Welcome to Corbenic Camphill Community

Welcome to

Corbenic Camphill Community, Perthshire, Scotland

Corbenic Camphill is a community for adults with learning difficulties.

It is situated in beautiful Strathbraan, four miles from Dunkeld and 20 miles from Perth in the foothills of the Scottish Highlands.

Drumour Lodge, Corbenic

We invite you to learn about the lives of residents at Corbenic; discover job, volunteer and befriending opportunities; find out about the International Camphill Movement

Creativity via Art Therapy

Flowing from the palette

A mosaic of colours

At present, the Community comprises 65 people, including 27 adults with learning disabilities.

Residents, volunteers and employees live in 5 households within 50 acres of land.

Those with special needs play a critical, participative, central role in the life of Corbenic.

Thanks to the concerted effort of all, the Corbenic estate has been kept open and accessible during this harsh winter.

All of us, residents, co-workers, staff, volunteers, befrienders, visitors too, need to nourish body, soul and spirit.

So, the challenges of life at Corbenic call for everyone to work together, give of their best.

And to fashion creative and therapeutic solutions to challenges as they crop up.

Current vacancies

Relief Care Staff

February 2010

Snow sculptures in the trees

Our snow plough has been working flat out during the past few weeks.

Therapeutic Workshops

We have a variety of therapeutic workshops such as bakery, craft, woodwork, biodynamic gardening, candle-making, estate work, and farming.

Corbenic Camphill Community is part of the International Camphill Movement for social renewal through community living.

The community is based on the principle of living and working together with those who have special needs.

Sharing the high ground, Corbenic

Mutual respect and concern for the dignity of each person are actively fostered at Corbenic.

As is ensuring a stable and secure physical, emotional, social environment, attending to individual privacy and promoting appropriate independence.

Lochran in the Snow

Saturday, Nov 28th & The Sun Shines Down on Our Advent Market

Our Culinary Experts Waffling On to Great Public Acclaim at Our Advent Market

Our new Crafts and Estate workshops opened Fri Sept 11 by Mr John Swinney, Cabinet Secretary, the Scottish Government

Befriending at Corbenic Camphill Community

'Befriending at Corbenic has been a wonderful experience that was very enriching. I really enjoyed the time I spent getting to know everyone and they all have a special place in my heart. Everyone was very welcoming and I would recommend it thoroughly to anyone'.

Sarah - former befriender

Sunshine, shadows and silhouettes in the Corbenic garden before the wild winter snows swept in

Corbenic Camphill Community, Trochry, Dunkeld PH8 0DY, Perthshire, SCOTLAND

Tel: 01350 723 206 Fax 01350 723 300

Email: rhona@corbeniccamphill.co.uk

Registered in Scotland - Charity Number 15477

Volunteering at Corbenic Camphill Community

'My intentions of going to Scotland to live and work at a Camphill, was first of all to get experience working with adults with special needs. Secondly, I wanted to try to stand on my own two feet, and at the same time getting to know another country beyond the usual tourist-surface.

With those things I would say I succeeded during my 1½ years at Corbenic.

But I ended up gaining SO much more than that! A few days ago I heard a saying

Give a Year - Gain A Lifetime!

I guess that sums it up.'

Read more from former co-worker, Gitte Møller, Denmark in 'Memory Lane'