Iona Community

John Bell - Weathering the Storm (Fully booked)
2026-05-09 15:00 - 2026-05-15 09:00 UTC | Iona Abbey Centre, Isle of Iona, United Kingdom
Sorry to disappoint you, this week is now fully booked but we have a waiting list available. Contact ionaabbeybookings.org.uk to add your name to the list.
Every decade has its own challenges, but the 2020s seem to have more than most.
Together we will reflect on what resources, particularly from a faith perspective, enable people to deal with such issues, both personal and political.
Programme leader

John Bell is an ordained minister, a member of the Iona Community and a writer and occasional broadcaster. He is a much-loved contributor at Greenbelt Festival. He teaches and lectures worldwide on issues of faith, social justice, music and liturgy.

Costs

6 Nights: £870 or £435 concession

Time and Space 3 or 6 Nights (16-19 fully booked, 19-22 Limited availability)
2026-05-16 15:00 - 2026-05-22 09:00
Time and Space 6 or 3 night stays from 16th – 22nd May 2026.
3 night stays begin on Saturday 16th or Tuesday 19th.
Come join us at the Abbey for some time and space to rest, reconnect and be renewed.
Our Time and Space weeks offer just enough structure for reflection in community while also giving plenty of space to pause and explore the wild and rugged scenery of the island.
You’ll have the opportunity to join in guided reflections, small group conversations and our weekly pilgrimage, but most importantly, you can take a deep breath and settle into our rhythm of work, rest and worship.
Spend time with other guests working on shared tasks, join in the worship at the Abbey Church, and enjoy fantastic meals from the Iona Abbey Kitchen, shared at communal tables in the refectory.
Let this beautiful place settle in your heart and give it time and space to comfort, challenge and change you.
Cost

6 Nights: £870 or £435 concession
3 Nights: £435 or £217.50 concession

Time and Space (LIMITED AVAILABILITY)
2026-05-23 15:00 - 2026-05-29 09:00, 2026-07-18 15:00 - 2026-07-24 09:00, 2026-08-29 15:00 - 2026-09-04 09:00, 2026-09-19 15:00 - 2026-09-25 09:00
Come join us at the Abbey for some time and space to rest, reconnect and be renewed.
Our Time and Space weeks offer just enough structure for reflection in community while also giving plenty of space to pause and explore the wild and rugged scenery of the island.
You’ll have the opportunity to join in guided reflections, small group conversations and our weekly pilgrimage, but most importantly, you can take a deep breath and settle into our rhythm of work, rest and worship.
Spend time with other guests working on shared tasks, join in the worship at the Abbey Church, and enjoy fantastic meals from the Iona Abbey Kitchen, shared at communal tables in the refectory.
Let this beautiful place settle in your heart and give it time and space to comfort, challenge and change you.
Cost

6 Nights: £870 or £435 concession

Time and Space (FULLY BOOKED)
2026-05-30 15:00 - 2026-06-05 09:00, 2026-09-12 15:00 - 2026-09-18 09:00

Columba Week (LIMITED AVAILABILITY)
2026-06-06 15:00 - 2026-06-12 09:00
Flawed, ambitious and uniquely charismatic, Saint Columba emerged from the sorrow of exile to become the foremost figure of his time, spreading the gospel and establishing a thriving religious and creative community which one writer called “a beacon of enlightenment for Christianity”.
Columba’s legend is curiously modern. It challenges us to speak truth to power, create genuine openness in our societies, and do the hard work of peace-making in dark times.
Join us for a week of celebration, investigation and creative exploration.
Columba Week this year will be led by the Abbey Team.
6 Nights: £870 or £435 concession

Experiencing Nature, with Bob Gilbert (FULLY BOOKED)
2026-06-13 15:00 - 2026-06-19 09:00
Experiencing nature: exploring a spirituality of the environment.
Through direct experience of the natural world on Iona, and an exploration of the place of nature in Christian tradition, we will seek to explore an eco-spirituality appropriate for our times.
At a time of deepening climate and biodiversity crisis we are in need of a new environmental spirituality. A spirituality that recognises the presence of God in all creation, that can underpin our political and social action and sustain us in the face of eco-despair.
During this week we will discover some of the plants and birds around Iona Abbey and on pilgrimage. And we’ll hear the stories that have been woven around them. We will also explore the role of the natural world in Christian tradition.
Above all, we will reflect on how we can take these experiences home with us. We’ll find ways to be in closer relationship with the natural world, wherever we happen to be, even in the most unpromising surroundings.
Programme leader

