Annual Report 2010/11

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The Findhorn Foundation is a spiritual community, an ecovillage, and a centre for holistic learning with an international reputation as a unique laboratory for change. We offer a broad range of workshops, events, and a variety of ways to participate, with the aim of inspiring and demonstrating new ways of living for a peaceful and sustainable world.

We recognise that the future health of humankind and the natural world depends upon a widespread change in worldview and attitudes in order to generate new systems that are inclusive and compassionate. The Findhorn Foundation aims to provide experiences and tools to help people relate to each other and to the world in new ways, drawing upon the inherent capacity

of all people for insight, caring and cooperation.

The unique environment of our constantly evolving community and ecovillage gives participants practical experience of how to apply sustainable values in daily life.

We work in partnership with the United Nations, Global Ecovillage Network, New Findhorn Association, Moray Council, Highlands and Islands Enterprise/Moray, Voluntary Action Moray, Moray Social Enterprise Network, universities, healthcare providers and others, offering demonstration and inspiration for sustainable change. Our ecological footprint is one of the lowest recorded for a community in the industrialised world, and is just half the UK national average.

FINDHORN FOUNDATION’S CONTRIBUTION TO THE UN DECADE OF EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT The overall goal of the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (DESD) is to integrate the principles, values, and practices of sustainable development into all aspects of learning.

Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) engages with such key issues as human rights, poverty reduction, sustainable livelihoods, climate change, gender equality, corporate social responsibility and protection of indigenous cultures in an integral way. ESD is shaping the purpose and content of all education for our times and is education for the present and the future!

ESD programmes at the Findhorn Foundation - Ecovillage Design Education (in its 7th year) and Ecovillage Training (in its 14th year) have been official contributors to the main learning goals of the UN DESD since its launch in 2005. Our programmes provide an ideal learning environment where the social, ecological, economic and worldviews aspects of sustainability meet in an integrated whole.

The Findhorn Foundation is an NGO Associated with the Department of Public Information of the United Nations and is regularly represented in UN briefing sessions.

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1JPOFFSJOH 4VTUBJOBCMF 4PMVUJPOT Since its founding in 1962 the Findhorn community has worked in co-creation with the intelligence of nature to awaken the highest in human potential. All who engage here, residents and visitors, find an environment to foster profound personal change, seed new ideas, and birth practical projects to meet the worldwide challenges and opportunities of our times.

Holistic Approach to Sustainability The Findhorn Foundation pioneers a holistic approach to sustainability that integrates four aspects - spiritual, social, environmental and economic. By developing not just the externals of sustainability such as ecohousing, ecological sewage treatment systems and renewable energy, but also addressing the inner life of human beings and giving them an opportunity to experience being part of an interconnected web of life, the Foundation has become a unique centre for learning and a valuable and potent force for change.

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have space to grow, and where learning takes place naturally through ordinary activities in daily life. Practising community values for a month, a week, or even a day can often lead to changes that increase self-esteem, promote healthy relationships, give a sense of empowerment and can encourage leadership. Our activities give often rise to further new projects, systems and structures that support and sustain humans and our environment. The Findhorn Foundation is a founding member of Global Ecovillage Network, New Findhorn Association, Park Ecovillage Trust, Ekopia Resource Exchange, CIFAL Findhorn, and several other initiatives.

The Findhorn Foundation currently has 120 members of staff and is part of a growing community of more than 300 people in the local area who support and practise sustainable values, including small businesses and charities primarily working in education, the environment, healing and the arts.

We are proud of our pioneering role and look forward to continuing as a seed centre, catalysing and demonstrating effective and sustainable change, and to helping to co-create a positive future for humanity and the planet.

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I entered my first six months in the LEAP programme in Cullerne Garden with the purpose of meeting the challenges of the garden and fully living my potential. Each day has provided a myriad of opportunities for personal and spiritual growth, of balancing the work demands of a production garden, being fully present for the people I work with, and bringing spirit into every moment. I’ve developed more resilience in times of conflict, gained more confidence in my self-expression and a greater sense of equanimity with the joys and challenges of community life. My perspective has broadened beyond the ripple effect of inner change - I’m now more conscious of living sustainably and how each small choice I make can make a subtle difference in the world.

