We have a new noticeboard and it is now installed.

Thanks to Marja, who started the fundraising process 2 years ago. Pip carried the vision forward.

Thank you to the Boutique Angels who gave £100 of boutique donations towards to the cost. Thank you to the NFA council for supporting this project and to Jamie for organising the order and delivery of the shiny new board. Appreciation to Patrick and Sam for installing it.

Patrick’s Welcome Group initiative prompted the reminder for visitors to have useful information on arrival. Next time you are near the Visitor Centre, please take a look.

Thanks to Yasko for helping Pip to design the new welcome posters with QR codes. The information posters aim to help visitors find their way. Thanks to Avalon for updating the Park Ecovillage map. A team effort and wonderful upgrade!

If you wish for your event to be promoted and included in the noticeboard, please leave your (A5 or smaller) advert at the Visitor Centre. You can pop it through the letterbox or email it to Pip. We close on 31st October for the winter and reopen in April 2027. Pip will refresh and update the notices even when the VC is closed.

I had the pleasure of hosting the Bhakti Marga group, facilitating a bespoke tour for 16 participants from their retreat group with their teacher Swami Anashuya. It was a beautiful experience showing them around. In each of the venues, the group chanted. In the singing chamber a resounding ‘Ooomm’ filled the air and they even chanted during their group photo which I took outside the nature sanctuary. It was a privilege to show them around and see this community through their eyes. In the closing circle, each person shared their insights, highlights and reflections which included feeling the energy of ‘rebirth’ and an ‘emerging of the new’, some spoke of feeling ‘inspired and encouraged’ and others left with a sense of ‘hope for the future and what might be possible’. Hosting groups is a reminder to me about why I am here and why I choose to contribute and serve in this community.

Photo shows the retreat group tour outside the nature sanctuary

24th July 2026 -☀️ Newsletter ☀️ Summer stories from the Garden Week, a 35-year love story, and a very Findhorn way for things to happen 🌺

3rd July 🌻 Funding, Flowers & Future plans! 🌺
17th July Newsletter – Summer Sensations! 🌞

Your FHT Spring/Summer newsletter 🌻

10th July 2026 Update

That’s it … we’re ready to open! Or at least, ready enough.

Those of you interested in such things will know the sociocratic expression: good enough for now, safe enough to try. That’s where we are. We had a final trial run on Tuesday, serving pizza to those who helped us get to this point. And we are opening on Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 5pm to 8pm.

Whether you want a pizza or not, please come by, stick your head through the window to say “Hi!” and see what we have done with the place so far, we’d love to see you.

Our local team of pizza-makers, aspiring pizza-makers and helpers (Anja, Sascha, Peter and Fabio) aims to serve great pizza while offering additional social & environmental benefits, including:

• collaborating with other community initiatives
• offering paid work and volunteering opportunities to community members
• raising awareness of what communities can do to respond to the climate and nature emergency
• inspiring people to take action
• generating funding for local and national community-led initiatives.

We will keep pizza flowing at least three nights a week to start with, and we’d love to do more. To do that

we need a bigger team: would you like to join us?

Please contact Fabio Villani via COIF or come by for an informal chat.

Report in Rainbow Bridge from Meeting held on Thursday 18th June.

Present: Jonathan Caddy, Alessandro Daboni, Leah Findlay, Ross Jenkins, Sabrina Merkel, Sue Dominey, Findlay Wilson, Christopher Berg.

Together we explored The Family Hub Proposal by Leah Findlay and the idea of a bespoke building (potentially in the current Playhouse location) that could house:

• The Caring Community Circle advice service for families once a week;
• a 2–3-year-old morning nursery;
• parental support and nurture afternoons (breast feeding peer-support, baby massage, pregnancy yoga, singing mammas etc…).
• and The Family boutique………all under one roof!

Ross was concerned about how long the Playpark would be closed should there be demolition activities happening at Pineridge. Jonathan confirmed that he would not expect the play area to be closed for more than 3 days if demolition work was to take place. Alessandro said that what the long-term vision for The
Family Hub lacks is a vehicle, a vessel to hold it. It is not believed that PET nor Ekopia would be running the new proposed Family Hub. Alessandro suggested that the River and Roots Steiner Education Co-operative SCIO could possibly be the vehicle that could. (River and Roots are interested– in principal – to hold the lease but further discussions are needed).

Everyone felt that it was a positive meeting with a shared intention for the wellbeing of the children
and families as expressed by Alessandro: “there is so much to happen between now and the
possible future, like land transfers, consultations, collaborations and more but it was touching and
reassuring to know that we all want the spaces for families and children to be a heart centre in Pineridge.

