Day Services Further information Thornage Hall offers a range of Day Services in We have other leaflets that will provide further traditional arts and craft and land based activities. information on: We assess everyone on their skill development and • Day Services Living, learning and working together run the workshops like a work place to help • Biodynamic farming people progress. • Products we have for sale • How you can help (including volunteering, gap years, donating money and corporate We currently have opportunities in: support)

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Thornage Hall Thornage Holt Weaving and textiles NR25 7QH Tel: 01263 860305 Fax: 01263 861754 Email: [email protected] IT www.thornagehall.co.uk

A member of the Association of Camphill Communities Our vision is for an environmentally A non-profit making Company No. 2152319 limited by guarantee, and a Registered Charity No. 297496 sustainable world where everyone can Cooking and baking Patron: The Rt Rev. The Bishop of . Founder Patron: The Rt Hon. The Lord Hastings. live, learn and work together regardless We are a Green100 business recognising environmentally of ability or disability. sustainable practice across Norfolk and Suffolk. What we do High quality care and support Supported Living Thornage Hall provides supported living The high quality care and support that is both given We believe that everyone has accommodation in 5 houses located in the and received, makes Thornage a very special place the right to choose how they for all who come here. live their life. We work closely beautiful surroundings of the Thornage with Freebridge Housing to Hall estate in . “I think you should all be immensely proud of provide a high standard of We run a biodynamic farm which provides Thornage it has such a wonderful, calm, happy accommodation. Tenants live Supported Living food for those living in our houses, as well feel…its not just the plants that flourish, people, together supported by our staff cows and chickens all look blooming” Visitor to live the life they choose as independently as sales to local organic outlets. We have as possible. Our ethos focuses on supporting built on the success of the farm and individuals through the strength of the community converted farm buildings into studios for to reach their potential. our Day Services offering a range of craft, IT and artistic activity – greatly enriching Everyone is different and we ensure that through the lives of those people with learning our person centred, holistic approach we tailor the disabilities who have a thirst to develop support and care at a level that is right for each new skills within a working environment. individual. Support for individuals is strengthened by the wider support of the community, including other “I love being at Thornage, it is like a big family” Kim M tenants, staff and volunteers, as well as the wider community around Thornage and Holt. Community based support “I like all the different festivals and being in the play for A Midsummer Night’s dream, I played a Camphill Communities were inspired by the work of fairy bug and Hippolyta, it was very good” Julie E Rudolf Steiner and Karl Konig. They were based on an ethos that recognises the uniqueness of all “We would like to say something about the staff – individuals and seeks to respect, value and enhance from the farm and garden to the weaving and the strengths and potential of everyone. workshops from the office to The Hall we find them all to be friendly, enthusiastic, hard working and motivated. We know our son relates to each and everyone of them and they are helping in his development in so many ways” Parent

Community support to be an individual Respect Equality Today we continue to provide support as part of a community. Through the Environmental community individuals are supported to develop their Sustainability own unique strengths in order to reach their Choice & Self Dignity potential. At the same time, in order to thrive our Determination community relies on the uniqueness of all the At the heart of everything we do individuals within it.