Welcome to The Pilsdon at Malling Community
The new Touching Place Newsletter is now available on the Newsletters page.
There are some photos on the News & Events page of Pilsdon in the snow.
We recently celebrated our fifth anniversary of the Community and we also said good bye to Richard Whitfield who has been our chairman of Trustees. We had a special celebratory service in which all trustees and community members signed their names in a beautifully decorated Book of the Gospels. The service was followed by a barbecue to which all Pilsdon friends and volunteers were invited. It was a wonderful day despite the weather.
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 twenty-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.
A leaflet containing more information about us can be downloaded by clicking here.
Aims and Objects of the Charity
For the relief of financial need and the relief of sickness and the preservation and protection of good physical and mental health by offering accommodation, hospitality and spiritual refreshment to those who by reason of poverty, disability, mental or spiritual incapacity or inability to manage their own affairs are in need of such refuge without regard to race, gender or creed. For the advancement of the christian religion by the formation and maintenance of a community of people who from time to time will endeavour to live together as one household in order to welcome people in need and be united in love and prayer according to the precepts of the christian gospels.
Please take the time to look around our website and find out more about us.
21st Century Values
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 seekers.
Then they came for the mentally ill
And there was no-one left to speak for anyone.
~ Open University K272 ~