🦋🦋 🐞🐞 🌿🌿 🐜🐜  Rainbow Bridge update 10th July🍀🍀 🪺🪺 🌺🌺 🐝🐝
From all of us volunteers in the Park Gardens, THANK YOU so much for supporting us through donations to our account 4063 in the Phoenix shop.

We have received donations from visitors who have joined us for a session or more and we have had individual donations credited to our account in the shop. We receive a honorarium from the FF3 after each guest programme where we hold guests, and we have received donations from various groups, the recent Benjamin Gathering, the Findhorn Kirtan group and from the Sunday Taize group.

We won’t need to buy regular tea for a long time now, thanks to a huge bag left over from the Easter Conference and we have received various herb teas and a delicious tin of home baked biscuits from kind individuals.

In fact, we feel so blessed (and so well fed) that we would like to direct some of our funds into more areas sorely needed in the gardens – we need secateurs, gloves, fixing broken wheelbarrows, new buckets etc – and so we hope you all feel ok about us diversifying our spendings.

I cannot express how much it means to feel the support from you all. Seeing the happy faces of volunteers replenishing their energies is so rewarding and we couldn’t do it without your support.

So again, from all of us, THANK YOU! xxET

🍓🍓 🌿🌿 🫐🫐 ☘ Just as plants thrive from being watered, 🌧🌧 ☀ 💦💦 🌦🌦
🍫🍫 🍐🍐 Volunteers thrive from nourishing tea breaks! ☕ 🍪🍪 🧃🧃
🐿🐿 🍀🍀 🐝🐝 💪💪 Co-creation thrives with tools that work!🐛🐛 🦋🦋 🐞🐞 🐾🐾

Rainbow Bridge 10th July 2026 – A thank you from Ariane Burgess

In 2005 I came to the Park Ecovillage for the first time, for the 10th anniversary conference of the Global Ecovillage Network. I didn’t know then quite how much that visit would shape the next twenty years of my life.

At that conference, Robert Gillman gave a talk that has stayed with me ever since. He argued that ecovillages couldn’t afford to stand apart from the democratic process — that if communities serious about transformation wanted to see the world change, they had to engage with how power actually works. He defined an ecovillage as a human scale, full-featured settlement in which human activities are harmlessly integrated into the natural world, in a way that is supportive of healthy human development and can be successfully continued into the indefinite future. You can read his full piece here.

Some of you will know my work as a trainer on the Ecovillage Design Education courses. That thread, between intentional community and democratic participation, is one I’ve never let go of. It is, in many ways, why I ended up standing for parliament.

So when I say thank you for voting, I mean it with that whole history behind it. You exercised a right that generations fought hard to win, and you used it thoughtfully. If you chose the Scottish Green Party on your regional ballot — the peach paper — I want you to know that your vote in the Findhorn area was more than four times the Green share across Moray as a whole. That tells me this community understands, perhaps better than most, why it matters to show up for people and the planet.

You, and people with similar values across the region, helped return not one but two Scottish Green MSPs for the Highlands and Islands. I am grateful to have been representing and supporting people across this whole region for the last five years, and I am now delighted to be sharing that responsibility with Kristopher Leask MSP, currently also an Orkney Islands Councillor. Having two Green voices in the chamber is a real step forward. We’ve been getting our portfolios, committees and other things
sorted out since the election and starting in on a range of debates.

With warmth and gratitude,
Ariane Burgess

10th July 2026 Update from Debbie Raymont – Planning Permission Granted

I am absolutely delighted to share that planning permission has now been granted for my Dune Croft off -grid home. This marks the beginning of an exciting journey to create what I believe will be one of the most innovative and regenerative homes.

Inspired by the Swedish Naturhus concept, the house has been designed with my son Tom Raymont from Arboreal Architecture to work as a living ecosystem. The Nature House will be fully off -grid, generating its own renewable electricity, harvesting and filtering rainwater, and treating wastewater through ecological systems that recycle nutrients back into the landscape.

A greenhouse enclosure creates a sheltered micro-climate around the home, reducing heat loss through passive solar gain while providing beneficial conditions for growing food throughout the year.

Designed as a regenerative system, the house integrates renewable energy, water management and food production so that each element supports the next. By combining passive environmental design with permaculture principles and productive food growing, it aims to reduce reliance on external infrastructure while creating a self-sufficient home that works with natural processes.

