What’s Happening

Our Narrow Boat Holiday

Our Narrow Boat Holiday

In July, an Esk Valley crew headed to Anderton Marina to commandeer the Black Necked Swan narrow boat for a week cruising the canals of Cheshire. As the name would suggest, a narrow boat is in fact quite narrow. There are four bunk beds at the front and four at the...

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Community Earth Festival

Community Earth Festival

When the Community Earth Festival was conceived by Esk Valley Camphill Community in late 2021, none of us could have imagined what it would grow into. Indeed, so varied and wide-ranging have been the 40 odd events across the area over the summer, that it is really...

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Sharing our Lives conference

Sharing our Lives conference

In February, Esk Valley Camphill Community hosted an inclusive conference for life sharing communities in the English region. This involved around 30 community members from Sturts Farm, The Mount, Gannicox, as well as several other small life sharing initiatives....

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The Value of Work

The Value of Work

The well-being of a community of people working together will be the greater, the less the individual claims for himself the proceeds of his work, i.e. the more of these proceeds he makes over to his fellow-workers, the more his own needs are satisfied, not out of his...

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James Wins a Human Rights Award

James Wins a Human Rights Award

We were thrilled to learn that James Harris has won the Shared Lives Plus human rights award for free expression. Each year it is given to a person supported by a Shared Lives carer for speaking their mind, growing in confidence, and living the life they choose. James...

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Art Exhibition

Art Exhibition

In June, a group of EVCC artists exhibited their paintings in a small community gallery in a Middlesbrough shopping centre. It's a modest place and yet the two people who run it, Adrian and Miranda, have worked miracles with it. It’s such an inviting space where...

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The Homecoming of Odysseus

The Homecoming of Odysseus

Over many years, Botton-as-it-used-to-be would set aside a week in July or August for summer school. All but essential work came to a halt and pretty much the whole community devoted itself to a project, usually culminating in a performance of some kind (even if there...

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Eurythmist vacancy

Eurythmist vacancy

We are looking for a eurythmist for our community. This must be someone who not only wants to practice and develop their profession but is wanting to live in and be an active member of a Camphill community. In its previous existence as the Botton Village Camphill...

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New garden season

New garden season

With the echoes of Candlemas, and perhaps Imbolc for some of us, we make our ways into the nourishing realm of spring. The snowdrops are living up to their name and painting the soil with green and white, and the daffodils are poking their heads up, although their...

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