What’s Happening
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....
We are recruiting long-term House Coordinators
We are looking to recruit people wishing to join our Camphill community and run a Shared-Lives household, ideally a couple, either with or without children. House coordinators share their homes with three community members with a learning disability or autism and...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Advent Fair, and The Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future
If 2021 has been about trying to adapt to the New Normal in a pandemic world, for our community the question has been about how to retain a healthy social life while we navigate through the changes. Too often, we find ourselves having to cancel the events we have...
Breaking Bread Update
The long awaited second oven has arrived at Breaking Bread Community Barkery, and not a moment too soon! Along with orders from EVCC and regular customers in the wider community, the joint enterprise with our partners at Common Cause has a growing list of commercial...