I am deeply grateful to everyone who has supported the project so far and to those who recognised its potential through the planning process. It has taken vision, determination and collaboration to reach this milestone, and I couldn’t be happier that we can now begin bringing it to life.
With love and best wishes for us all,
Debbie

17th July 2026 – Hello from the Hall,

Many of you know that Peter Vallance has spent many years building the Universal Hall into an international venue for the Arts in Northern Scotland.

As we bloom into a beautiful Summer here in Findhorn, and Peter hands the baton on we are inspired to announce a new era of expertise and creative development within the team at Universal Hall Promotions.
We offer a huge welcome to Tanera Bryden who is our new Executive/Artistic Director as of the 1st July.

Big Changes at the Universal Hall Promotions Team!

We have some exciting shuffling of the deck to share with you! If you’ve been wondering who is running the show these days, here is the official rundown of our new-look crew:

• Marketing Magic: Earlier this year, we bid a fond farewell to Shirley. We are delighted to announce that Yasko Takahashi has officially stepped up to take the reins as our Marketing Director.
• Front of House Superstar: You probably already know Audicia from her beautiful presence and expertise at our live events. We’re excited to share that she is taking on even more responsibilities as our new Front of House Manager.
• The Rock: As always, Ursula is here, steadily holding down the fort and keeping us all running smoothly.

Come Say Hello! Whether you want to wish Peter well on his next chapter or just see the fresh faces, drop by the Hall office soon. We would love to introduce you to the new Universal Hall Promotions Team!

17th July – New Sanctuary Road
Community Thank you

The Park Service’s team, JT, JR, Christine, Thomas and Gus would like to thank the community for their support in the recent resurfacing of the road to the Light of Findhorn Sanctuary, which is now fully accessible.

Thank you to JR for project managing so well in the lead up to the event and on the day itself. We’re grateful Breedon’s could complete the work in one day with minimal disruption to The Park.

In particular, we would like to thank Angus, Guy, Elizabeth and the entire Friends of Park Gardens for the timely trimming of the Beech Hedge in advance of the road work!

We would also like to thank Jonathan, Kajedo and Cameron, the tree surgeon, for creating overhead clearance for the larger vehicles!

And thank you to THA for providing HOCO funding for the project. Park Services would not have been able to implement this work without the strong community support we received!

Thank you to everyone involved. May you enjoy your next walk along the new road and stay safe and well ✨

Middle Studio, 272 Pineridge, The Park, Findhorn
Open 9-11am each weekday morning

For more information – visit our website: www.tha-ltd.org/park-services

We are Open!

As many of you may have noticed, The Park Pottery has been closed the last couple months while we had a major overhaul.

The pottery has been running for over 50 years! In that time there have been many different chapters and enthusiastic teams and individuals that have kept this special creative space going.

Now the pottery is stepping into a new chapter. Our amazing team has been working hard these last months, painting, cleaning, rearranging and reorganising the pottery to bring it up to date with modern requirements and to give the space a beautiful uplift.

Its current directors, Larissa, Jenny and Olivia, would like to express deep gratitude for the support we have received from the community and the generosity of everyone who has given their time and energy to make these big changes possible. It has been an incredible journey!

Our Connect with Clay hand building sessions have started again every Saturday and Wednesday morning 10-12.30. The shop will be open Wednesday, Saturday & Sunday mornings, as well as other spontaneous moments when our team is in creating. Pop in to see our beautiful selection of ceramics.
We would also love to invite you to our reopening party on 25th July from 2pm onwards. Please come along and celebrate with us!

❤️Much love from the Park Pottery Team❤️

24th July – Rainbow Bridge Update from Barbara Swetina and the Homecoming team

Divine grace can take many forms. Sometimes an encounter can open doors into unexpected possibilities. When I met the German pianist Joachim Goerke at the Findhorn dance festival in 2022 a unique musical and spiritual partnership was born. It still continues to deepen and has given birth to the ‘Homecoming in Song and Stillness’ retreat, now in it’s 4th year!

‘Homecoming’ as a title stands for a longing many of us have for remembering spirit and a loving connection with all there is. Song & Stillness are the musical parameters that form the basis of music. In this retreat they become pathways for recalling and sustaining a state of divine love and harmony in our hearts, often forgotten in our busy lives.

Barbara brings her musical skills and many instruments to share the song + dance repertoire alive in the community, as well as the Findhorn tools to create a unified heart field. Joachim’s exquisite piano playing weaves throughout the week. His gentle improvisations underlie many of the weeks reflective activities and take them to a different level, almost inducing a gentle trance and subtly communicating a state of Heaven through sound!