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$IBOHJOH UIF 8PSME GSPN UIF *OTJEF 0VU -FBSOJOH $FOUSF How can individual people, or social ventures, businesses and government agencies, address world issues such as climate change, economic insecurity, sustainability and human rights, and really feel as though they have the power to make a difference? A worldview which sees the interconnection of all life can provide a sense that what each individual chooses to do or not do in their own life is important, and that it can have a positive effect on the world. The direct experience of living in the Findhorn community environment encourages an inclusive worldview and stimulates learning that is transformative for both individuals and for society as a whole.

As a learning centre the Foundation welcomed 3911 residential guests in the period 2010/11, an increase of 6% over the previous year. Approximately three quarters of these guests took part in Essential Findhorn programmes; these are workshops that are unique to Findhorn and based on participation in community life and values. Income from our full range of workshops and events totalled ÂŁ1.34 million, an increase of 3% over last year.

The results for this year highlight the relevance and effectiveness of the Findhorn Foundation’s work in this time of increasing financial uncertainty and challenge

in the world. Participants in our workshops came from 54 countries, 59% were from the UK.

"DIJFWJOH 0VS (PBMT BOE 7JTJPO Our goals last year were to develop a range of new workshops to extend Essential Findhorn programmes, and to widen our reach to new sections of the public via our Building Bridges programme, including those who are less physically able and those who are vulnerable in society. To help us deliver these objectives, we also embarked on a vigorous strategy to raise funds to update and build new workshop facilities. We worked hard this year to launch these new initiatives and have seen them begin to bring results.

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Another new offering is -JWJOH 8IPMF 4IBQJOH B 'VUVSF PG (SBDF #FBVUZ BOE 4VTUBJOBCJMJUZ, a series of workshops developed in collaboration with the Lorian Association in the USA. Based on the success of this year’s programme, there will be three modules of Living Whole in 2011. This workshop includes one residential week at Findhorn, plus video conferencing and an online learning community.

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Our Building Bridges initiative broadens the spectrum of people engaging with the Foundation by offering programmes that are specifically designed for diverse groups of people. It has developed new links with local schools, Moray Council, agencies for the socially excluded and also with corporate clients.

As we endeavoured to respond to growing interest from a wide range of organisations working with people with special needs, we discovered that very few of our buildings and facilities were suitable to make all people welcome. We therefore committed ourselves to a series of improvements to existing facilities and to creating a new, fully accessible and ecological workshop facility and meeting space.

The Foundation plans to run a pilot in 2011 in conjunction with Action for Children and Throughcare & Aftercare to welcome local disadvantaged youth for a longer-term project in our Cullerne Gardens, and will then seek funding to continue this project next year if it is successful. Young people will have the opportunity to experience looking after their own garden project and to see the results of their work, while gaining selfconfidence and learning about healthy relationships, communication and other community skills.

This year Building Bridges ran a four-day pilot programme for 27 young corporate entrepreneurs working in the field of climate change and sustainability internationally. They were invited by friend of the Foundation and author of Beautiful Corporations, Paul Dickinson. The success of this pilot has led to two more programmes planned for June and July 2011.

We also welcomed a number of visits by schools, colleges and other groups, local and UK-wide, for tours, individually designed short workshops, and field visits.

Building Bridges has achieved its income target of £25,000 in its first year of operation.

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This new workshop facility was built this year, financed by donations and grants received, for a cost of £67,000. It is fully accessible by people with physical disabilities and uses the best in sustainable building techniques, including the use of FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) certified timber (a renewable resource), highest specification double glazing for energy efficiency, and a rainwater collection system for flushing toilets. Its wildlife and bee friendly garden will be created with the help of a grant from the Big Lottery Community Wildlife Fund and will engage the participation of children from local primary schools in its design and implementation.

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The Foundation benefitted from the help of four students taking part in projects supported by the European Voluntary Service, a Youth in Action programme of the European Commission. The students, from Hungary, Bulgaria and Norway, worked in the Foundation’s gardens on projects to support the local bee population, create edible landscapes, establish a ‘chicken tractor’, and create a demonstration homegrown food garden with learning materials.

A new programme to train prospective staff members, the Living Education Apprentice Programme, was launched this year and has so far been a huge success with uptake so lively we have had to work hard to find accommodation spaces for all who are qualified to participate. Although a staff position may not be found for all who participate, the LEAP programme provides a useful six-month training that can be used anywhere and applied in any area of life.

