Findhorn Foundation

The Park Ecovillage Findhorn is at the heart of the largest intentional community in the UK, and is both a spiritual centre and one of the world's most influential ecovillages. It began in 1962 when Eileen Caddy, Peter Caddy and Dorothy Maclean planted a garden in the windswept sand of a caravan park. Their founding practices of inner listening, co-creation with nature and love in action still shape daily life.

From 1985, the community grew into a pioneering ecovillage and a living demonstration of how the spiritual, social, ecological and economic parts of life connect. Today it has more than 100 ecological buildings, four wind turbines, a Living Machine that treats wastewater biologically, a biomass boiler heating the central Park, and an ecological footprint around half the UK average. It also has its own community cooperative, a local currency and an electric car-sharing club. Findhorn is a founding member of the Global Ecovillage Network, has twice received UN-Habitat Best Practice status, and is used as a learning environment by universities, schools and municipalities around the world.

Today Findhorn is a family of community-led organisations sharing one place. Come for an Experience Week or a residential programme with the Findhorn Foundation (with tiered pricing and bursaries available), attend a conference in the hand-built Universal Hall, or stay in one of Ecovillage Findhorn's guest houses to experience community life at your own pace. If you can't travel, you can join the free online meditation every weekday morning.

You can support Findhorn by donating to the Foundation's bursary fund or the Universal Hall restoration, or by becoming a member of or investor in Ecovillage Findhorn CBS, the community benefit society that led the 2024 community buyout of the heart of the village.