Bob Gilbert is an environmental writer and broadcaster, his books include ‘The Green London Way, ‘The Missing Musk‘ and ‘Ghost Trees’. His work for BBC Radio 4 includes ‘The Sussuration of Trees‘, and ‘The Passion: a Pilgrimage in Plants’. An Associate Member of the Iona Community, Bob is a Quaker living in London.

Costs

6 Nights: £870 or £435 concession

Practising Hope (LIMITED AVAILABILITY)
2026-06-20 15:00 - 2026-06-26 09:00
This week will invite us to explore the meaning and practice of hope from multiple dimensions—spiritual, theological, relational, and communal.
Set within the rhythms of community life at Iona Abbey, the week offers a space for reflection, worship, and shared conversation rooted in the Iona Community’s commitment to justice, peace, and the renewal of all creation.
Through prayer, group dialogue, and intentional community living, we will engage with hope not as a vague ideal, but as a lived and transformative force in our lives and in the world.
Programme leaders

Jane Hodges is an Anglican priest and has served in an East End parish and is a prison chaplain. Prior to ordination Jane worked in housing and social care, in inner city areas of Sheffield, Manchester and London.
Jane is a Member of the Iona Community and joint convenor of the London family group.

Catriona Robertson is a former warden of Iona Abbey and previously directed the Christian Muslim Forum. She’s inspired by Howard Thurman’s words, ‘Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what brings you alive, because what the world needs is people who are alive.’

Costs

6 Nights: £870 or £435 concession

Wild Goose Resource Group Week 1 (limited availability)
2026-06-27 15:00 - 2026-07-03 09:00
Wild Goose Resource Group Week 1

An interactive week exploring creative, participative and playful ways to worship, led by the Wild Goose Resource Group – Jane Bentley, Iain McLarty and Jo Love. A highlight of the Iona Abbey Programme each year.

More information to follow.

Programme leaders

Jo Love brings curiosity about Bible explorations, deeper conversations, and the art of well-shaped and well-led worship.

Iain McLarty is an experienced church musician in a broad range of styles, with extensive experience working with the Church of Scotland and the World Council of Churches.

Jane Bentley specialises in inclusive music-making, community building and social connection.

Costs
6 Nights: £870.00 per adult, £435.00 for reduced rate.

Time and Space
2026-07-04 15:00 - 2026-07-10 09:00, 2026-08-22 15:00 - 2026-08-28 09:00

Time and Space (LIMITED AVAILABILITY)
2026-07-11 15:00 - 2026-07-17 09:00
Come join us at the Abbey for some time and space to rest, reconnect and be renewed.
Our Time and Space weeks offer just enough structure for reflection in community while also giving plenty of space to pause and explore the wild and rugged scenery of the island.
You’ll have the opportunity to join in guided reflections, small group conversations and our weekly pilgrimage, but most importantly, you can take a deep breath and settle into our rhythm of work, rest and worship.
Spend time with other guests working on shared tasks, join in the worship at the Abbey Church, and enjoy fantastic meals from the Iona Abbey Kitchen, shared at communal tables in the refectory.
Let this beautiful place settle in your heart and give it time and space to comfort, challenge and change you.
6 Nights: £870 or £435 concession
Costs
Contact ionaabbeybookings@iona.org.uk for all the essential booking information.

Community Week 2026 (limited availability, please contact IonaAbbeyBookings@Iona.org.uk to book)
2026-07-25 15:00 - 2026-07-31 09:00
Quiet Processes and Small Circles
A special week for Members of the Iona Community to gather on the Isle of Iona. This week offers a chance to reconnect with the Community’s commitment to peace, justice, and the renewal of worship.
Whether you’re long connected or a new Member, all Members of the Iona Community are welcome to this unique week of faith and fellowship.
Please note you must be a Member of the Iona Community to attend this week, find out more about membership here.
More information to be announced.