Other themes in the week included conscious listening (with a meditation on the ear), mindful walking, Ho’o pono pono forgiveness, time in nature and sharing our connection to the subtler realms with angels and nature spirits.

This year, through returning member Carolin Comberti the Love wells received renewed attention and activation. They were created more than 20 years ago to allow nature beings to receive love and gratitude from us humans by ways of sound, singing and conscious appreciation for their daily work.

We are delighted that our open evening brought in £360 which we are happy to offer as a fundraiser for the Universal Hall chairs! Thank you all who helped to make this week all it was, especially our wonderful welcome team of Carolin, Audicia and Swan!

To finish with a quote from a participant : ‘Vital to have events like this to help us reach a vibration or consciousness that brings in the New Heaven and the New Earth!’

with love for the Homecoming team, Barbara Swetina

Newsletter 8th May – From Beltane to future visions ❤️‍🔥💐

22nd May – Summer Magic is brewing🪄☀️

5th June – This week’s bumper newsletter! 🤩

19th June – 🌞 A summer invitation for all! 💌

Newsletter 10th May – Experience Week is back in the Findhorn Ecovillage ✨
🌟 Newsletter 22nd May 🌟 Spring has arrived in Findhorn, with bees, gardens and Experience Week: from I to We 🌺

Newsletter 7th June: Experience the Findhorn Garden – Co-creating with the intelligences of nature 🌿

Newsletter 19th June: 🌟 Newsletter 🌟 New Programmes, Community News & Yoga Day 🌟

PET Newsletter Spring 2026 – Evolving Together

We have created a section to share the news of upcoming COIF events and also reports from past event. Click here to read more.

21st May 2026: Our first COIF Film-Night

On the occasion of COIF’s 5th Birthday we organised a Film-Night.

The Film-Night worked better than we could have dreamed with lots of amazing coincidences. The film schedule was a bit of a stab in the dark but it turned out that each film flowed into the other rather well, covering a lot of ecovillage aspects over the decades, and with a sense of humour playing through it all. This aspect only became clear when watching the whole programme in one sitting. This synchronicity gave us a sense that is was ‘intended’ on a ‘higher level’ rather than just orchestrated by us, thus making it much more meaningful and precious. And, in the tradition of Experience Week, the evening ended with a practice that can be applied by each one of us in our daily life – Personal&Planetary Transformation in practice.

This is the whole programme and if you have 3 1/2 hours to sit through it all you may capture that same magic.

Mainly Magnus (1973)

Findhorn Original Garden Peter Vallance (2012)

Turning Point (2009)

Going Green CNN (2016)

Growing Up Green (2021)

France24 (Oct 2025)

Robert Holden Tea Meditation (2017)

Click here for information about more COIF Events.

22nd May update in the Rainbow Bridge

The SEEN working group creates the opportunity to consult with each other and share feedback, updates and ideas. The spirit of collaboration is growing stronger, as we explore how educational activities can be organised. We are planning a community meeting for the SEEN group to be SEEN, and to invite
questions and input as we move beyond the initial six months of the group.

Meeting 7 May 26

Present: Judy (SCIO/FF3), Christine (EdCw), Lisa & Dorota (EF CBS), Sue & Willow (NFA). Apologies: Marilyn (SCIO/FF3), Jonathan & Dell (EdCw)
Minutes: Sarah.

We shared individual impressions of how the group has evolved:

• Relationship restoration has been an important part of the group’s purpose, and a core reason for its existence.
• The group is also operational where details can be discussed.
• Similar to the Asset transfer group, it helped that this group and the individuals involved were visible to the community. A place to meet that isn’t just governance related, but also the day to day workings.
• When the group started, the connections were different. They have now changed and good communication has resulted in good relationships. We have managed to have different views but can allow these to be heard, beyond just our roles. It has been a kind of alchemy, with all the people involved.

We also shared updates on the work that is being done within each organisation. Diversity training and safeguarding in the community were raised as important issues we can address cross-organisationally.

Silent Observers
In the spirit of transparency, the meetings are open to silent observers. These will be limited to two per meeting due to space. Please be in touch if you’d like to attend our next meeting Thursday 4th June at 10am. Our hope is that this opportunity can contribute to a sense of trust in the community.

1st June Newsletter – Angel of June is Support

Steiner Waldorf Education is growing again within the embrace of our community. The Steiner Initiative first began in a caravan at The Park and then in 1985 it grew into The Family House (now the CCC Hoose) and in 1987 to Drumduan House. Drumduan has now closed its doors to educating 7 – 18-year-olds. However, that is not the end of the story….

