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News Flash: Amovate needs new volunteers now

Dear members,

Amovate has gone through a period of change and now needs your support to create an active, welcoming community here in paradise.

Amovate is looking for people with a wide range of skills and experience:

  • Can you spend a bit of time at home helping with admin and tech?
  • Can you spare a few hours to help set up and run a social, charity or sporting event?
  • Do you have building skills or are you happy to get your hands dirty to help maintain the Amovate property?
  • Do you have ideas about how Amovate could work better to represent a diverse community?
  • Do you have experience of community charity fundraising?
  • Do you have good written communication skills and are happy to help with the newsletter and social media?
  • Are you good with a camera and can you take great photos of Amovate events
  • Do you have ideas or contacts help improve community and local business relations, and increase membership numbers?
  •   Are you a Portuguese speaker who can help with translation and build a joined-up community?
  • Do you want to be involved in influencing positive change in the locality?
  • Are you a parent of children or young people who could help Amovate to find ways to create a community that includes them?

Maybe you are a backroom person who is happy to give a few quiet hours at home? Or are you happy to join in and help create successful events. Maybe you are new to the community and would like to make friends? Perhaps you don’t have much time to spare but would be happy to get involved occasionally?

Amovate is an active organisation that embraces change and wants to reflect the needs of everyone living locally. There is a role for everyone – the more people volunteer the better.

If you have can spare a small amount of time please email info@amovate.com and include a few words about what you can offer or your special powers.

Wildfire Protection Measures Meeting June 24

Aldeia Condominium – Vales and Vale da Telha – Meeting Disclosure

On June 24th, at 5:00 pm, a briefing event will take place at the AMOVATE headquarters, in the Old School house in Vales, about the project of the conduminium of the Aldeia de Vales and Vale da Telha.

This project was developed by the municipality of Aljezur with support from the Environmental Fund and PRR. For more info visit their website.


The ultimate goal of this project is to promote the transformation of the landscape in the area surrounding the villages of Vales and Vale da Telha in order to create a landscape and an ecosystem that is more resilient to fires, which guarantees greater protection of the villages against the occurrence of catastrophic fires.

To achieve this goal, the project foresees two types of complementary actions:

Forest intervention and management – ​​with deforestation actions, fuel management, acacia control and grassland improvement.

This work was done in two phases:
– May to September 2023 – with deforestation actions, fuel management, acacia control
– October, November – pasture sowing

Disclosure, communication – aimed at local actors (resident population, owners and other local actors) – consists of explaining the proposed intervention logic, active management of the fuel load and the role that each person plays in this process.
The active participation of local actors in this meeting will be important to establish a future work process that gives continuity to this project and is capable of incorporating local ideas, suggestions and experiences.

For more information contact the Aljezur Forestry Technical Office

Commander António Ângelo

Tennis Tournament in June

On the weekend of June 22nd and 23rd 2024, the Amovate Tennis Club will be holding its annual doubles competition at the tennis courts in Vale da Telha.

With already 30 doubles teams entered, there are still a few places left for any pairs who wish to enter this social event. So please write to tennis@amovate.com if you wish to enter the tournament! To learn more about the club, check out https://amovate.com/tennis-club/

The tournament this year is held in memory of Edmond Wouters, a very popular and much loved member, who sadly passed away suddenly this year.

Entry fee is 10 euro. All money raised will go to a local charity which will be decided democratically by the players.