 Findhorn community members in front of the Ecovillage (2012) | |
| Formation | 1962 |
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| Purpose | Spirituality |
| Headquarters | Findhorn, Moray, Scotland |
Region served | Worldwide |
| Website | Findhorn Foundation |
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The Findhorn Foundation is a Scottish charitable trust registered in 1972, formed by the spiritual community at the Findhorn Ecovillage, one of the largest intentional communities in Britain.[1] It has been home to thousands of residents from more than 40 countries. The Foundation closed all its educational programmes in September 2023 whereas the Findhorn community eco village at Findhorn houses about 40 community businesses such as the Findhorn Press and an alternative medicine centre.[1][2][3]
Before the Findhorn Foundation in 1972, there was a Findhorn Trust as more people joined Eileen Caddy, Peter Caddy and Dorothy Maclean, who had arrived at the Caravan Park at Findhorn Bay on 17 November 1962. The Findhorn Foundation and surrounding Findhorn Ecovillage community at The Park, Findhorn, a village in Moray, Scotland, and at Cluny Hill in Forres, is now home to more than 400 people.[1]
The Findhorn Foundation and the surrounding community have no formal doctrine or creed. The Foundation were offering a range of workshops, programmes and events in the environment of a working ecovillage and at Cluny Hill Hotel in nearby Forres.
Findhorn Ecovillage has been awarded UN Habitat Best Practice designation from the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (HABITAT), and regularly holds seminars of CIFAL Findhorn, a United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), affiliated training centre for Northern Europe.[4][5]
- ^ a b c The Dictionary of Alternatives: Utopianism and Organization, by Martin Parker, Valerie Fournier, Patrick Reedy. Zed Books, 2007. ISBN 1-84277-333-X. Page 100.
- ^ Findhorn.org Archived 25 June 2007 at the Wayback Machine Findhorn Official website. "[help] unfold a new human consciousness and [create] a positive and sustainable future"
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chwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Moray to be base for UN training Archived 22 November 2012 at the Wayback Machine BBC News, 22 September 2006.
- ^ Findhorn Ecovillage. Awarded UN Habitat Best Practice designation, the Ecovillage has a reputation for being at the cutting edge of the sustainability global movement Archived 3 October 2008 at the Wayback Machine.