The Steiner Waldorf impulse within our community is calling forth a new initiative for a new time, born to meet the changing needs of our children and is finding a simple way forward without needing to navigate the ever-increasing bureaucratic burden which is placed on schools.

River and Roots Steiner Waldorf Home Education Hub is being born gently and simply by weaving together the offerings of Steiner Waldorf Tutors, parents and spaces gifted-in-kind. It is a quiet, organic birth without ceremony or fanfare. It is emerging in Forres at tutors’ homes and handwork held weekly at Forres House Community Centre; The NFA are watering its roots by providing the Youth Building for Class 1-2-3 on a Tuesday and Wednesday with Stephanie Vis; Talebearers are learning the art of storytelling and creative writing at The CCC Hoose on a Tuesday morning for 10 – 15-year-olds with Peter Findlay and cooking and creativity classes are being enjoyed on a Thursday morning at the Youth Building for 7 – 14 year olds with Nicola Newton and the Freedom Friday Club is parent-led.

Each lesson / workshop is booked separately with the individual tutor. Some children have migrated from Drumduan, other children who were Home Educated have joined the hub and those who were unhappy at school have found a thriving and nurturing learning hub to be part of.

“Personally, being a private tutor and teaching in smaller groups has been an incredibly wonderful experience. I am able to provide the children with a Steiner education and tailor it to their specific needs. I am not overwhelmed and in danger of a burn out (as I was as a teacher) and the children leave the sessions feeling empowered, confident and positive about their learning, which is really all that we strive for as educators.” Lisa Betts, Steiner Waldorf Home Education Tutor.

If you’d like to support the bursary fund or volunteer, please Leah Findlay via the COIF Contact Us

27th March – New energy is blooming 🌻
10th April – Conference Success & Next Steps!🌟
24th April – From Earth Day to Every Day 🌍

Update in Rainbow Bridge 3rd April
Education SCIO (S), Education Circle (E), EF CBS (E) and NFA (N)

The SEEN working group creates the opportunity to consult with each other and share feedback, updates and ideas. The spirit of collaboration is growing stronger, as we explore how educational activities can be organised and listen deeply to each other. A six month review by SEEN is scheduled in April.

Meeting 12 Mar 26
Present: Marilyn & Judy (SCIO/FF3), Christine, Jonathan, & Dell (on zoom)
(EdCw), Dorota (EF CBS) (on zoom), Annie & Sue (NFA).
Minutes: Sarah RB update: Christine

Overview
NFA proposed a discussion and a poll to complete the issue of the petition, as the poll last August stated that there would be a ‘referendum’ in six months’ time, and that time is soon. The SCIO doesn’t see itself as the group who should hold any process around this. Neither FFT nor SCIO Trustees were part of creating the petition process and aren’t responsible for resolving it. Recommendation that this could be held by the SEEN group.

• A bigger discussion is needed about the FF name – discussion for after the NFA AGM
  and elections.
• FF3 has a subgroup to create something to bring to the community regarding the Two Tier conversation.
• Framework Agreement between EF CBS and FF3 in progress around multiple bookings of the Guest Lodge by FF3, recognising each other as trusted partners.
• Easter conference: A big part is an exhibition to showcase what’s happening in the community.
• Exploration of marketing each other’s events.
• The first Experience Week: From I to We is scheduled for 26th April. NFA and EF CBS members are welcome to apply for a non residential place.
• The idea of a community Experience Week was raised by Barbara Swetina in EdC
• The importance of group safety was discussed and that sometimes it’s about
  people having the courage to speak up, rather than the group being unsafe.
• Appreciation for Annie as this is her last SEEN meeting as NFA LC rep.

Silent Observers
In the spirit of trust and transparency, the meetings are open to silent observers. These will be limited to two per meeting due to space.

🌟 Newsletter 10th April 🌟 Celebrate spring – new offerings in person and online 🌱☀️
Newsletter 20th April – ✨ Seeds of Light ✨ Join our global community initiative ✨

Park Ecovillage resident Fabio Villani put the following article in the Rainbow Bridge 4th April 2026:

Can you and La Boheme help save our beautiful planet?

Huge thanks to all who joined SCCAN (Scottish Communities Climate Action Network) and Moray CAN at our Can pizza save the planet? event at the Phoenix Café last Thursday, and to all those who made the event possible.

