Welcome to Othona - Bradwell on Sea
- A place of welcome and acceptance whoever you are
- A remote and beautiful place, yet only an hour from the M25
- Simple accomodation and good food at a low cost
- Come to a programmed week, book in for your group or school class, or just come!
The Othona Community is an open Christian Community, whose purpose is to provide, mainly through its two centres in Essex and Dorset, a welcoming, accepting place with a pattern of work, worship, study and play where people of different beliefs, cultures, classes, abilities, and ages can discover how to live together, learn from each other, explore together the relationship between faith and life with a view to more positive action in the world, and encourage one another in caring for the world and its people.
More about Othona Bradwell
From its beginning in 1946 as a summer camp in tents on the Essex marshes, Othona has been a meeting place for people from different countries and backgrounds. They came then and they come now – all the year round and not only in tents - to be refreshed, to take stock, to make friends over the shared chores, perhaps to learn something new, and to go across the field together to the ancient St Peter’s chapel looking out over the Blackwater estuary.
The community attracts anything between 15 and 50 people, depending on the theme and the season. At any given time there will be some who have been coming for years and others there for the first time. Especially in the summer the dining room echoes to the sound of many languages and children’s voices.
Othona has a special concern for living in harmony with nature – with wind-turbine, solar panels, and eco building and much else. The beauty of the natural world is all around – from a green woodpecker to an unpolluted starlit night sky.
Come and see for yourself!
