Help Restore our Retreat so we can Support Carers

Aim: To provide relaxing, holistic retreats for all whilst gifting free places to those who care for disabled loved ones, rest they truly deserve

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Help us restore our French countryside retreat and enable us to gift free stays to UK carers of disabled and sick children and adults!

Affordable, Accessible & Fun Holistic Retreats

Carers give everything—yet so often receive nothing in return! We’re on a mission to change that by creating inspiring holistic retreats for groups, individuals, and couples, while also gifting free stays to carers of disabled and sick children and adults. With your support, we can make this dream a reality - offering these unsung heroes a well-earned chance to rest, recharge, and reconnect!   

Donations for a Big Purpose

We’re building a peaceful, healing retreat in the French countryside — a space for rest, reconnection, and community.

It’s not just for guests — it’s also a future sanctuary for carers of disabled and sick children and adults from the UK, who will be offered free stays as a thank-you for their dedication and care.

We’ve already come so far!

Thanks to personal funding, resourcefulness, and sheer determination, most of the key building materials are already paid for and on-site.

Tour of the downstairs of the house, see what has been done and what still needs to be done!

Much of the renovation work is complete — but what we need now is support to cover the skilled labour and finishing touches that will finally bring this retreat to life.

Tour of the upstairs of the house, see how much has been done but there is still more to do!

Your contribution goes directly to what matters most: getting the doors open and welcoming our first guests along with carers for their free, well-earned break.

We’re so close to completing the build — but we need help getting it over the line. So, we're asking for donations and inviting you to join our Crowdfunder campaign with lovely, thoughtful rewards!

✨ Why It Matters:

This retreat is being built by Dawn, a disabled holistic practitioner and teacher who has poured her heart, savings, and time into getting the renovation this far  — not just for paying guests, but for carers who give everything, every day, and so often have nowhere to turn to for rest. 

On retreats, where two en-suite guest rooms are booked by paying guests*, Dawn will gift the third family room to two carers completely free. They will just need to get themselves to the retreat — everything else during their week's stay will be fully funded.

Once the funds to complete the build are raised, our aim is to continue fundraising so we can also help with carers’ travel costs and cover the respite care needed for the disabled or sick person they look after!

Your support will help:

• Gift free retreat stays to unpaid carers
• Complete final renovations
• Build accessible outdoor retreat spaces
• Launch a small, ethical social enterprise
• Create a respite support fund for carers and families

🎟️ Some of the rewards:

•  One-on-One Healing Meditation Zoom Session
•  A Unique, Personalised, Handmade, Botanical Wellness Pamper Package
•  Your Name Featured on the “Supporters Wall” at the Retreat 
• Half Hour Reflexology Session
• 925 Silver Chain and Crystal/Stone Pendant
• Discounted places on retreats for you when it is finished - save over 10% by buying now and going later!

27th July - First reward selected by Eric, one Dawn’s patients, he and his wife Katharine happened to be in for their regular appointments so she choose which crystals she wanted! Great choice of Tigers Eye oh a 50cm chain!

💖 Let’s Build It Together:

Whether you simply donate a few pounds or buy one of the rewards, your support will help us turn this dream into a place that gives back for years to come, gifting free retreat stays to unpaid carers and creating a respite support fund for disabled and sick adults and children!

• About the Retreat House

  🏡 Spacious Accommodation

  • Sleeps up to 8 guests across 3 bedrooms (2 en-suite) 
  • Large modern kitchen & utility room
  • 8m x 4.5m lounge/dining area with TV, music, & games
  • Outdoor kitchen & dining area in a private courtyard with a fire pit and jacuzzi
  • Big separate garden by our barn

• 🌳 Idyllic Location

  • Nestled in a picturesque French countryside village, 30 minutes from Limoges
  • Close to stunning lakes, rivers & historic châteaux
  • Nearby lakes, with beaches, an adventure park & watersports centre
  • Local village amenities: bar, post office & hairdresser

• 🎥 Follow Our Renovation Journey!
  📺 Check out our latest house & location videos and see the journey of far:
  🔗 YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@life_and_soul_empowerment/shorts and https://www.youtube.com/@life_and_soul_empowerment/videos

Some photos of the Journey!

The outside of the House

The beach at the lake

The Garden by the Barn

Construction of two new bedrooms

The two new bedrooms plastered

Sunset over the lake!

* please note where en-suite rooms have been paid for through the rewards on this or any other discounts, those rooms will not count towards the total of paid rooms to fund the free rooms for carers.

Funding method

Keep what you raise – this project will receive all pledges made by 31st July 2025 at 7:30pm