We’ll be joined this year by Laurel Townhead. Laurel serves as Director of QUNO Geneva, leading and enabling the whole staff team to realise a vision of a UN system and community of nations that support and uphold the dignity of all, so that peace and justice can flourish and our shared home can be nurtured. Laurel started her life in community on the moors in Yorkshire and grew up in Sheffield. She enjoys being in nature, snowshoeing in the winter and swimming in the lake in the summer and being with her family (in any season). Laurel is a Member of South East London Area Meeting and appreciates getting to align her faith with her work and connecting to Quaker witness
Before becoming Director in September 2025, Laurel was QUNO Human Rights and Refugees Representative for 11 years, leading QUNO’s work to uphold the dignity of all members of our human family – with a focus on migration, conscientious objection to military service and criminal justice systems. This was a significant part of the Laurel’s 20+ years of experience working on the promotion and protection of human rights nationally and through the UN human rights system, on a range of issues including criminal justice, migration, refugee protection, children’s rights and women’s rights. She enjoys combining legal and political analysis with connecting with people and draws energy from creating safe and brave spaces for conversation and collaboration.

Costs

6 Nights: £870 or £435 concession

As there is limited availability, please contact IonaAbbeyBookings@Iona.org.uk to book

Youth Fest
2026-08-01 15:00 - 2026-08-07 09:00
Our YouthFest programme is open to anyone aged 14-17. For a week, you’ll be living in an ancient abbey on a beautiful, remote island and get to look at life through a completely new lens.
Get ready to explore the island and its beautiful beaches, to make new friends and discover new things about yourself and the world, to ask big questions, and to have fun, whether it’s during creative workshops or a Scottish dancing ceilidh.
Whoever you are, wherever you’re from, you belong and have a place here!
Programme leaders

Ruth Quill is an experienced facilitator of programmes for children and young people. She is also a football coach, events manager, escape room designer, and Associate Member of the Iona Community. Her philosophy revolves around the importance of play throughout life, as essential to learning, connection and joy.

Marcus Reeves is an activist and chartered forester living in Southampton. He is passionate about protecting people and the environment, getting to know people deeply and building community through art.

Costs

Contact ionaabbeybookings@iona.org.uk for all the essential booking information.

Family Week
2026-08-08 15:00 - 2026-08-14 09:00
Calling all children and young people and their parents, grandparents, godparents and other important adults in their lives:
Come and join us for our families week, a programme designed for families of all shapes and sizes!
You’ll be living in an ancient abbey on a remote and beautiful island full of exciting plants and wildlife. We’ll have lots of time to explore the island, to have fun and play games together, to work on craft projects at the big refectory tables, to join in daily task teams to keep the Abbey running, and to be a part of our worship services.
Each family will be allocated their own room or rooms (i.e. a family of 4 might be accommodated in one room with 4 beds, or in two rooms with 2 beds in each). Where more than one room is required we will ensure the rooms are close to one another. We have 2 rooms which can sleep 4 people, and 3 rooms which can sleep 3 people. The majority of our rooms sleep 2 people.
If you have any questions or would like to discuss any requests or requirements please get in touch.
Whether you’ve come to Iona many times or whether you’ve never been, no matter who you are, your family is welcome, and we are looking forward to having you with us!
Programme leaders

Ruth Quill is an experienced facilitator of programmes for children and young people. She is also a football coach, events manager, escape room designer, and Associate Member of the Iona Community. Her philosophy revolves around the importance of play throughout life, as essential to learning, connection and joy.

Jo Henderson is an Associate Priest at St James the Less, Leith (Scottish Episcopal Church) who has a lot of experience working with families and young people at home and abroad. She loves exploring and curating creative inter-generational worship using storytelling, arts, crafts and fun!

Costs

6 Nights: £870 or £435 concession

Singing Week - Wild Goose Resource Group Week 2 (LIMITED AVAILABILITY)
2026-08-15 15:00 - 2026-08-21 09:00
Singing Week with Lim Swee-Hong 林瑞峰 and the Wild Goose Resource Group’s Iain McLarty and Jane Bentley.

