Who are we?

The community on Erraid is a small group of residents, supported by friends, volunteers, visitors and neighbours.

For nearly 50 years, the island was cared for by the Findhorn Foundation. Since 2025, stewardship has continued under a newly formed charity, The Erraid Community SCIO, which carries forward this long-standing commitment to the island.

Cooperation—among people and the land itself—is central to how the community lives. We choose a way of living that is simple. Life on a remote island comes with challenges, yet this way of ‘slow living’ is an opportunity to relearn what it means to be responsible human beings—people who care for the land, for one another, and for the future we are shaping together.

Most of our food is grown here on the island, and we aim to live with reciprocity, using local resources as much as possible. We strongly believe that community and getting back to our true nature, within nature is the future.