1BSUOFSTIJQT GPS B 1PTJUJWF 'VUVSF 'JOEIPSO &DPWJMMBHF The Findhorn Ecovillage received Best Practice designation from the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (Habitat) in 1998. As an ecovillage the Foundation offers a built environment to inspire and demonstrate what can be achieved in harmony with the intelligence of nature. In this setting we offer ecovillage workshops, trainings and tours, often in partnership with other organisations such as Findhorn College, Park Ecovillage Trust, and CIFAL Findhorn (part of the Local Development Programme of the United Nations Institute of Training and Research, delivering training in various aspects of sustainability).

&EVDBUJPO GPS 4VTUBJOBCMF -JWJOH This year Findhorn College, in partnership with the School of the Built Environment, Heriot-Watt University, created a three-week Findhorn residential module for the school’s MSc Sustainable Community Design course, due to run in 2011. Students will learn about cutting edge theory and practice in sustainable community design, and will have the opportunity to participate in community activities to gain deeper insight into the workings of the Findhorn Ecovillage as a community-scale experiment in sustainable living practice.

Again with Findhorn College we were proud to host the first-ever gathering in Europe of the North American Bioneers. This movement connects innovators in farming, education, science and social justice, with engaged citizens who are creating change in their own communities and workplaces. Bioneers

produces educational materials used by colleges, schools and community-based organisations in the USA. We were joined by 120 local and international participants for the gathering, including 21 participants who were supported by grants through the European Commission’s Grundtvig Lifelong Learning Programme.

The Transition to Resilience training programme is a new two-year curriculum being created in a Europewide partnership of eight organisations including the Findhorn Foundation, Global Ecovillage Network, Transition Network UK and Centre for Human Emergence. It brings together experts in the field of sustainable education to develop a practical, experiential and immersive learning path for people working in local government and non-governmental organisations who are engaged in creating sustainable living environments.

The programme is being developed with the funding support of the Grundtvig Lifelong Learning Programme.

8PSLJOH BT BO /(0 The Foundation participates in United Nations activities as an Non-Governmental Organisation and this year again offered our successful Ecovillage Training and Ecovillage Design Education programmes in support of the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development, 2005 - 2014. In 2010 the Foundation became a founding member of the newly formed NGO Committee on the Environment which meets in Geneva and comprises approximately 20 NGOs interested in furthering and strengthening an environmental perspective in all areas of the United Nations agenda and in public policy.

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&DPWJMMBHF %FWFMPQNFOU As part of the implementation of our carbon neutral strategy the Foundation has installed a biomass heating system to heat several buildings within The Park. The build was aided by a grant of £156,671 from Community Energy Scotland and an interest free loan of £100,000 from the Energy Saving Trust (the latter received after the year ending 31 January 2011). Total cost of the biomass heating system was £335,000. As well as reducing our carbon footprint by a further 100 tonnes per year, the biomass system will also save the Foundation around £12,000 a year in fuel charges.

The Foundation is planning to construct two ecomobile homes in 2011, with a third added when funds are raised, to accommodate four members of staff in the Pineridge West area of The Park. The ecomobile structures recognise the Foundation’s beginnings as a caravan park, and are a simple and compact design developed to include the highest specification for energy efficiency with a low carbon footprint.

Two further areas of The Park are planned for development in the near future; community company Duneland Ltd will construct 24 private houses on land purchased in 1997 to extend the ecovillage, and a small cluster of houses at the eastern end of The Park will be created as part of the Soillse project to bring permaculture values into a built environment.

As the community approaches its 50th birthday in 2012 we are moving to a new stage that resembles a small village. The Findhorn Foundation is no longer the sole major landowner within The Park and stewardship of land and infrastructure is held in a 7

Titleholders Association. The physical expansion of the ecovillage has meant that the whole community is now looking also at its structures, governance and organisation for the future.

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As a graduate of the MSc in Holistic Science at Schumacher College, I have searched widely for a curriculum that is truly holistic in its approach to applying the theoretical insights of the new holistic/ecological worldview to the practical dimensions of the sustainability transition. As far as I am aware, the EDE curriculum is currently the best and most comprehensive approach to turning holistic and joined-up thinking about sustainability into action. It really helps people to get a pretty complex whole picture view of the various dimensions of the sustainability transition and, what’s more, it offers them effective tools and strategies for how they can play an active part in this work of generational importance. I can only highly recommend this course.

