OUR RESIDENTS benefit from the urban environment and have their individual work and activity schedules. Some work in a local pottery, bakery or a food-processing workshop nearby; one person works as an assistant at Sunland's Kindergarten; and a number of our residents take courses at Stroud Further Education College; all are empowered to carry responsibility for some domestic chores. We also offer therapeutic and crafts activities for certain individuals and in small group sessions.
Some of our residents in due course seek voluntary or paid employment in the Stroud area. The large garden with pond is one of our own work facilities that also occasionally offers an opportunity for therapeutic work for patients of the Medical Practice. Some students and trainees from a Camphill college nearby join us on work experience.
An important strand of our life and work is the support and fostering of life skills, individual social relationships, and cultural-spiritual needs and interests of all those who are part of this community. There is a lot of interaction between different initiatives in Stroud. Most of us take an active part in forming this wider network.