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ECOVILLAGE FINDHORN, MORAY, SCOTLAND
A living experiment in
community, spirit and ecology
For over 60 years we've been exploring what it is like to live in connection with ourselves, each other and the nature that surrounds us. We're based on the beautiful Moray coast in North East Scotland, and we warmly invite you to join us in our experiment.
ACCOMMODATION
Come and visit
Individual Stays
Explore community life in Ecovillage Findhorn — begin the day with morning meditation in the Sanctuary, volunteer with the Friends of Park Garden, enjoy a wholesome meal at the Phoenix Café, or discover beekeeping in the Findhorn Hinterland.
Group Stays
Whether you're planning a retreat, family gathering or group visit, our six properties offer 25 rooms and 36 beds in the heart of Ecovillage Findhorn. Catering and bespoke programmes can also be arranged to help you make the most of your stay.
Bring Your Course
Bring your course to the heart of Ecovillage Findhorn. Our accommodation and venues provide a unique setting for retreats, workshops and conferences, with the wider Ecovillage enriching your participants' experience. We'd love to help you make it happen.
OUR ACCOMMODATION
Guest Lodge
Our main guest house at the heart of The Park.
Eight rooms accommodating 12 to 14 people, with a communal kitchen and three shared bathrooms.
Genesis
Former residence of the Caddy family, now a charming bungalow with four single bedrooms, carrying deep roots in the community's early beginnings.
Clearwater
Eco-chalet with four en-suite bedrooms, facing onto the CC Garden. With a shared living room and kitchen, it is set within its own private garden. Sleeps up to 7.
Hazel Hoose
Self-contained and centrally located within the Ecovillage. Four single rooms, a shared living room & kitchen and 2 bathrooms. An easy walk from everything.
Cornerstone
Once home to Eileen Caddy, one of Findhorn's three founders, and built by her sons. A cosy two bedroom house at the edge of the Original Garden. Sleeps up to 4.
Westwood
A two bedroom bungalow at the edge of the Ecovillage, with a conservatory overlooking the peaceful CC Garden. Wheelchair accessible. Sleeps up to 4.
CONFERENCES AT ECOVILLAGE FINDHORN
Bringing people together around ideas that matter
Ecovillage Findhorn has hosted conferences since 1976, when E.F. Schumacher and Sir George Trevelyan gathered here for World Crisis and the Wholeness of Life. Over the decades, thousands have come here to learn from pioneering thinkers, teachers and changemakers including Eckhart Tolle, Vandana Shiva, Joanna Macy and Caroline Myss.
Today, we continue that tradition by bringing people together to explore ideas, deepen understanding and build lasting connections. Through inspiring talks, practical workshops and meaningful conversations, our conferences are woven into the life of Ecovillage Findhorn—a pioneering community that has been exploring sustainable living, community and human potential for more than six decades. Here, the Universal Hall and the wider Ecovillage are part of the experience.
Healing Our World: From Despair to Repair
17 – 19 October 2026 · The Park Ecovillage, Findhorn
Practitioners, thinkers and community members gathering at the intersection of ecology, spirituality and social change.
Alan Watson Featherstone
Mike Berners-Lee
Donnachadh McCarthy
+ more speakers
Phoebe Tickell
Jason Caddy
We host several conferences each year, alongside the spring and autumn gatherings already on our calendar.
A LANDMARK, HANDBUILT BY THE COMMUNITY
The Universal Hall
Built between 1974 and 1983 by hundreds of volunteers using natural materials and ecological building techniques, the Universal Hall is a remarkable expression of the Findhorn belief that "work is love in action". For more than four decades it has been the cultural heart of the Ecovillage—a place where music, performance, learning and community come together.
A home for inspiration
Conferences and gatherings
Music, from folk to orchestral
A home for talks, learning and reflection
Festivals and seasonal celebration
A stage for ideas that matter
Today the Hall needs vital repairs and thoughtful upgrades to secure its long-term future. Whether you're drawn to its architecture, inspired by the artists who've performed here, or simply moved by the idea of a community-built venue for education, celebration and the arts, your support will help us care for this remarkable place for generations to come.
DAILY AND REGULAR LIFE
What's on at The Ecovillage
OUR HISTORY
Our origin story
In November 1962, Eileen Caddy, Peter Caddy and Dorothy Maclean arrived at the Findhorn Bay Caravan Park on the Moray coast in Scotland. Inspired by Eileen's inner guidance, Peter's practical leadership and Dorothy's deep connection with nature, something extraordinary began to take root. What started as a small vegetable garden on windswept sandy soil grew into a living experiment in community, spirituality and ecological stewardship whose influence spread around the world.
"The role of Findhorn is to help humanity turn within and be part of the solution to the chaos and confusion in the world."
EILEEN CADDY
What began with a handful of people grew, by the 1970s, into the Findhorn Foundation: the principal organisation that carried the community's spiritual and educational work out into the world. Over the decades that followed, it became a globally recognised centre for sustainable living, an NGO associated with the United Nations, and a teacher to generations of visitors, students and changemakers who came here and took what they learned back home with them.
1962
1990s
2024
1972
2023
Now
As the community grew, so did the desire for its many strands of work to stand on their own. What had been one institution became many: a network of independent, community-led organisations, each carrying forward a different part of the original vision. This is the phase we are in now — not a single entity trying to do everything, but a community ecosystem doing together what no one organisation could do alone.
In November 2024, 62 years and a day after the Caddys and Dorothy arrived at the caravan park, Ecovillage Findhorn CBS completed a community buyout of much of the central area of the Ecovillage from the Findhorn Foundation, enabled by more than £415,000 of community investment. The buyout marked the beginning of a new chapter, with Ecovillage Findhorn CBS becoming steward of these shared community assets.
Fourteen months later, the Findhorn Foundation transferred further land and buildings to Ecovillage Findhorn CBS and three other successor organisations, including Park Ecovillage Trust, Findhorn Hinterland Trust and Ekopia Social Investments Ltd. These and many other organisations now form a distinct part of the whole and contribute in their own way to the continuing life of the Ecovillage.
1962
A few people and a caravan
Eileen, Peter and Dorothy arrive at Findhorn Bay. The famous garden begins to grow.
1972
An institution takes shape
The Findhorn Foundation is established. The community grows internationally and receives UN recognition.
1990s
The Ecovillage emerges
The Park Ecovillage begins to self-organise; independent organisations form and grow.
May 2023
EF CBS Founded
Community members found Ecovillage Findhorn Community Benefit Society with a view to stewarding land at the Ecovillage.
November 2024
Community buyout completed
Over £415,000 raised. EF CBS acquires significant parts of the Ecovillage, including the Universal Hall.
Now
A community ecosystem
Multiple organisations, one living community – carrying the founding vision forward together.