What’s Happening
A Year and A Day Magazine
A Year and a Day Magazine A Year and a Day Magazine It's well known that times of confinement or isolation can provide fertile ground for new initiatives to bloom. At Christmas, a seed of an idea was sown in Castle House sitting room: Why isn’t there a...
Electric Vehicle
Electric vehicle appeal - help our community go green! By contributing towards the cost of a second hand electric vehicle, you will be helping us to stay connected while reducing our impact on the planet. Our community is committed to removing the...
Community Response to Coronavirus
Our Community Response to Coronavirus Here in EVCC we’ve been proactive in adopting measures that, hopefully, will slow the spread of the coronavirus and minimise its threat. Because we are an international community and have members with friends and relatives...
Breaking Bread Expansion
HELP US EXPAND OUR COMMUNITY BAKERY'Dear friends, customers and supporters of our bakery,It is with great joy that we can thank you today for your continuous backing of our bakery. It is because of your generous donations that we have reached our fundraising goal and...
Volunteering Vacancies
Volunteering Vacancies We have only 2 vacancies left for volunteers to join us for 6 to 12 months, starting in spring time 2020! Get in touch soon! Every year people come from around the world to volunteer in Camphill Communities, so what’s it all about? It’s...
Camphill Youth conference report
Camphill Youth Conference 2019 At the end of August, we welcomed young people from Camphill communities across the world to the Esk valley. We gathered for a weekend of talks, workshops and discussions on how we can express our Camphill values in modern times. Last...
Progress at Homefield Garden
The sessions at Homefield Garden begin by making a circle with the garden team members and reading the verse of the week from Steiner’s Calendar of the Soul. It's the time when we gather the strength and the drive before going to work on the land, and just one of the...
Bakery News September 2019
Our Breaking Bread bakery is expanding. Between orders from our community houses and sales through our partners at the Future Health Store in Whitby, we can’t bake enough! So we’ve increased bread production to three days a week and have exciting plans to expand our...
Open day
OPEN DAYEXPLORE A NEW WAY OF LIVING AND WORKING On the 29th September we will hold an EVCC open day at Homefield. This event will serve as both a launch for our new Healing Through Community project in Ainthorpe, and an opportunity to show...
Youth Conference
YOUTH CONFERENCE 2019 Esk Valley Camphill Community is holding its first youth conference this summer, where we will explore the question, 'How do we express our Camphill Values in the modern world?' All those with a young heart, and an interest in the future of...
New House
New House ‘Healing Through Community’’: The Homefield Project, Ainthorpe In April 2018, the Esk Valley Camphill Community officially launched its ‘Healing Through Community’ project in Danby Village Hall. Almost exactly a year later, we have now secured...
Breaking Bread
Breaking Bread We are reaching out into the local community with the launch of the “Breaking Bread” artisan bakery in Whitby. The bakery is a joint initiative between EVCC and the Futurehealth Store on Skinner Street, which is run by the Common Cause Community...
Healing Through Community
The founding vision for the Camphill communities was as ‘Islands of Health’, radiating out into the wider world.