Supporting Local Help
As a #community and a big #family, #Camphill #Mourne #Grange would like to thanks everyone for all the numerous #kind and #supportive #messages regarding the #passing of #Hayley #Sargent. THANK YOU! If you wish to #donate #flowers, please do not. However we would #love if you could support #Air #Ambulance #NI >> DONATE HERE << as they where of great support on that very sad day. Once again, THANK YOU!!
Hayley Sargent 22.12.1963 – 06.03.2022
We are devastated to share with you that our #friend #Hayley #Sargent left us yesterday Sunday March the 6th 2022. Born 22.12.1963, Hayley, with her much loved husband and best friend Andy, joined #Camphill #Beannachar in #Scotland in 1988 and later moved to Camphill #Community #Mourne #Grange, exactly 25 years ago this year. Hayley carried the community in every step she took and no detail was ever too small for her touch and #gift for #creating #beauty and #form. She…
Candlemas Celebration 2022
On the left, #Geoff and #John planting an #ashtree, where a new belt of trees will be planted. Following our custom on #Candlemas Day we put several #candles into the #Earth and lit them to mark #winter gradually coming to an end and looking forward towards #spring. We also remember Dr #Arthur #Mitchell with these trees and candles. The candles had been made in the #Camphill #Community #Mourne #Grange Candle #Workshop and #Oliver give a short introduction to the #festival…
Consultation on The Reform Of Adult Social Care
#Camphill #Community #Mourne #Grange has taken part in the #production of this #public #consultation #document, outlining a proposed #plan to #reform our #adult #social #care #services in #Northern #Ireland. It was great to be involved at this level of planning and hopefully contributing to a #better #future for #people with #disabilities. Please take time to follow the link to #contribute your own #thoughts and #ideas about adult social care services. The picture on the front of the document features two…
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…
