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Camphill Community Glencraig - Home
Description
Since its beginnings in 1940, the Camphill Movement has been an ongoing and evolving experiment in community building. As trends in Western society have tended to isolate and alienate the individual, and direct attention away from the "inner man" towards an increasing emphasis upon the material elements of life, various impulses have appeared which have attempted, in one way or another, to provide a balance.
The Camphill Movement is one such impulse, since, although every member of each community is encouraged to develop his or her individual potential to the full, the responsibility of each member for all the others is vitally important.
In Northern Ireland there are now four centres. At Glencraig near Holywood in Co. Down, opened in 1954, at Mourne Grange near Kilkeel in Co Down, opened in 1971, at Clanabogan near Omagh in Co. Tyrone, which began in 1984, and more recently a coffee shop, bakery and shop in the centre of Holywood town which opened in 1997.