Honourable mentions particularly to Eian for the amazing pizzas, Julia for the general support and the green, super-efficient bicycle delivery, Charlotte for giving us access to the Café, Sara for helping us to promote the event, and Fi for running the bar during the busy evening, not to mention the amazing SCCAN and Moray CAN colleagues.

The event was designed as an initial experiment to help us work out whether we can generate a steady funding stream to support community-led climate action through the simple and highly-enjoyable act of buying and eating delicious, freshly-made pizza.

Our long term aspiration is to have Pay It Forward Pizza outlets across Scotland, run ethically, to support community-led climate action locally and nationally.

The Pay It Forward dimension will enable customers to pay for a pizza or a slice of pizza for someone who needs it (e.g. a homeless person) or has earned it (e.g. someone who is doing something positive for the environment).

While the money raised on Thursday was less than we had hoped for, it was enough to encourage us to look further into the idea, testing it further and more rigorously by running a trial for at least a month and ideally throughout the summer season.

The pilot will also give us insights into whether knowing that every pizza supports communities to take action on climate change and protect the environment helps to:

• raise people’s awareness of what communities can do to respond to the climate emergency,
• inspire them to take action themselves,
• instil / restore a sense of community agency and
• attract customers.

La Boheme seems to be the ideal place for the project. It is already equipped to produce delicious pizza, and would benefit from our support.

We would like to help run La Boheme if we can recruit a pool of well-paid pizza-makers and helpers for the initial month and possibly the summer.

Could that include YOU?

If you are interested, please contact me for an informal chat on email: fabio@sccan.scot – I look forward to hearing from you

13th April – NFD Newsletter #19 The Final Edition

Erraid’s Spring Update: ducks, daffodils and deer-defenses

Beltane Greetings from Traigh Bhan, Iona – Newsletter

6th Feb – Winter Magic and Community News 🔮

27th Feb – Flourishing at Findhorn: Growth, Gathering & Governance🌱

13th March – News from Ecovillage Findhorn🌅

 20th February – 🌟 Newsletter 🌟 Findhorn Experience Week: From I to We 🌟

16th March: 🌟 Newsletter 🌟 Share your Findhorn-Story & Visit Us🌱☀️

20th March: 🌟 BE PEACE🌟 An Invitation 🌟

Our latest Annual Report for the year ending 31st March 2025

🎭 Down the Rabbit Hole… and into the Woodland Garden! 🌿

FHT ❄️ Winter / Spring newsletter 🌷

3rd March News – Asset Transfers, Cullerne Garden CSA, and an update from Phoenix Findhorn CIC

General Update

It is full steam ahead with the asset transfers, and good progress is being made across all areas. For those who were unable to attend last week’s presentation, please find the slides attached.

Watch this space — we will soon be launching the Cullerne Gardens CSA, along with an investment opportunity to support the project’s development. Further details will follow shortly.

Message from Phoenix Findhorn CIC – Discount Update

For members who hold Phoenix shares, please see below an important update regarding your discount arrangements. The Phoenix is introducing a small change designed to streamline the till process and avoid confusion in both the shop and café.

Further details are set out below.

Dear Phoenix Shareholders.

Thank you for your continued investment in Phoenix Findhorn CIC through Ekopia.
We have a small update regarding the Ekopia discount scheme, and one simple action for you to take, so that you – and one family member – can continue to receive your 10% discount at the Phoenix Shop and Café.
1. A simpler till process
We have added all Ekopia investor names and Share Issue Numbers to the Phoenix till system. This will help staff apply the discount quickly and accurately.
From Monday 30 March 2026, please give your name or Share Issue Number at the till to receive your discount.
The till team can give you your Share Issue Number if you do not already have it. Please keep a note of it for future visits, as it will speed things up.
2. Nominate one household member (optional)
You may nominate one person from your household to share your 10% discount.
If you wish to do this, please complete the attached Nominee Form and return it by Wednesday 25 March to allow time for your nominee’s name to be added to the till system. Nominee Forms are also available at the Shop and Café tills.
Once registered, your nominee can receive the discount by giving either their name or your Share Issue Number.
If you have questions, please get in touch.
Thank you again for your support.
Kind regards,
Lisa Mead ( Phoenix – Managing Director)

The Lorian Association – Friends in the Field – 25th Feb 2026

Global Ecovillage Network (GEN) The Pulse of a Living System – March Ecovillage Network Digest

Spiritual Caucus at the United Nation (NGO Major Group Unitive Cluster)

 

There are Monthly Meditations for the United Nations

In collaboration with the Spiritual Caucus at the UN in New York.
The Spiritual Caucus at the UN supports the aims of the United Nations
as expressed in the Preamble to the UN Charter. We seek to balance and
strengthen the endeavours of the UN system and its affiliates with
inner reflection and stillness.

