We are doing a Christmas sale!
Why #stress yourself by not knowing what to #gift to others, and why last minute shopping? #Camphill #Community #Mourne #Grange sells unique, #hand #crafted, #environmental #friendly #candles, #wooden #bowls, wooden #pens, #woven items such as #wall #hangings, #rugs, #oven #gloves, #bags and #table #runners. Those are produced within the community by #unique #skilled #adults with #learning #disabilities. Every item is has is own unique character. Did you not find what you are looking for? Do you have something specific in…
Supporting People Annual Report 2020/21
The #Supporting #People #Annual #report for 2020/21 has just been published and it is really #positive that one of #Camphill #Community #Mourne #Grange #Good #News stories was included. In February of this year Camphill Community Mourne Grange took part in the #NI #Heart to Heart #project. This meant that some of our service users in the #Weavery #workshop #knitted or made hearts and then we delivered them to a #local #residential #home in #Kilkeel. It is lovely to remember about…
Welcome to Vera Meister
#Vera has joined #Camphill #Community #Mourne #Grange for one day a week to become part of our #therapy #team in our #beautiful #health #centre #Helios. She was previously with us for her #placement as part of her #training and we are happy to be able to invite her back to work with us. Vera qualified as a #transpersonal #arts #counsellor from the #Tobias #School of Art. Being able to offer therapies grounded in the #anthroposophical #ethos of Camphill is at…
Thank You from Dr Edel O’Neill
We are so #appreciative of the #positive #working #relationship #Camphill #Community #Mourne #Grange has with #Edel, #Consultant #Learning #Disability #Psychiatrist from the #Southern #Trust. She has really enjoyed being able to look around our #wonderful #estate and asked our #flower #workshop to arrange some beautiful #bouquets of flowers to say thank you to her #tour #guides, #Aimee, #Joanne and #Margaret. It is always a #pleasure to be able to #share the beautiful estate that we all live in.
Sharing Our Knowledge
Our #Registered #Manager, #Lizzy #Dixon, took time to #work in #partnership with #BASW (#British #Association of #Social #workers) to deliver a Continuing #Professional #Development #Seminar to a group of qualified Social workers from across the #UK #region. The seminar focused on the importance of working with people with #learning #disabilities as equal citizens and to #challenge current #systems that rely on labelling people with differences who are at the margins of our #society. The importance of #inclusion from a #young…
Making New Connections
#Camphill #Community #Mourne #Grange is delighted to establish a #new #connection to #promote and #sell the #beautiful things we make in our #workshops. We have just agreed an order of 50 #pens to be sold to #Northeast #Arc is a non-profit north of #Boston, MA that supports over 15,000 people with #disabilities or #autism each year. They have recently opened up a #gift #store, #parcels, that #exclusively sells items made by, or through #businesses owned by #people with disabilities or…
Tenant Participation in Mourne Grange
Representatives from the #Department for #Communities, #Trudy #Creane and #Dovile #Bagdonaite, visited #Camphill #Community #Mourne #Grange on the 15th #September to learn about the #wonderful #work we do to work #equally with the #people we #support to #inform #decision #making and #planning for the #future. They were accompanied by #Billy #McCreight from #Craigowan #Housing #Association. It’s wonderful to be able to share the great work we do and how important it is to genuinely work together with as a #whole…
A BIG thank you to ARC NI
Everyone in #Camphill #Community #Mourne #Grange wants to say a #BIG thank you to #ARC NI. You bring us together to #share, #celebrate and #challenge and make sure we are always looking to the #horizon and #promoting #change. We could not have managed without the support of ARC through these #difficult times with #COVID. We look forward to continuing to work together to achieve #real change for the #wonderful #family of #people with #learning #disabilities and the people who support…
Mourne Grange 50th Anniversary
Thank you to all of our #friends, #families and #Community #members who joined us for our 50th #Birthday #celebrations on the 1st of #September. In #August of 1971 a small group from #Camphill Community #Glencraig moved to #Mourne #Grange to start a new Camphill community for #adults with #special #needs. Since then Mourne Grange has continued to #grow and #flourish. Everyone enjoyed the birthday celebrations and it was a wonderful opportunity to share about the #history of Mourne Grange, how…
