As I write it’s only May and yet it feels like summer is already upon us, with so many sunny days, warmth in the air and the trees, plants, birds, bees and other creatures making hay whilst the sun shines! We could do with rain because of the mounting fire risk but I am sure […]
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Beams, barrels and benches: FHT and the Light of Findhorn Sanctuary
After four years, our community once again has a brand new Sanctuary! From the provenance of the beams to the benches to the barrels, there are many significant stories to tell – and the Findhorn Hinterland Trust played an important role every step of the way. Easter Sunday, 20 April 2025 – the day the […]
Chair’s Report – Winter/ Spring 2025
It seems a long time since our winter gathering event at the Woodland Shelter, when a good crowd coalesced around the fire collecting Christmas trees, and the other event around that time, when Santa Claus was once again installed in the Conservation Hub as part of the Christmas trail put on by Laura Pasetti and […]
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Chair’s Report – Autumn/Winter 2024
Autumn on the land has been beautiful with the seasonal change of colours and fungi making their presence known with their fruiting bodies once again present to our eyes – the natural world has been busy and so have the FHT human team with so much going on. This busyness was particularly evident during our […]
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Dune Restoration Project – Celebrating the First Phase Completion
It has taken over a year of planning, fundraising, connecting with other organisations and similar projects, gathering and reading background material, disseminating information to raise public awareness, writing articles, organising information sharing events and simply thinking about our Dune Restoration project. It is with a great feeling of relief and pride that on Wednesday 20th November we finally finished the first phase – converting 0.8ha of dense gorse back to open sand dunes.
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Meet the Team – Neil Meikleham
Neil and his wife Heather have newly arrived from living in Auroville in the south of India and are now living in Kinloss. With his background in science, plants and communities he was naturally drawn to the work of the FHT and was voted onto the board of trustees at our September AGM. Welcome Neil […]
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From Tree to Carpentry – Creating the New Sanctuary Benches
It was the 12th of April, 2021 when both the Community Centre and Sanctuary, the heart and soul of what is now called the Park Ecovillage Findhorn, went up in flames through an act of arson. Over three years later the new Sanctuary is being built by Greenleaf Design and Build as part of the […]
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Celebrating What the Findhorn Hinterland Does
Last Year’s Activities and Achievements I did a similar thing last year to reflect on the many events and successes of the Trust by sharing the text that will be sent to the charity regulator in the FHT annual report from 1st April 2023 to the 31st March 2024. I think it important to share […]
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Chair’s Report – Spring/Summer 2024
This summer I was once again away from Findhorn for the whole month of July in the privileged position of being able to explore the magnificent country of Scotland by sailboat – this year Shetland, the Orkney Islands, round Cape Wrath to the far northwest of the mainland, all down the Outer Hebrides from Lewis […]
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FHT receives global Nature30 status
The Findhorn Hinterland has become the country’s first to receive official recognition as a Nature30 site, part of a global movement to ensure that by 2030 a least 30% of the planet is effectively protected or conserved for nature. The 20th of August 2025 was a very special day for the Findhorn Hinterland Trust charity: […]