsbacka/practical-information/directions/
The Check-In
The Check-In for volunteers is in the afternoon 16-18 o’clock before dinner when you arrive the first day at the beginning of each camp period/alternative arrival day.
The Welcome Meeting
The Welcome Meeting is in the evening after dinner the first evening of the camp period/alternative arrival day. In the check-in and welcome meeting you will get your bed and information about the time to come, you will be introduced to Ängsbacka, meet everyone and connect with your work group coordinator!
On the last day of each camp period we have activities together during the morning, we eat lunch together and you depart after lunch.
If you come on the arrival dates and leave on the departure dates mapped out in our volunteer information, you greatly support our practical organization and energetic group dynamics, thank you!
Accommodation
All volunteers sleep in bunk beds in dormitories 5-25 people. The specifics about your room/dormitory you will get when you arrive at Ängsbacka. Please don’t lay more than 1 person in each bed, cause we don’t want them to break and you or your neighbor to get hurt. If you apply late and all dormitories are full, we will let you know in advance so you can bring a tent.
Location
This year we have arranged it so that all dormitories for summer volunteers during “period 1” and “period 2” is outside of Ängsbacka at 1-2 km walking distance. This is to support the volunteers’ possibility to rest during the night and not be bothered by the intense energy, late night discos and early morning meditations in the rooms above and around. We also aim to create a more stable living situation for the volunteers where you can have your space settled instead of moving in and out and here and there dependent on what festival is going on.
This organization also makes it possible to rent out the dormitories at Ängsbacka, which supports Ängsbacka’s focus on creating a stabilized financial situation. All volunteer/participant visitors can rent them to a fixed price, connect with booking@angsbacka.se / 0553-10035 for more information about that. During the precamp everyone can stay at Ängsbacka. During the summer there will be some more cupboards and lockers at Ängsbacka assigned to the volunteers to put your things on during the day.
Live in a tent, a caravan or elsewhere
If you would like to bring your own tent or caravan or arrange your accommodation in the village or elsewhere, you are most welcome to do so. Let us know in advance if you don’t need your dormitory bed or if you would like to borrow a tent from Ängsbacka. Please bring your own tent if you would like to sleep independently and/or need private space during your stay!
Practical good-to-knows at Ängsbacka
- All volunteer info can be found on an Info Board.
- Every morning during the camp periods we have a morning meeting at 9 o’clock where we all meet to spend some juicy time together and get information about our joined mission. Sometimes we work with our work group sometimes we help out in other areas. If you want to join what we do, please join the morning gathering!
- Never light any FIRE in the Barn or else where No candles, incenses, fabrics in contact with lamps/spotlights etc, because it is a fire risk. Thank you!
- We are many people at Ängsbacka so Take Care of Yourself and your things. Rest, walk in the forest, eat well, relax and reflect ♥
- Please Wash & Disinfect your Hands before taking food and after making the dishes.
- Cup Awareness: Always bring cups, plates etc. to the Dish Temple and wash them carefully, since the machines don’t clean – only disinfect.
- Access to Yellow House is only for the people who live or work there. Some areas are private for community and all-year-staff only, they are marked with signs.
- The Internet Café in the Yellow House is open for all volunteers. You can take your laptop to Ängsbacka and use the wifi available in the internet café, but be aware that we dont have any lockers, you keep your computer and other valuables unlocked with your things in your room.
- Mail (post) for volunteers is found in a box in the internet café.
- Volunteers can Wash Clothes in the washing machine in the Annex. This machine is busy though, so if possible bring as much cloths as you need without washing during your stay.
- Water Bottles are allowed in the workshop rooms, no cups or plates this to avoid messy and destroyed floors and interiors.
- Pillows, blankets, mattresses and meditation chairs need to stay inside their Workshop Spaces.
- Bathroom Awarenees: Please bring all your personal things with you from the bathroom -it makes it easier to keep it clean.
