About Camphill Mourne Grange
Camphill Mourne Grange was established in 1971, a home for adults with special needs who live and work together with co-workers and their families.
Camphill Mourne Grange Description
Camphill Community Mourne Grange was established in 1971, as the first adult community in Northern Ireland. It is now the home for more than 140 people, including adults with special needs who live and work together with co-workers and their families.
Lying in the foothills of the Mourne mountains in peaceful rural surroundings, Mourne Grange is a working village in which everyone participates and is interested and concerned with community life. Life in the various households is like that of a family, since co-workers and their children, young and old alike, live together without the restriction of shifts and rotas, or payment for work or time given.
The farm, gardens and orchards supply the Community with fresh produce, meat, vegetables and fruit, all without the use of chemicals and fertilisers and using bio-dynamic methods. The bakery provides fresh bread, biscuits and cakes, which can also be enjoyed in our coffee shop. The small village store makes a regular delivery of goods to each household and the laundry workshop provides a much appreciated service for the village.
The Christian festivals, along with the seasons, are important stages in the cycle of the year around which many aspects of life revolve. Thus daily work finds its place in a complete way of life and the creative possibilities of each person are enhanced.
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Our wonderful Tools for Solidarity guys are getting lots of well-earned publicity. 🛠️🔧⚙️🔨👏👏
By continuing to help the wildlife around us through winter we hope to have a spring filled with life at Mourne Grange. Here you can see us making "bird balls" and hanging feeders, small things make the biggest difference so get stuck in yourself and watch your garden or local park come alive!
A great awareness day in Asda, Kilkeel, thanks to everyone for your support and interest in our wonderful community Mourne grange. For photos check out our newly posted photo album!
Some residents worked to raise awareness of Mourne Grange among our local community at Kilkeel. By setting up an awareness stall in the local Asda they were able to talk about their lives and stories to a wide range of people over the course of the day!
Mourne Grange will be hosting an awareness stall in Kilkeel ASDA on the 7th of Feb, please come along and learn about all the creative and great work we do here in Mourne Grange. We hope to see many new and familiar faces!
Some of our co-workers had a blast trying their hand at kayaking (despite the baltic January waters) in the fantastic Carlingford Lough!
Everyone getting stuck in moving our chickens into their new home!
There is a new resident at Mourne Grange, a red squirrel! This furry friend of ours is a welcome sight and we hope to do whatever we can to ensure these beautiful animals continue to flourish. Thanks to "Heart of the Down Reds" (Twitter @heartofthedownreds) for providing the Kilkeel community with a feeder to aid us in this task!
Important news from the chicken 🐔 field! We are so grateful to the Friends of Mourne Grange for supporting our farmers in expanding our chicken population, we can't wait till we start getting lovely fresh eggs 🥚 🥚 🐔. The new house has been assembled by the dream team and the young chicks will be moving in shortly. Meanwhile the old Chickens are loving their retirement accommodation.
Did you see our film we made?
Check out the link below to watch BBC's short clip showing off some of our work within our tools workshop.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/…/camphill-commun ity-mourne-grange-gi…
Aren't the Tools for Solidarity guys just the best 👍❤️
Merry Christmas and all the very best in the New Year to all our friends ❤️🎄❤️
The Craft and Coffeeshop will be open Sunday 22 December 2 - 5/5.30 and will reopen in the new year Friday 3rd January 🎄
Thank you to Naomi, our Social Work Student on placement with us since August this year. She was a very positive addition to the Mourne Grange family and we wish her all the best with her studies and her next placement. Keep in touch Naomi!
We enjoyed the chance to experience some Irish culture as an Irish Primary school sung Christmas carols in Irish Gaelic.Thanks to Gaelscoil na mBeann for their singing!
Thank you for such a beautiful performance from the South Down Choral Society. We all really appreciate you coming to visit Mourne Grange every year and share the wonderful music that you make. Merry Christmas from everyone in Mourne Grange.
Thank you to Matthew Dexter for coming to visit our Community and providing a wonderful evening of storytelling 'A Child's Christmas in Wales'. We all enjoyed the evening and it really put us all in the Christmas spirit!