I’m very happy here, I wouldn’t want to move, it’s my home.
About the community
Newton Dee is a Camphill community in Aberdeen, Scotland. We offer a home, meaningful work and opportunities for personal development to adults with learning disabilities and other special needs.
In all some 200 people live and work within Newton Dee community. Around half have special needs. The others are mainly co-workers and their families. The ethos of Newton Dee is to support everyone to engage in meaningful work and to reach their fullest potential.
Newton Dee’s home life is based around large and small households ranging from four to 16 people. In addition we have some shared houses, apartments and bed-sitters.
Community News
World Economic Forum highlights Camphill Newton Dee Villlage
We were thrilled to see Camphill Newton Dee Village featured on the Facebook page of the World Economic Forum. They even made a video to go with it which you can see here. The video focuses on the power of inclusion through meaningful work. Power of in …
Vacancies and Volunteering
Life-sharing House Coordinator/s (long-term)
Type of vacancy: Long term co-worker
We are recruiting a house coordinator to run one of our life-sharing community houses which provides supported housing for adults with additional support needs. This is a diverse and challenging role, including providing overall support for our residen …
Real life stories
Archie and Juliet
Archie and Juliet live semi-independently with two others in Newton Dee. They live next door to Akiko, who helps them to prepare meals and supports them in other ways, but in the evenings they live alone and at weekends they make their own meals. They …
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