Meditations are held every third Thursday via Zoom. Please click here for more information.

UN meditation room

Chosen during the Solstice Spiral Meditation on 20th December

Angel Card ©Drake&Tyler

Kathy Tyler offers the following inspiration:

Heartfelt understanding of the human condition that encompasses the pain in oneself and others, dissolves judgment and opens the way for acceptance. A sincere desire to alleviate suffering.

Cultivating a compassionate nature, for both ourselves and others, acts as a healing balm that helps us tolerate hurts and nurtures our ability to be with what is. It gives us refuge from our judging minds and allows our hearts to open.

May you be wrapped in the wings of the Angel of Compassion and invite in all those around you.

A lovely story circulated in the Community after the Solstice Spiral setup was cleared away: after removing all the angel cards from the table with the glowing globe the volunteers shook out the cloths and one card fell out – it was the Angel of Synthesis. Many of us think that it has chosen to remain with us as it had been the Angel of the Year for 2025 – a most welcome second companion for this year as we build on the big changes which had been brought about ‘under its wings’ in 2025.

This year’s Community Christmas is very different. Due to the inspiration and commitment of Dorota Owen and Joan Wilmot, the Universal Hall was transformed into a temporary community centre. One of the highlights were two seatings for Christmas Dinner on the 25th, bringing together many volunteers and feeding 100 people!

This video by Mark Richards captures the atmosphere beautifully. A BIG Thank you to ALL involved!

The traditional Rounders game on the playing fields in Findhorn Village saw two teams giving their BEST – The Dingleberry’s, The Winter Winners – and surprise, surprise it was again a draw.

9th Jan 2026: 💫 Welcome to 2026! 💫 In this Newsletter: Survey Results ✅, Shared Meals 🍴, and Steady Progress 📈
23rd Jan: 🌌Northern Lights and Ideas Bright🌠

From Mark Richards

Between 20.30 and 23.00 on the 19th January 2026 the Aurora gave an impressive show of colour. I missed the earlier, most vivid display but this was still the best I have seen in recent years here.

This update was presented at the Education Circle on 14th Jan 2026 by Cornelia Featherstone for the COIF Core Team

Website

Our work with the website continues apace – we now have 1572 post up on the website. Sadly we missed our 1500 stories milestone so didn’t celebrate it appropriately – hopefully we do the next one more justice.

We continue to research Topics, the one about the Angel of Findhorn in December was particularly well received. There are a couple in the pipeline, one on Cullerne Garden to support Ekopia’s re-awakening of the gardens, and another ecovillage one on climate action by our fabulous Janet Shaw who has done five so far.

Another wonderful volunteer from the global community, Suzanne Farmer, not only delivered twice weekly Offerings to inspire but also did again a special pre-Christmas project – Solstice Gifts 2025.

We continue with our two community logs – Community News and Family Announcements. The latter had a particularly strong impact as friends of Billy Sargent, “Sarge” co-wrote a very touching tribute to this much loved community member.

The core team continues to go strong and there are too many individual contributions to name them all here. They are Leona Graham, Keith Armstrong, Janet Shaw, Suzanne Farmer, Richard Elen, Sue Hall, Liza Hollingshead, Sylvia Robertson, and Cornelia Featherstone with our Angel of Balance for 2026

Community Archive Grant Project

A lot of work has gone into this project since we received the £10K grant in June. Most importantly we are ready to appoint an archivist and we are holding a Stakeholder Attunement in Fri 16th at 2pm following the Education Attunement. Everyone is invited. There is a short article in the Rainbow Bridge and a much longer report in an email which has gone out to many stakeholders, incl. the Education circle group email.

