The role of the environment in our Community, whether built environment, nature, food growing, sustainability, innovative technology or Community places
Many were inspired by the beautiful mosaic Caroline Shaw so expertly brought into being in 2020 outside the Universal Hall, organising a team of (mostly) volunteers and galvanising Craig Gibsone into rebuilding the Park pottery.
The following is a collection of articles published in July and August 2020 in the Rainbow Bridge, our weekly NFA Community Newsletter. They describe the progress of our 'lockdown project' to complete another aspect of
The Universal Hall is an iconic building at the heart of The Park Ecovillage, and was a formative element at a time when the Community expanded exponentially in the early 1970s. Similar to the Matrimadir
In 1982 we decided to complete the Universal Hall, as Vance Martin had managed to get the third World Wilderness Congress 1983 booked. This meant not only completing the Building but turning it from a
I first visited The Findhorn Community as it was then known in 1974, with my ex-husband, Michael Shaw, and Nicholas and Henrietta Rose. Nick had heard about this ‘New Age Community” and wanted to visit
I think it must have been early in 1982 that Peter Caddy sent Roger Mostyn who was an architectural draftsmen, to persuade me to be the Project Manager to complete the unfinished Universal Hall. I
Peter Caddy was mesmerised by a rather suave interior designer called Ruurd who was ‘imported’ to help finish the interior of the Universal Hall. He delivered a mind-boggling ‘vision’ that included fabulously-costly and impractical materials
Within a year of my initial arrival at Findhorn in November 1974, I was assigned to work on the completion of the Universal Hall roof.
There were two generous-sized crystals, not quite the size of an adult’s fist. They’d been gifted in the late ‘70’s by a man from the USA, Ron Bonnewitz, who’d been ‘told’ while driving through one
The Universal Hall was built in the grounds of The Park Building. How this site came into the possession of the community is described in Peter Caddy's autobiography In Perfect Timing p313+4. ...we realised the
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