Editing Findhorn Foundation (section)

{{Short description|Charitable trust of intentional community}}
{{Other uses|Findhorn (disambiguation)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2025}}

{{Infobox organization
|name         = Findhorn Foundation and Community
|image        = Findhorn-Foundation-and-Community.jpg
|size         = 280px
|caption      = Findhorn community members in front of the Ecovillage (2012)
|formation    = {{Start date and age|1962}}
|purpose      =  Spirituality
|headquarters = [[Findhorn]], [[Moray]], Scotland
|region_served = Worldwide
|website      = [http://www.findhorn.org Findhorn Foundation]
}}
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The '''Findhorn Foundation''' is a Scottish [[charitable trust]] registered in 1972, formed by the spiritual community at the [[Findhorn Ecovillage]], one of the largest [[intentional communities]] in Britain.<ref name=DictAlt>''The Dictionary of Alternatives: Utopianism and Organization'', by Martin Parker, Valerie Fournier, Patrick Reedy. Zed Books, 2007. {{ISBN|1-84277-333-X}}. Page 100.</ref> It has been home to thousands of residents from more than 40 countries. The Foundation closed all its educational programmes in September 2023 whereas the Findhorn community eco village at Findhorn houses about 40 community businesses such as the Findhorn Press and an alternative medicine centre.<ref name=DictAlt/><ref name=findhornorg>[http://www.findhorn.org Findhorn.org] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070625014209/http://www.findhorn.org/ |date=25 June 2007}} Findhorn Official website. "[help] unfold a new human consciousness and [create] a positive and sustainable future"</ref><ref name=ch/>

Before the Findhorn Foundation in 1972, there was a Findhorn Trust as more people joined [[Eileen Caddy]], [[Peter Caddy]] and [[Dorothy Maclean]], who had arrived at the Caravan Park at Findhorn Bay on 17 November 1962. The Findhorn Foundation and surrounding [[Findhorn Ecovillage]] community at The Park, [[Findhorn]], a village in [[Moray]], Scotland, and at Cluny Hill in [[Forres]], is now home to more than 400 people.<ref name=DictAlt/>

The Findhorn Foundation and the surrounding community have no formal doctrine or creed. The Foundation were offering a range of workshops, programmes and events in the environment of a working [[ecovillage]] and at Cluny  Hill Hotel in nearby Forres.

Findhorn Ecovillage has been awarded UN Habitat Best Practice designation from the [[United Nations Centre for Human Settlements]] (HABITAT), and regularly holds seminars of [[CIFAL|CIFAL Findhorn]], a [[United Nations Institute for Training and Research]] (UNITAR), affiliated training centre for Northern Europe.<ref name=BBC_UNITAR>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/north_east/5370390.stm Moray to be base for UN training] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121122103639/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/north_east/5370390.stm |date=22 November 2012}} [[BBC News]], 22 September 2006.</ref><ref name=CIFAL_Habitat>[http://www.cifalfindhorn.org/ Findhorn Ecovillage. Awarded UN Habitat Best Practice designation, the Ecovillage has a reputation for being at the cutting edge of the sustainability global movement] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081003011708/http://www.cifalfindhorn.org/ |date=3 October 2008}}.</ref>