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title: Spend Your Holidays on the Land - With Pay! At a Volunteer Agricultural Camp
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-holidays-on-the-land-volunteer-agricultural-camp-1939/
description: 'An all-text poster in red, cream and black lists the attractions of a volunteer farm-work holiday: pay, half fares, free evenings, meals and beds.'
section: Collection
---

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[![Spend Your Holidays on the Land - With Pay! At a Volunteer Agricultural Camp, 1939 UK poster: An all-text poster in red](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-holidays-on-the-land-volunteer-agricultural-camp-1939.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-holidays-on-the-land-volunteer-agricultural-camp-1939.jpg)

# Spend Your Holidays on the Land - With Pay! At a Volunteer Agricultural Camp

An all-text poster in red, cream and black lists the attractions of a volunteer farm-work holiday: pay, half fares, free evenings, meals and beds. It states a camp fee of 4s a day and pay of 1s an hour for men and 10d for women, then closes 'Every hour you give to food production is an hour nearer victory!'. The benefits are listed prominently while the work itself is not described.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
SPEND YOUR HOLIDAYS
ON THE LAND - WITH PAY!

AT A
VOLUNTEER
AGRICULTURAL CAMP
(HOME COUNTIES)

CAMP FEES 4/- A DAY · 4 Days Minimum Stay

PAY (when employed)
AT THE RATE OF
1/- AN HOUR FOR MEN...
10d AN HOUR FOR WOMEN

HALF-FARES PAID
THERE AND BACK

EVERY EVENING
FREE

ENTERTAINMENT
AND RECREATION
FACILITIES

GOOD SUBSTANTIAL MEALS

COMFORTABLE BEDS

26 HOME COUNTIES
CAMPS TO
CHOOSE FROM

For full particulars apply to the Principal Organiser, Volunteer Agricultural Camps (Home Counties), 'Cannon Croft', Eastcote Road, Pinner, Middlesex.

EVERY HOUR YOU GIVE TO FOOD PRODUCTION
IS AN HOUR NEARER VICTORY!
```

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