We believe everyone can sing, and in the power of singing to build community and connect with God. Join us for a week of sharing songs from around the world and from the Iona Community led by Jane Bentley and Iain McLarty from the Wild Goose Resource Group and Singaporean composer and educator Lim Swee Hong 林瑞峰.

We’ll trace the journeys of our songs, listening to what the words and music reveal about resilience and hope, justice and healing. We’ll sing in harmony with worshippers across the world: from Scotland to South Africa, Palestine to Pakistan. There may even be drums.

We are passionate about singing as a communal and transformative act rather than a polished performance. Our approach to song is all about inclusivity, participation, and social justice. All are welcome. Music is too important to just be left to the professionals!

Programme leaders

Lim Swee-Hong 林瑞峰 is one of the most prominent and prolific Asian hymnwriters and a sought-after leader for global seminars and conferences dealing with worship and sacred music. He has taught in several educational institutions in Asia and North America and is currently the Deer Park Associate Professor of Sacred Music at Emmanuel College of Victoria University in the University of Toronto, Canada.

Jane Bentley is a Music Resource Worker with the Wild Goose Resource Group who specialises in bringing people together through song and rhythm and is passionate about making music at the margins. She found her path while spending three years working at Iona Abbey, later leading to a PhD in musical interaction, participation, and wellbeing.

Iain McLarty is a Music Resource Worker with the Wild Goose Resource Group and a choir and orchestra conductor who loves to get people singing together as a way to connect with God and express faith. He is regularly involved in planning and leading worship at national and international events and co-edited the Church of Scotland’s new hymnary, “God Welcomes All”.

Costs
6 Nights: £870.00 per adult, £435.00 for reduced rate.

Sound and Vision - Creativity Week (FULLY BOOKED)
2026-09-05 15:00 - 2026-09-11 09:00
Join us for a week of late summer invention and creation. You’ll have the opportunity to enjoy workshops, music, poetry, art and storytelling. Come to celebrate, learn, and explore, surrounded by Iona’s stunning natural beauty.
Sound and Vision is designed to allow creative people to live in community, develop skills and forge new connections. Bring your inspiration, your dreams, ideas, works in progress, or just a willingness to experiment and play. There will be informal workshops in music and song as well as visual art.
We’ll discover how engaging in the world creatively allows us to be more playful with and connected to our surroundings and lived experience.
We warmly welcome the curious and courageous, artists and non-artists and everyone in between. Come and comb beaches, create magnificent things, or just have fun trying, in Iona’s late summer sunshine.
Programme leader

Colette Cameron Colette has been delivering workshops for over 25 years. She encourages expressiveness, freedom to explore, and playfulness, with a sense of kind curiosity towards our lived experience. Skilled in the psychology of creativity, Colette is well-known as a gifted and compassionate tutor.

Costs

6 Nights: £870 or £435 concession

John Bell - Weathering the Storm (FULLY BOOKED)
2026-09-26 15:00 - 2026-10-02 09:00
Every decade has its own challenges, but the 2020s seem to have more than most.
Together we will reflect on what resources, particularly from a faith perspective, enable people to deal with such issues, both personal and political.
Programme leader

John Bell is an ordained minister, a member of the Iona Community and a writer and occasional broadcaster. He is a much-loved contributor at Greenbelt Festival. He teaches and lectures worldwide on issues of faith, social justice, music and liturgy.

Costs

6 Nights: £870 or £435 concession

Hopeful Imagination - Alastair McIntosh (fully booked)
2026-10-03 15:00 - 2026-10-09 09:00
We live in times of turmoil – wars, climate change, poverty, the pushing back of democracy. Times where religion itself is being idolatrously abused to serve power, just as Christ himself was tempted: “All these kingdoms can be yours….”
Alice Walker said, “Resistance is the secret of possessing joy.” From where might such joy resurge? The Celtic saints knew. They understood – as do some of today’s great theologians like Walter Wink and Walter Brueggemann – the deep imagination, both our own and that of God.
Through talks, walks and a shared common life this week Alastair McIntosh will explore the imagination and action across three themes. Re-membering what has been dismembered, what has brought us both individually and collectively to where we are now. Re-visioning how spiritual hope can renew our lives and the world. And Re-claiming spiritual skills, especially those of prophetic vision, action and discernment.
Like the nuns and monks of St Coumba’s time, what might we learn from a week in community with one another, with God and with nature? What might we take back out to the world, perhaps in “new ways found to touch the hearts of all”?
We’ll explore through talks from Alastair, and walks, and sharing in the common life at Iona Abbey. Delight!
Background reading:
Walter Brueggemann, Hopeful Imagination
Alastair McIntosh, Poacher’s Pilgrimage
Alice Walker, Revolutionary Petunias and Horses Make a Landscape Look more Beautiful (poetry)
Programme leader