- Tool Awareness: if you borrow tools for your work – please return them to the tool shed immediately after using them so others can use them and they dont get left behind and lost.
- Shoe Awareness: Please put your shoes on the shelves so that people cleaning have an easier job.
- Phone Awareness: Please use your mobile phone consciously. We ask you to take a walk outside the festival area to use it, if not needed for your work tasks. Respect that the phones in the office are for Ängsbacka work related calls.
- Sleeping Awareness: Keep the bed rooms quiet so people can sleep when they need to. Quiet time on the whole site between 23-07 o’clock, during this time no loud music or other disturbing noises if it is not part of the planned program.
- Find lost belongings in the Lost & Found. Valuables such as watch/wallet/jewlery/phone is found in the office.
- Smoking only takes place in the Smoking Temple.
- Information about Session-Givers is put up on the information board. The session-givers on the board are the only ones who can charge for sessions at Ängsbacka, because Ängsbacka wants to ensure its quality and give the people who live in the area the possibility of ‘making a living’. If you are here for a long time and want to give sessions, talk to Pyret & Sanna.
- All volunteers are welcome to connect with our Volunteer Workshop Program coordinators to contribute to the camp program, as a way to give your gift, develop your skills and market yourselves. You find their contact information next to the festival & camp information in this e-mail.
- The Volunteer Healing Circle offers free sessions to volunteers and staff during the camps. They will set up their booking system on a board next to the healing circle. If you have already enjoyed a free massage from the volunteer healing circle be sure to give precedence to those who have not.
- The Café Attic is a space for volunteers opening during the summer festivals. We will build it up, arrange it and keep it tidy together. It is not permitted to sleep on the attic for security reasons.
- Coaching for Transformation in our Everyday Life: During our stay at Ängsbacka we have the luxury of having a coaching crew around to support our life experience. Whenever you would like to resolve an issue or explore who you are, take the chance to contact them. To book a meeting, find their information on the info board. Ängsbacka offering free individual coaching to volunteers, co-ordinators and staff is one of the ways we want to show our support to and appreciation of you! The volunteer coaches welcome you as you are and you are invited to explore any curiosity or challenge you might experience in your Ängsbacka work or in your personal life.
- Special Diets: Ängsbacka serves vegetarian food. During camps and festivals there will be a buffet served for breakfast, lunch and dinner. We are able to cater for the following special diets: vegan, gluten intolerance, lactose intolerance and nut allergy. Let us know before your arrival if you have such a need. All other special dietary needs, you need to tend to yourself buy picking out what is for you. Ask us if you have any questions around this.
- If you get sick: Talk to your work group coordinator and we will make arrangements for you. For some periods there will be doctors and nurses at Ängsbacka. You also have the local Vårdcentral in Molkom: 0553 – 419 00. Call before you visit.
- Travel Information: There is travel information on the web page: www.angsbacka.com/about-angsbacka/practical-information/directions/
- Car pooling (samåkning): If you are driving and have space left in your car or if you need a ride, please sign in to the car sharing list at our webpage: www.angsbacka.com/about-angsbacka/practical-information/travel-together/
- Cars can be parked on the Parking lot arranged for festival use, you will be informed when you arrive.
- Language: We speak some Swedish at Ängsbacka, but meetings and workshops are held in English. What ever language you speak, you are welcome : )
- Universal & Ängbacka Environment Awareness: We ask that you look after the property of Ängsbacka and the earth’s resources. Please use the heat and water sparingly, use food, raw materials and products with awareness of how we can reduce its costs and environmental impact. Contribute to the beauty and cocreativity around us by washing clothes together, turning off lights, putting food waste in the compost and recycle bins, finishing what you have started, and making it beautiful and clean around you, a touch better than you found it.
- Ask somebody to Guide you around Ängsbacka if you want and need that!
- Inspire and co-create together, explore yourself, share your gifts and serve in the name of truth and transformation!
If you have any questions → Talk to each other, us and your group coordinator!
