The Community Website for The Park Ecovillage, Findhorn
About
The New Findhorn Association (NFA) is the community association for individuals and organisations connected with the Park Ecovillage Community and the Findhorn Foundation. We acknowledge to live and work by a set of Core Values laid out by the community, which we call our “Common Ground
The Findhorn Foundation has always attracted people. While some were integrated into the Foundation others settled into their own places in the vicinity. But they were looking for interaction with the Foundation people and their educational and other activities. A structure called Open Community was established to enable this. As the numbers increased there came the time when this body was ready for being more defined and organised. So in 1998 a group of people set to work to create a new organisation with a constitution of its own. What emerged is the New Findhorn Association as we see it today.
The membership of this New Findhorn Association is now defined by the intent to live by certain values and standards as laid down in the so called Common Ground and this includes non-members as well as members of the Foundation and a number of business and other Organisations. Anyone within a 50 mile radius of the Park Ecovillage may become a FULL member, anyone outside of the catchment may join as an ASSOCIATE member.
The purpose of the New Findhorn Association is the holding of community aspects as they evolve. To this effect it is equipped with two so called “Listener Conveners”, who are elected for two year terms of office, together with a number of elected Councillors who are the Board of the Association. Community issues as identified by listening to the pulse of the community are brought before the Council where it is decided which course of action to take if action is called for.
At present there are approximately 440 individual members and their families and a number of organisations. People are attracted to the community by material factors such as a less hectic lifestyle in a less densely populated area with very good infrastructure and a thriving independent school, Drumduan, and by their search for meaning in life, encouraged by the educational facilities of the Findhorn Foundation on the one hand and the “walking of this talk” by the community as a whole.
NFA Council
The New Findhorn Association has an elected Council (up to twelve councillors) and up to three Listener-Conveners.
NFA Model
The Eight Leaf Ecovillage Model. Our model covers ecology, economy, governance and much more.
NFA Constitution
Click the button below to download a copy of our constitution [pdf]
Common Ground
About Us
Collective Story
Members
Organisations
Our Common Ground
In service to spirit, humanity and the earth we hold in common the following
Principles, Essence and Guidelines
Latest News
new sanctuary update!
The next phase of building the New Sanctuary is happening, and last week Master woodworker and community friend Henry Fosbrooke came to facilitate and inspire community volunteers to put some love and care in to work on preparing some of the logs to create the large...
exploring the future of energy at the Park
At a packed presentation in Legacy on 26th June, over 40 community members turned up to hear about InterPED and how they could contribute to shaping the future energy in the Park. Over the course of three years FIRE (Findhorn Innovation Research and Education CIC)...
General election hustings
The community recently hosted a very successful general election hustings with around 190 attending, most of the participants from the local area in addition to community members. Six of the seven candidates came (all were invited) and answered questions from the...