Welcome to The Pilsdon at Malling Community Website
The Pilsdon Community 50th Anniversary Pilgrimage begins on the 2nd of June. More details about the walk and sponsorship can be found on the events page.
We have also updated our recent news and trips.
The Pilsdon at Malling Community is a Christian based Community with its ideals and ethos taken from the Pilsdon Community in Dorset. The first Pilsdon Community was founded in 1958 as a refuge for those in crisis. We seek to provide an environment where people can rebuild their lives after experiencing a crisis, whether sudden or progressive and offer a safe home for those working through depression, alcoholism, addiction, divorce or bereavement.
Continuing this in Pilsdon at Malling we welcome people to come and share our life, whether it is for a day, a week or many years. People who find themselves isolated and lonely on the fringe of society are particularly welcome.
Wayfarers, seeking a rest on their journey's way are welcome at our door.
To all, we offer friendship and hospitality, as well as traditional Christian charity. At any one time, Pilsdon houses an average of thirty-five people. Eight to ten of these will be Community Members and their families, all of whom take responsibility for running the place on a voluntary basis, for between one and ten years without any salaries. Everyone who stays at Pilsdon, guest, visitor, wayfarer, volunteer or community member participates fully in the life of the Community.
Aims and Objects of the Charity
Please take the time to look around our website and find out more about us.
21st Century Value
First they came for the dispossessed
But we didn't speak up
Because we thought we weren't dispossessed.
Then they came for the marginalised
But we didn't speak up -
Because we thought that we weren't marginalised.
Then they came for the dissidents
But we didn't speak up
Because we thought that we weren't dissidents.
Next they came for the asylum seekers
But we didn't speak up -
Because we thought that we would never be asylum seeers.
Then they came for the mentally ill
And therewas no-one left to speak for anyone.
~ Open University K272 ~