Growers
Growers is a digital platform and app connecting people to regenerative hosts, communities and off-grid projects across Portugal for stays, …
Volunteering & Social Impact
Where showing up makes the difference: REFOOD's meal-rescue shifts, Fruta Feia's food co-op, beach clean-ups with Brigada do Mar, and wildlife care at RIAS. Volunteers keep the work moving, and new hands are welcome.
Focus —
All focusesIntentional CommunitiesCooperatives & CollectivesTime Banking & Alternative EconomiesSocial PermacultureCommunity ResilienceVolunteering & Social ImpactEcovillageRetreat Center
Where —Projects in this focus
Lousitânea – Liga de Amigos da Serra da Lousã
Lousitânea is a non-profit association based in the schist village of Aigra Nova, Góis, dedicated to conserving and promoting the natural an…
Spirala Ecovillage
Spirala Ecovillage is a regenerative camping site and eco-hub in the Castelo Branco District of Portugal, offering community living, worksho…
Guardiãs da Natureza
Guardiãs da Natureza is a national network of women acting as local catalysts for ecosystem regeneration, biodiversity conservation and sust…
ATO — Associação Terras de Ourondo (Terra Divina)
ATO — Associação Terras de Ourondo runs retreats, artistic performances, workshops and an itinerant clown school at Terra Divina, in Ourondo…
CooLabora
CooLabora is a social intervention cooperative based in Covilhã, Portugal, active for 18 years in promoting gender equality, combating domes…
Rewild the Future
Rewild the Future is an off-grid community and education hub in a forest valley in central Portugal, focused on ecological restoration, Mont…
Folha Verde / Benfeita Ecozone
Folha Verde is a bilingual natural education project and intentional eco-community of over 270 people nestled in the mountains of Benfeita, …
Loural Ecovillage
Loural Ecovillage is a sustainable community and retreat centre located in Colmeal, Góis, Portugal, working towards food and energy self-suf…
Ananda Kalyani
Ananda Kalyani is an intentional community and Master Unit located in the Serra da Estrela region of central Portugal, founded in 2010 acros…
Live With Earth
Live With Earth is a Portuguese non-profit association active since 2012 and formally founded in 2017, based at the Eco Campus Torres Vedras…
Vida em Transição
Vida em Transição is a family-run eco-project nestled in the village of Esculca, Serra do Açor, central Portugal, dedicated to conscious liv…
Living the Life Portugal
Living the Life Portugal is a family-run quinta near Figueiró dos Vinhos where Tom, Ros, and their children share their home, skills, and kn…
Volunteering in Portugal
Conservation associations, farms, food co-ops and wildlife centres often depend on unpaid hours and take volunteers, and for several of them it is not a nice extra but the reason the work happens at all.
The commitment varies more than the subject does. RIAS needs regular shifts at its wildlife centre in Olhão. Quercus, MONTIS and VERDE run field days you can join once. Keela Permaculture Farm and Quinta do Vale da Páscoa host longer stays in exchange for work, and Brigada do Mar cleans coastline in short intensive campaigns.
Ask what is actually needed before offering; the honest answer is often less romantic and more useful than expected. Related focuses: community resilience and habitat restoration; dated volunteer days are on our events calendar.