Coming up in 2025- the fourth Essex Green Weekend! The theme will be Water for Life. Booking will open from October this year, go to our website for more details:Essex Green Weekend | Othona Essex
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by Bradwell Office
Sunday 7th July 2024
Do you currently use the D4 bus to get from Southminster to the Othona Community? If so, hopefully you are aware that this service is being replaced later this month by the D45 service, this runs much less frequently with no Saturday service and currently is not timetabled to come all the way to the community unfortunately. We are encouraging people to take a moment to fill in a bus users survey in the hope that this will encourage a rethink of the local transport strategy. The D4 service is really important for people, both locally and those visiting, without their own transport.
Thanks for your help:
by Bradwell Office
Thursday 4th July 2024
We are delighted to have this beautiful watercolour painting from the artist Stephen Jordan to auction to help raise funding for the yurt refurbishment.
Stephen painted this view of the Peace Garden and Chapel from the back balcony of the Solar building. You can see the original painting in the dining room at Othona. We are having a sealed bid auction so you can either place a secret bid when you visit, in the designated box, or send in your bid by email.
We will announce the highest bid at the end of the summer season on the 30th August.
by Bradwell Office
Thursday 4th July 2024
If you would like to find out more about the types of wildflowers growing at Othona then please take a look at this video, made by Jonney, showing some of the species here:
by Bradwell Office
Saturday 29th June 2024
The BCC minutes from the last meeting in May 2024 are now available to view, click on the link below to view them. The next meeting will be an Open Meeting on the 17th August at 11am. Those staying here for Astronomy Week are welcome to stay on for the meeting and can book lunch if they want to stay until then and those arriving for Art Week are welcome to arrive in time for the meeting. There will be a remote link up available for those unable to come in person, further joining details will be available soon.
by Bradwell Office
Monday 10th June 2024
We have just had our yurts re-canvased and they look amazing
The photos show yurt Cedd before and after- it looks transformed. Many thanks to the two David's from World tents, who managed to supervise and work hard to get these done in record time despite a hold up with the new canvases being delayed at Heathrow. A huge thank you to Trevor, Jan, Pete and Paul, who also worked extremely hard to get these done. They started on Wednesday and all five yurts were occupied by a group on Friday afternoon.
Thank you to all who made a donation towards the cost, you donations are much appreciated. It's still not too late to give a donation if you would like to. The cost of the refit was £25,000, we were able to get a grant from the Rural Prosperity fund to cover £12,000 and have... Read More
by Bradwell Office
Monday 10th June 2024
The D4 bus, which connects the Othona community with Southminster train station, is being withdrawn at the end of July (28th July) and replaced by the D45 service. Sadly this service is much more limited and does not operate on a Saturday, as shown in the timetable below. At the moment the bus is not scheduled to come to Othona itself but will stop in Bradwell village. We realise that this will cause problems for those coming by bus and are looking for solutions to help this. At present for those able to travel on the D45 we will arrange to collect people from the village and drop off, if you are travelling here on a Saturday and need to get from the station there is a local taxi firm (Kitty cars- 07710295955), but we realise that this is not an option for everyone so please contact... Read More
by Bradwell Office
Monday 10th June 2024
The Essex Green Weekend is starting this Friday, there are still places for camping and day visitors. If you want to see the programme then click on this link- Essex Green Weekend 2024.
Hope you are able to come along:)
by Bradwell Office
Thursday 6th June 2024
As many of you know, the D4 service that connects us to Southminster train Station will be stopping in July. This is being replaced by the D45 service, the proposed new timetable can be viewed on this link- D45 timetable. At the moment this is not scheduled to come all the way to the Community but stops in Bradwell village, we are hoping this can be changed but if not then we will arrange to collect folks from the village. Sadly there is no scheduled service on a Saturday now unlike the D4.
by Bradwell Office
Sunday 26th May 2024
Here is the latest news from the Othona Community in the Village View magazine, written by Ruth Bull- Village View June 2024. All previous editions are available to view on our website: