Famous caravan park founder dies

Article Published On 18 December 2006

The founder of the largest "new age" community in the UK, which was based in a caravan park, has died.

Eileen Caddy, who founded the Findhorn Foundation in a caravan site in 1962, has died at the age of 89.

Ms Caddy, who helped set up the site with her husband, was viewed as a pioneer of the "new age" by thousands across the world for her spiritual views and organic gardening.

Findhorn receives around 14,000 visitors each year, most arriving for the spiritual retreat offered by the site, which makes around £4 million for the local economy per annum.

A statement on the Findhorn Foundation website, read: "Our community, locally and globally, is celebrating her life and her release into the light of the Beloved, as Eileen herself has asked us to do rather than to mourn her death.

"In this time of transition we ask that you share in our happiness, knowing (as she would want) that all is very, very well."

There are now many "new age" businesses on the site and four hundred people in residence, living in caravans or bungalows.

 

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