Our Findhorn Barrel: Community, Stewardship and Education
We talk about many different aspects of my relationship to this Community and the local area: - growing up in the early days of the community, as the son of two of the founders, on
Slideshow for the 58th Community Birthday
I compiled this slideshow for an extended members council meeting for the 58th birthday of the Community on 17th November 2020. This video shows faces of our Community through the decades, a wonderful moving picture
Seeds of Potential
Have you every failed? When Amy was at such a point, the Findhorn Garden book fell off a shelf, and she embarked on a journey of insight and transformation. She took solace from the stories
Memories from My Time Helping Build Our Universal Hall: 1975….
with Jeremy Bradford 1975 I joined The Community in Spring of 1975 and was put to work in Maintenance (being a hardy Canadian lass) focalised by the inimitable Nick Rose. However, yearning to
The Terrace Project outside the Universal Hall 2020
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
Topic – The Universal Hall
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
Complying with the grant and completing the Hall ‘By Others’
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
The Beginning of the Hall
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
A Scottish Tourist Board grant to complete the Universal Hall
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
Memories of Painting the ceiling of the Hall
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
