Land & Community Worker Sought for Retreat and Festival Site, Near Cirencester, Glos
Land & Community Worker Sought for Retreat and Festival Site, Near Cirencester, Glos
Meet Nico, landowner of 15 acres of fields and woodland either side of  the infant river Thames that runs through the site. The land is currently used for running retreats and residencies, holiday letting, music and poetry festivals including Rumifest for a few hundred guests, as well as some grazing by a local shepherd. Nico is interested in bringing diverse, long term, land based enterprises on to the site which would work alongside the current activity and ideally compliment it. Nico is interested in ecological projects and rewilding religious traditions. He is especially interested in groups seeking to find new relationships with land, looking to revive cultural festivals, storytelling, traditional crafts, foraging and wellness projects. While a landseeker wouldn’t necessarily be involved in this work they would need to be open to it.
There would be access to some barns which could be used for workshops, the opportunity to interact with visitors and Cirencester just 7 mins and Stroud 20 mins drive away where there is lots of potential for community engagement and routes to market. The land is slightly sloping grazed pasture with some woodland and two bridges – one stone one wooden – to cross the river. It is in an area of outstanding natural beauty and so it would not be possible to install a polytunnel or other infrastructure which would require planning permission. There is parking, compost loos are in development, electricity, bore hole and river water.
This opportunity would suit a landseeker with an appreciation for spiritual approaches to land work and an interest in working with communities in connection to their farm practice.
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