Founded in 1978, and situated on a 100 acre estate in rural Perthshire near Dunkeld, Corbenic Camphill Community is a Scottish charity providing residential care and day activities for adults with complex learning disabilities. We meet the social, physical, emotional, and economic needs of 45 residents and 15 day participants, all of whom are adults with complex learning difficulties and a mixture of conditions including Autism, Dyslexia, Dyspraxia, Downs Syndrome and Fragile X Syndrome.

The Women of Achievement

We are incredibly grateful that the Women of Achievement have chosen to support Corbenic in 2026, and are indebted for any contributions we receive.

Our residents and day participants gain self-fulfilment from everyday activities participating in daily workshops including Horse Care, Garden, Farm, Craft, Pottery, Woodwork and Bakery, as well as looking after customers in the Corbenic Shop & Café in Dunkeld High Street.

Donations received will go towards the workshop and their facilities, which provide the daily therapeutic working environments that bring great satisfaction to their participants:

£50 could provide workshop materials e.g. hay and feed for the animals in the Horses Workshop, wood to build benches and chairs in Woodwork, or fabric and paint for creative projects in Craft

£250 could buy workshop tools and equipment e.g. hand tools for weeding and planting in the Garden Workshop, trays and tins for breadmaking in the Bakery, or moulds and wax melters for candle making

£1,000 or more could contribute towards major projects such as building a roof over our Horse Workshop riding area making it all-weather, or purchasing a new tractor for the Farm Workshop, or repairing the polytunnels in the Garden Workshop, or the major refurbishment of a workshop space providing improved daily facilities for multiple people

Our values and aims

• To provide the highest quality of care and support based on the principles of dignity and respect, compassion, inclusion, wellbeing, and responsiveness to individual need.

• To be a welcoming, genuine, and intentional community where members are treated, fairly, equally, listened to, empowered, and where diversity is celebrated.

• To afford choice and opportunity to all members to participate in and experience a rich cultural and spiritual life influenced by the traditions and rhythms of the Camphill movement based on life sharing and a programme of seasonal festivals.

• To provide opportunities for all members of the community to learn and develop through participation in meaningful activities that promote independence and contribute to the life of the community through work, creativity, and leisure.

• To be a community who value the environment, treating the land upon which we live, and the physical environment around us with respect and care in keeping with organic and biodynamic principles and recognising the wider concerns associated with the climate crises.

These aims are much more than words for our community where residents, day participants, families, volunteers and staff have an equal voice and status as they play their part in community life.

Evidence for this is shown in the Care Inspectorate’s latest gradings. In an unannounced visit in July 2025 we were inspected for residential services and their assessment resulted in four ‘Good’ grades and one ‘Very Good’ in the five areas inspected. In October 2023 our Day Service was inspected and we received one ‘Good’ grade and one ‘Very Good’.

Care Inspectorate Report extract post Day Service inspection, Oct 2023:

Growth & Development

The growth of our community over the past ten years and lessons learned during Covid prompted us to undertake a strategic review of our resources with a specific focus on how we use our estate for the benefit of our residents and day participants. This resulted in a 2022-27 Capital Development Programme which will enable us to double the size of our Day Service by the end of 2026 and, by 2028, increase residential numbers to 48.

Individual learning/development for residents and day participants is monitored routinely and recorded. There is staff professional evaluation as well as a clear management structure, leading to reports to Trustees and other bodies. This provides a framework within which we ‘plan, do, and review’, producing plans, budgets and the aims and objectives which shape our work.  

We are so grateful for any support you can give us.