The much awaited building of the New Sanctuary has finally started!

In the early hours of 12th April 2021 the Sanctuary was destroyed by a fire set by one of our own members. Clearing and cleansing the site, releasing the old and beginning the new was a painstaking process on many levels – from the most worldly to the most subtle work:

  • complying with exacting health and safety demands
  • deep personal and collective spiritual work of grieving, healing and resilience, including during the 60th Birthday Celebrations
  • working with the land, the garden and the many beings seen and unseen
  • dreaming, consulting and drawing up plans to finally receiving the last official permission for the new build
  • raising the necessary funds (we are nearly there, yet still need more for the final finishes – click here to contribute to the fund)
  • finding the appropriate new legal form for community ownership through the Park Ecovillage Trust (PET) – read more on the PET website
  • appointing Green Leaf Design&Build, founded by Jason Caddy (the grandson of the founders) in 2008

All this has brought us to the point of the Blessing Ceremony on the 1st October 2023 which you can join in full by watching the livestream recording.

We thank the Findhorn Foundation and Mark Richards for the use of their videos on our website. You can watch more Findhorn Foundation videos here.

You can watch more videos on our website by clicking on the tag ‘videos’, also on the top of this page, or by going to our YouTube channel.