Welcome to HelpX
HelpX is an online listing of host organic farms, farmstays, hobby farms, lifestyle blocks, homestays, ranches, lodges, backpackers hostels and even sailing boats who invite volunteer helpers to stay with them short-term in exchange for food and accommodation. HelpX is provided primarily as a cultural exchange for working holiday makers, who would like the opportunity during their travels abroad, to stay with local people and gain practical experience. In the typical arrangement, the helper works an average of 4 hours per day and receives free accommodation and meals for their efforts.
This time range can vary considerably depending on the tasks at hand and the host's preferences. Some hosts may require just 2 hours per day for accommodation only, and ask you to provide and cook your own food.
Others may expect 6 hours per day in return for meals, your own room and sometimes other benefits such as free Internet use, horse riding, kayaking, bikes, local sight-seeing trips, yoga or English lessons, etc. Some will give weekends off, while others might allow you to put in 8 hours one day and later take a full day off. Helpers often live with the host family and are expected to join in and offer a helping hand with day-to-day activities.
Volunteer helpers are required to register for one of two levels of membership, Free or Premier. Helpers must upgrade to Premier membership to take full advantage of all HelpX has to offer. Premier membership costs 20 Euros for 2 years and allows the helper to contact all hosts and read all host reviews. Premier helpers can browse this site and contact hosts directly to see about making arrangements to stay.
Hosts wishing to add a free listing inviting helpers to stay will need to register. Registered hosts may update their details as often as they like and view helper profiles.
We advise both helpers and hosts to ask plenty of questions about each other in order to establish expectations from each party. Helpers should never turn up without prior arrangement.
Helpers can also opt to provide a self description for hosts to view who may then wish to invite the helper to stay with them. We advise helpers to include in their profile any skills or experience they may have, such as gardening, farming, agriculture, permaculture, fruit-picking; trade skills such as building, carpentry, landscaping, sail boat crewing; working with animals or an ability to care for and ride horses. Helpers can also look for travel companions.
HelpX (not helpex), operates worldwide including in Australia, New Zealand, Canada and Europe including France.
Where will you go to next?
Australia
New Zealand
Europe
North America
Central America & Caribbean
South America
Pacific Islands
Asia
Africa
Testimonials
Thank you for a very rewarding experience. We have loved hosting visitors to Australia from all over the world and congratulate the Helpx organisation for giving us this wonderful opportunity. We would encourage anyone thinking about hosting to do so. Many thanks Helpx.
We have had great experiences hosting travelers on our farm. When I was young traveling I was hosted in many countries and those hosts made me feel safe and welcomed. It is a gift to continue this rich tradition of welcoming travelers into your home. We find the help beneficial and more importantly, the guests are fun, full of stories from their experience and a joy to spend time with. I highly recommend it.
We are hosts in Ulaanbaatar Mongolia since 2017 summer. Just wanted to say that we have found helpx to be a fantastic working idea. We have had about 4 helpers this summer and all have been excellent. We have had a wonderful exchange of cultures and friendships for ourselves and our daughter and hope it continues forever!
We have loved meeting people from different countries and have had some fabulous helpers. It has made a real difference having the help so we can all enjoy some down time. HelpX is a great site for putting helpers and hosts together. We look forward to hosting more helpers in the near future.
We discovered HelpX a couple of years ago. Having enthusiastic young travellers who are motivated to work for their meals and lodging is a real bonus for us on many levels. Besides seeing wonderful changes in the garden and a neatly stacked woodpile we also get to learn about other countries, lifestyles and politics. Having travelled for many years ourselves, hosting travellers is a bit like travelling without leaving home. It`s a great program!
Helpx is the best thing that ever happened to us. Not only has it made our farm more fun, I believe that it has enriched our lives and the lives of our family. Our international visitors are very welcome at lambing time when the workload seems a bit too much to handle. Thank you for a great website! We welcome more visitors and hope that this can continue for years to come.
Helpx has been a wonderful experience for us.Having such great people share our tasks makes it fun not hard! The travellers meet are honest, hard working and interesting and take us back to our days of being on the road. HelpX offers a terrific service we can`t thank you enough.
We have had Helpx people for the last few years and have been very lucky with such good friends from France, Taiwan, China and so on, we look forward to people staying with us and helping around the farm
Great site. Easy to use and have been put in contact with really nice people who have become friends. Thank you.
Helpx is awesome! Such a good way to meet people and to be really a part of the local culture. You give as much as you receive.
Although we have registered with you folks this year, we already hosted several volunteers. It is a brilliant idea and was very helpful to have multi cultural and multi national helpers with us. They were really helpful and productive. While having a good time together, we put out a lot of work and products. We are looking forward to welcoming more helpers in the days ahead of us. Thank you for the good work.
I remember when I was thinking almost half year ago which web site to choose.. and thank God I have chosen Helpx. I have spent beautiful time with all of my hosts and it is an experience that I wouldn`t change for anything in the world.
Thank you for a very rewarding experience. We have loved hosting visitors to Australia from all over the world and congratulate the Helpx organisation for giving us this wonderful opportunity. We would encourage anyone thinking about hosting to do so. Many thanks Helpx.
We have had great experiences hosting travelers on our farm. When I was young traveling I was hosted in many countries and those hosts made me feel safe and welcomed. It is a gift to continue this rich tradition of welcoming travelers into your home. We find the help beneficial and more importantly, the guests are fun, full of stories from their experience and a joy to spend time with. I highly recommend it.
We are hosts in Ulaanbaatar Mongolia since 2017 summer. Just wanted to say that we have found helpx to be a fantastic working idea. We have had about 4 helpers this summer and all have been excellent. We have had a wonderful exchange of cultures and friendships for ourselves and our daughter and hope it continues forever!
We have loved meeting people from different countries and have had some fabulous helpers. It has made a real difference having the help so we can all enjoy some down time. HelpX is a great site for putting helpers and hosts together. We look forward to hosting more helpers in the near future.
We discovered HelpX a couple of years ago. Having enthusiastic young travellers who are motivated to work for their meals and lodging is a real bonus for us on many levels. Besides seeing wonderful changes in the garden and a neatly stacked woodpile we also get to learn about other countries, lifestyles and politics. Having travelled for many years ourselves, hosting travellers is a bit like travelling without leaving home. It`s a great program!
Helpx is the best thing that ever happened to us. Not only has it made our farm more fun, I believe that it has enriched our lives and the lives of our family. Our international visitors are very welcome at lambing time when the workload seems a bit too much to handle. Thank you for a great website! We welcome more visitors and hope that this can continue for years to come.
Helpx has been a wonderful experience for us.Having such great people share our tasks makes it fun not hard! The travellers meet are honest, hard working and interesting and take us back to our days of being on the road. HelpX offers a terrific service we can`t thank you enough.
We have had Helpx people for the last few years and have been very lucky with such good friends from France, Taiwan, China and so on, we look forward to people staying with us and helping around the farm
Great site. Easy to use and have been put in contact with really nice people who have become friends. Thank you.
Helpx is awesome! Such a good way to meet people and to be really a part of the local culture. You give as much as you receive.
Although we have registered with you folks this year, we already hosted several volunteers. It is a brilliant idea and was very helpful to have multi cultural and multi national helpers with us. They were really helpful and productive. While having a good time together, we put out a lot of work and products. We are looking forward to welcoming more helpers in the days ahead of us. Thank you for the good work.
I remember when I was thinking almost half year ago which web site to choose.. and thank God I have chosen Helpx. I have spent beautiful time with all of my hosts and it is an experience that I wouldn`t change for anything in the world.