Just one thing to highlight – as It is quite confusing. Right now as we are presently talking about three different grants:

1) the Community Archive Grant Project – funded by PET, from a donation made by Thierry Bogliolo of Kaminn Media Ltd late June 2025. This funds work undertaken by the COIF Team on behalf of PET. We are in the process of appointing an archivist who will help us create a robust system that will allow us to integrate the archive material from the Findhorn Foundation and many other Community organisations/groups/individuals that have shaped the heritage of this place over the decades into a comprehensive Community Archive moving into the forward. The archivist will scope the extent of archive material on all levels, collate the information and present it in a way that it can support a funding application in the proposed Heritage Fund Partnership – we call this ‘the big one’ :-)
2) The National Archive Resilience Grant – which is the one FF Trust and PET are partnering on. The objective is to
a) secure the archive material inadequately stored in the Park Building and
b) prepare it, as well as the whole FF Archive for a transfer process to the appropriate legacy organisation.
This obviously feeds directly into the Community Archive Grant Project and when the grant comes through the same archivist working on that project will take on that additional work.
3) the ‘big one’ – Heritage Fund bid – a partnership bid between the Community Archive Project, the future Heritage Centre and the Universal Hall as Heritage building. The partnership group for that meeting has its second meeting on Thurs 14th.

Unitive Principles in Action: Transforming Partnerships, Equality, and Innovation.

This is the recording of an event on Tuesday, January 27th which Frances Edwards and John Clausen helped organise.

Some very amazing projects and initiatives from all around the globe – and May East gave her perspective of the role of the Ecovillage Findhorn in that context.

Thank you May, Thank you John and Frances for continuing this amazing work with the UN.

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1st February 2026 – Update

PETs’ angels for 2026 are Presence, Compassion, Resilience, Tenderness, Authenticity and Strength – so many because each wing (the name we all feel best replaces ‘division’ of former years) chose their own – Presence twice!

🌄 We are truly blessed 💞

Left to right: Isabella Guerrini de Claire, Alessandro Daboni, Jonathan Caddy, Amanda Haworth and Leona Graham

As December advanced the PET Board was busy integrating two new directors: Leona Graham supporting CCC, and Isabella (Izzy) Guerrini de Claire for Carbon Strategy. Then in January 2026, our new angels were straightaway hard at work in the magical Findhorn Field and brought us Jonathan Caddy as a new Director to strengthen our board for the adventures ahead.

Alessandro and Amanda attend the FFT asset allocations meetings which elegantly demonstrate the ease with which the Legacy Organisations collaborate. PET, in a working partnership with Ecovillage Findhorn, has offered to shoulder stewardship of Pineridge. This calls forth all our mettle; there is much work to do and due diligence will paint the final picture.

Another aspect of concern to the FFT has been archive material stored in the damp Park Building. Applying for a grant specifically for archiving services catapulted PET into another exciting partnership plan.

A date for your diaries: 26th February 16.00-17.30 when PET alongside Ekopia, EF CBS, FHT and FF3 will present where the ongoing FFT asset transfer talks have evolved and will answer your questions and take in your thoughts.

Reports from the CCC Team of Leona, Jen and Izzy are reassuringly robust as can be read in each week’s Rainbow Bridge.

The Carbon Action Group led by Margo van Greta and Göran completed its series of six themed meetings on 6th December and had five star ratings from participants. Follow-up is assured by this intrepid team.

We also wish to acknowledge the PET / FF3 (former FF SCIO) / Ed Circle cooperation, supported by the Carbon Group, around the initiative ‘Harmonising with our community value the Carbon Footprint of Visitors at the Ecovillage’, a topic advocated by Göran and Roger for many years.

The affordable housing wing is very excited that plans are unfolding that would see PET take on all Landlord responsibilities for Silvertrees as soon as the 1st March. A Meet & Greet with almost all the Silvertrees residents happened on the last Friday of January. It was a great occasion to break bread, and share some soup, followed by a circle discussion about what the changes will mean, with at the heart of it clarity that we are in this together, PET and all the tenants, for Silvertrees to take on a thriving future. Information on the economics of affordable housing were shared to highlight why the collaboration is so important.

On a sadder note in February we will see Alex Wright leave his post as housing manager and want to appreciate him for all that he was able to do in his time with PET and wish him every success in his upcoming adventures.

Heartfelt thanks to our members, donors and supporters. We feel you right alongside us every step of the way. We couldn’t do all this without you!

With Love and Blessings,

🕊✨🕊 💞 🕊️ ✨🕊

PET Board: Amanda Haworth, Alessandro Daboni, Isabella Guerrini de Claire,
Leona Graham, Jonathan Caddy
Advisors: Kathy Tyler (New Sanctuary), Roger Doudna (Carbon Strategy) Göran Wiklund (Carbon Action Group, Carbon Bites etc.)

Park Ecovillage Trust is a Company Limited by Guarantee, registered in Scotland as
Company No: SC354855

Also a Charity registered in Scotland, No: SC041279 Registered Office: 254 Pineridge,
The Park, Findhorn, Forres IV36 3TB