Creative Corners

Cost

Creative Corners is a registered Community Interest Company and Social Enterprise in the UK - registered number 05894409. By being a Community Interest Company this means we are required to re-invest any profits back into the communities in which we work. We charge a project contribution fee for volunteer placements which is used to pay the family for home stay accommodation, meals where listed, comprehensive travel insurance, airport collection and all the planning and support to help get you there. Creative Corners also donates US$50 for each volunteer to their project to either supply arts resources needed or to help in other ways. You can read more about Community Interest Companies at http://www.cicregulator.gov.uk/

As a UK based Not for Profit Company our prices are in British Pounds. Please use the currency converter to find out the cost in US$ or AU$ or any other currency. It is easy to pay online with any credit or debit card no matter where you are in the world with Paypal.

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Bolivia

2 weeks £395 (for specialised projects such as planting a garden or painting a mural)
One month £575
Two months £695
each additional month £195

Grandparent Getaway Program is priced at £695 for 5 weeks ( see project description for details of what is included)

Brazil

One month £850
Two months £1290
each additional month £490

Costa Rica

Community Arts Project in a stunning Beach town:

One month £750 (includes 3 meals a day with the family)
Two months £1095 (includes 3 meals a day with the family)
each additional month £400

The Cloud Forest School:

One month £850 (includes 2 meals a day with the family)
Two months £1290 (includes 2 meals a day with the family)
Three months £1730 (includes 2 meals a day with the family)
each additional month £490

Guatemala

Two weeks £495 (includes lunch Monday to Friday)

One month £755 (includes lunch Monday to Friday)

Two Months £1045 (includes lunch Monday to Friday)

each additional month £350

Peru

Two weeks £455 (Cusco Arts Haven)
One month £595
Two months £745
each additional month £250

Peru Arts Orphanage includes all organic meals and the costs are:

One month £895
Two months £1295
each additional month £495

What’s included

Careful project application and placement process
Joint collaboration with volunteer in project planning (lesson/workshop plans etc)
Airport collection (excluding Costa Rica and Guatemala projects)
Organised and pre-vetted accommodation in a local home stay or on site at project
Comprehensive Travel insurance (Please see document below)
Quality pre-departure information, visa advice
Advice from staff who have personal knowledge of the countries and accommodation.

What’s not included

Flights
Food (unless otherwise stated. Where breakfast is provided it will usually consist of bread, jam and tea)

You might be asking yourself why pay to volunteer?

By volunteering with an established organisation you can be reassured that you will be volunteering with a project that needs your help, you will be staying with a family that has been vetted and checked, you will have suitable insurance and you will have the opportunity to work with arts and travel professionals who have personally visited every project and can help you plan a creative project that will work for you and the children.

So where does the money go?

Creative Corners is a registered Community Interest Company and Social Enterprise in the UK. This means we are required to re-invest our profits back into the communities in which we work. No one but the projects will ever profit from Creative Corners.

Your Project fee is used to pay your family for your accommodation and breakfast, your travel insurance and airport collection. Creative Corners also donates US$50 for each volunteer which is used to supply arts resources needed on projects or to help in other ways.

We need to send 85 volunteers a year to cover administration costs after which 100% of profits per volunteer placement are distributed to the projects to provide further arts education resources.

Our Prices:

We aim to keep our prices low by working hard, but smart, keeping our overheads to an absolute minimum with no unnecessary spending on glossy brochures or advertising. We rely on word of mouth, free links and people believing in our projects.

We also don’t want to be huge, which is why we stay focused and specialised so to recruit the best volunteers for the job.

Most of all we want to make volunteering accessible to a wider audience – especially to the type of people we need and want to recruit – artists, teachers and creative people.

And unlike other organisations we do not pay ‘in-country co-ordinators’. Creative Corners is for a particular type of person who has the maturity to live and work away from home. We believe that the support of a host family / accommodation and project contact, along with an organised airport collection is more than enough.

Fundraising:

Why not use your skills to come up with a creative fundraising idea to pay for your project fee? Or look for an artists/teachers overseas professional development grant? Get creative, get fundraising and get going!

Please visit this link to Art Quest's page of International Funding possibilities to explore your funding options.

Artquest provides free information and advice for London's visual artists and craftspeople.

All Volunteers are covered under CareMed's Silver Insurance Policy and levels of cover can be seen in the below document.

*Prices as at 1 January 2009. All prices are subject to change without notice subject to foreign currency fluctuations.