Dr Daniel C Wahl, University of Dundee, Centre for the Study of Natural Design

4QJSJU PG UIF 'VUVSF As the Foundation moves towards its 50th anniversary year in 2012 we have embarked on ambitious plans - The Spirit of the Future - to ensure our next 50 years and beyond will continue to deliver services to promote positive change in all aspects of sustainability.

.FEJB .BUUFST The Foundation has worked hard over the past five years to strengthen brand identity and increase recognition through consistent use of logo, colour, and message across all our promotional materials. The vast majority of people who book our workshops and conferences do so through hearing about us by word of mouth, reflecting our extremely high participant satisfaction levels. The Foundation has also enjoyed a steady stream of media interest and coverage - television, radio and print - both nationally and internationally.

More than 90% of the Foundation’s workshops and conferences are booked online via our website, making it a crucial aspect of our marketing. This year we have made our website easier to maintain and at the same time updated the functioning and overall look of the site.

The site features our full programme of courses, online booking and donations, and also includes daily inspirational readings and news about community life and sustainability issues, creating an ongoing sense of community. Over the year there were 757,265 visits to the site (approximately 14,500 per week) from people in 211 countries/territories.

,FFQ PO (SPXJOH Our plan is to explore the feasibility of developing a range of facilities that will be innovative and sustainable and meet the needs of the Findhorn Foundation and the wider community now and for the next several years. We have raised a grant of £10,000 from Investing In Ideas (after the year ended 31 January 2011) towards this work and are looking particularly at the entrance area of The Park and improving the facilities located there.

Many of our existing buildings are old and no longer fit for purpose. We would like to meet the growing need for a new visitor/sustainability-learning centre to serve visitors to the Findhorn Foundation, Findhorn College and other local enterprises, and to serve the needs of the local community in Moray. We would like to increase our capacity to accommodate guests residentially in The Park by constructing two new guest accommodation buildings.

made available to local initiatives and organisations to help boost the local Moray economy.

We are enthusiastically continuing the development of new education services in order to reach a wider audience, endeavouring to reach more people and provide them with tools to increase the quality of their lives, lightening our ecological footprint by replacing caravans and energy inefficient buildings and systems with ecological alternatives, and continuing as a holistic demonstration centre for sustainability.

Over the next three years we will be looking for approximately £800,000 to refurbish and improve the Universal Hall, including replacing electrical wiring and possibly building an extension. We will need to renew the toilet facilities in the Community Centre and make them accessible for all, including people with visual impairment or mobility difficulties.

We will progress a project to develop a portable web streaming facility to allow people anywhere in the world to view conferences, trainings, meetings and events at Findhorn, thus reducing their environmental footprint. This resource will also be

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Our performance last year seems to illustrate that, in times of economic crisis and when the quest for security and certainty is both at its highest and at its most elusive, the drive for deeper meaning and real security - both inner and outer - is intensified. The Foundation excels in providing real experiential learning to enable groups and individuals to build the resilience, and develop the optimism, needed to serve wisely in these times of unprecedented change and challenge.

We look ahead to continuing to provide all this, while developing the revenue and funding streams to both broaden the diversity of the people who come here, and to continue building inspiring infrastructure to house them, our staff and our workshops. I would like to take this opportunity to give my thanks for all your support and interest. I look forward to another year of working together in service.

Robin Alfred Chair of Trustees

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There was an operating surplus for the year of £129,918. Overall income for the year showed a decrease to £1,982,509 (-8.5%). However, in the previous year income was unusually high as The Findhorn Foundation received the first part of a generous legacy (£400,000) from former community member and trustee Tom Welch. This year we received the final instalment of £52,675 from Tom Welch’s legacy and a grant of £156,671 for our biomass heating system. Workshops income increased by 3% with an increase also in other education income.

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Total costs increased to ÂŁ1,852,591 (+8.8%) through a rise in staffing costs and depreciation. Net Assets increased to ÂŁ4,779,364 (+4%), mainly due to the build of the biomass boiler system and the build of our new fully accessible education facility that allows us to reach a wider public, including people with physical disabilities.

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All images are Š Findhorn Foundation and Adriana Sjan Bijman, Avalon dos Santos, Carin Bolles, Eva Ward, Geoff Dalgish, Graham Meltzer, Mark Anderson, Michael Mitton, Thomas George, Sverre Koxvold, Silke Galla, Ash Balderson, Bill Arras, Hugo Klip, Eian Smith and Yasko Takahashi

This project has been funded with support from the European Commission.

This publication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.