This site is owned by the NFA (New Findhorn Association), the community association for individuals and organisations within a radius of 50 miles of the Park Ecovillage Findhorn Community, who acknowledge to live and work by a set of Core Values laid out by the community, which we call our “Common Ground”.

This site has been created by a team of volunteers and consultants, listed below, who have been working since August 2021 to create a collective autobiography of the Community as told by present and past members in their own words. We hope not only to share these stories with each other, but also with the world at large. We also aim to provide an online home for people with a special connection to the Ecovillage Findhorn Community – our “Family” – and we hope you will be moved to join us.

Acknowledgements

We are most grateful to the volunteers and consultants who have made this site possible. They include the following:

The present COIF team

Abbott Chrisman – Metadata/tagging
Avalon Santos Willmott – Brand Designer
Carly Newfeld – In Memoriam, global
Cornelia Featherstone – COIF core team, Postmaker, Topics researcher and writer, Concept & structure of website, Newsletter
Kathryn Kusa – In Memoriam, local
Keith Armstrong – COIF core team, Findhorn Foundation archivist (2010-2019)
Ken Walker – Video creation
Janet Shaw – COIF core team, Topics researcher and writer, team socials
Leona Graham – COIF core team, Members’ area host, Media Group
Liza Hollingshead – COIF core team, Members’ Stories & Community Kids list, Postmaker
Mark Richards – Photo editor
Richard Elen – COIF core team, Copywriter of website pages, Postmaker, Topics researcher and writer,
Sabine Weeke – Books & More
Susan Hall – COIF core team, Postmaker
Suzanne Farmer – COIF core team, Topics researcher and writer, Postmaker, Community Magazines post curator
Sylvia Robertson – COIF core team, Postmaker, Admin & finance
Val MacLennan – Web Weaver

Our financial supporters

The creation of this website has been made possible through financial support from The Park Ecovillage Trust who received the funds from the following:

Kaminn Media Limited (Thierry Bogliolo)
John Clausen and Hygeia
Lisette Schuitemaker
John Talbot
Sylvia Robertson
Cornelia Featherstone
Patricia Andersson
Richard Elen
and two other individuals who wish to remain anonymous.
We could not offer this service without your trust and generous support.

Other people who have been involved

Initially the work was done in connection with the preparations for the 60th Birthday of the Community, and the team was involved with both website development and preparation for the events.

Abdul Otman – IT, online events, social media
Amanda Haworth – Community Kids list
Dell Horler – Submission Guidelines, liaison with Findhorn Foundation Comms
Dürten Lau – Birthday Celebrations, NFA liaison, 8 Leaf Ecovillage Model application to information architecure
Giles Christian – Timeline
Janet Limb – Core group and sponsoring Logo design
Kevin Featherstone – Project Management support
Laura Pasetti – 60th Birthday Events coordination
Lorraine Rytz-Theriault – initial core group, NFA liaison
Megan Searby – initial core group, liaison Findhorn Foundation leadership team
Shaun Pollak – Website concept
Val Whistler – initial core group, event management
Yasko Takahashi – Media Group

We are indebted to Adriana Sjan Bijman and her team from 2011. Through their work on the 50th Birthday Book they have given us the blueprint for the concept of the website, the fabulous ebook as well as 156 wonderful stories. And we are deeply grateful to Mike Scott for all his extraordinary work with the Community History up to 2007 – which gave us amongst many things, The Living Record – and his support from the very beginning of this website project.

Copyright

Story creators retain their copyright to text, images and other media unless otherwise stated. NFA holds the copyright on the site overall. For many historical documents, images and other materials included here, the Findhorn Foundation holds the copyright and we acknowledge their generous permission to allow us to use them. Additional copyrights are indicated where they appear.

Whilst every effort has been made to correctly attribute authorship of, and copyright in, the content on this website, and to secure permission for publication herein from rights holders, it has not always been possible to do so and/or without error. Any errors in these respects will be acted upon appropriately once our attention has been drawn to any potentially offending items. Due to the nature of historical material, we may not have been able to determine the copyright holder, or it may be misattributed in some cases. If you spot an item like this, please let us know.