Review
Botton Village Open Day
We headed up to Botton Village up in the North York Moors yesterday afternoon for their annual open day. I have only ever been to their Christmas Fayre before which was a very pleasant experience with plenty of festive activities going on. It was also a great place to buy original gifts, many of which are made on site - handmade nativity figures, lovely wooden decorations and continental breads and cakes etc.
Botton is the largest Camphill Trust community, offering people with learning disabilities the opportunity to thrive in a wider community with other adults for support and a place where they can also learn new skills. The village itself is nestled in Danby Dale, in beautiful rolling countryside inland from Whitby. It has five farms and a Waldorf Steiner school as well as the accommodation in the village.
The open day is a great day out for anyone with kids. Ours were able to partake in candle dipping, wood sawing, and watch a puppet show. There was also felt making that the girls seemed to be enjoying. My eldest son, having seen a couple of his young friends whizzing across on the Flying Fox, a fairly lofty zip wire across a beck and small (but equally intimidating) ravine, decided to try it for himself. It was lovely to see how proud he was of himself after he'd successfully whizzed across it. Botton holds its open day every year on the first Sunday in July but in the meantime there is the Christmas Fayre around November time. My youngest son is hoping that he is big enough to try the Flying Fox next year so I'm sure this summer event will be back on our calendar.
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