Introduction to Pennine Camphill Community

Pennine is a Camphill Community that supports a specialist college offering further education, training and support for young people with special needs. Details of how to apply for a student place can be found on our Student Applications page. Please phone our Admissions Secretary on 01924 255281 or e-mail to enquire about student vacancies. We are now processing student applications for admission in September 2011.

We are situated in Chapelthorpe, on the outskirts of Wakefield in West Yorkshire. Our site, comprising 35-acres, has a rural aspect and is surrounded by trees, but we are close to the local community.

These are exciting times at Pennine — work started at the end of June 2009 on our Rural Craft Centre! The building is almost finished and the equipment and materials from the workshops are being packed up ready to move into the new, purpose-built work areas before the end of the Summer holiday. The Camphill Family is helping us to raise funds for this massive project.

Pennine continues to maintain a 3-star CSCI standard enabling “people who use [our] service [to] experience excellent outcomes”.

Some of our Policy Documents (including our Complaints Procedure), and also our most recent Ofsted and CSCI reports, can be accessed from our Documents page. Pennine is part of the Therapeutic Communities’ Network, and also supports other organisations.

To find out more about us use the links above and to the left to navigate around the site. Don’t forget to look at the News page to find out what’s been happening at Pennine recently.

Advent and Summer Fairs

Our Summer Fair, held on Saturday 3 July, was a great success.

This year's Advent Fair will be on 20 November.

Volunteering

We are currently advertising for a House Co-ordinator; click here for details.

There are opportunities for short- or long-term volunteering at Pennine Camphill Community to match different interests and skills. Please contact us if you have any questions or would like to know more.

 

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Last updated on 5 August 2010.