Alastair McIntosh is a human ecologist and Quaker from the Isle of Lewis, a trustee of the GalGael Trust in Govan, and an honorary professor at Glasgow University. His books include Soil and Soul, Poacher’s Pilgrimage and Spiritual Activism.

www.AlastairMcIntosh.com

Costs

6 Nights: £870 or £435 concession

Festival of Writing and Storytelling (LIMITED AVAILABILITY)
2026-10-10 15:00 - 2026-10-16 09:00
The Festival of Writing and Storytelling is open to all who love to read and listen to stories. Whether you are an experienced writer or exploring writing for the first time, this week is for you.
You’ll get the opportunity to workshop with writers from different backgrounds and genres, to find out more about different creative processes, and to find your own literary voice along the way.
There will also be plenty of time to enjoy hearty meals form the Iona Abbey Kitchen, explore the rugged and wild island landscape, tell stories by the fireside, and share in the love of words as a community – written, read and spoken.
Festival Contributors

Lamorna Ash
Lamorna Ash is an author and journalist based in London. Her first book, Dark Salt Clear, was shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize in 2020 and won the Somerset Maugham prize in 2021. Her second book, Don’t Forget We’re Here Forever, came out in May 2025, and was a Telegraph and GQ Book of the Year.

Margaret Elphinstone
Margaret Elphinstone is the author of Lost People (Wild Goose 2023), a novella offering hope and redemption in a time of war and desolation. Lost People was shortlisted for the 2024 Saltire fiction award. Margaret is the author of nine earlier novels, including The Gathering Night, Voyageurs and the award-winning Sea Road. She has worked as an organic gardener and an academic and is Emerita Professor of writing at Strathclyde University. Her poetry collection Time Seeds was published by Wild Goose in 2026. She lives in Galloway.

Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin
Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin is an Irish writer based in Edinburgh. Her debut novel, Ordinary Saints, was published in April 2025. It was shortlisted for the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize, was a Radio 2 Book Club Pick, and was shortlisted for two Books Are My Bag awards.

More contributors to be announced soon!
Costs

6 Nights: £870 or £435 concession

Politics, Power and Protest
2026-10-17 15:00 - 2026-10-23 09:00
The late Archbishop Desmond Tutu once famously observed, “When people say that religion and politics don’t mix, I wonder which Bible it is they are reading.” Engagement with politics is one vital way that Christians can live out the commandment to love our neighbours, seek justice and peace, and pursue God’s kingdom.
This can daunting, dangerous or a diversion when the political world is often shouty and toxic and there seems little common ground. Yet this is a time when we need politics – and good people willing to serve in public life – to rise to the many complex long-term challenges facing us locally, nationally and globally.
We’ll spend some time exploring the relationship between faith and politics, and looking at lessons from the Bible and history about different ways of engaging with power and politics – from protest to participation.
We’ll hear about the reality of life as a politician, and how some church communities have been able to build purposeful relationships with MPs, modelling an approach to politics characterised by listening, kindness and truthfulness.
Throughout we will have opportunities to reflect on our own experience, context, power and calling, and how we might use them to further the causes we believe in.
Programme facilitators
Simeon Mitchell leads the Joint Public Issues Team, which helps the Baptist, Methodist and United Reformed Churches, and the Church of Scotland, to work together for justice and peace. He is a Methodist, living in Oxford, with a background is in international development.

Revd. Steve Tinning is a Baptist minister and serves as the Baptist Union’s Public Issues Enabler and as a member of the Joint Public Issues Team. At heart, Steve is an activist, with practical theology and community-organising theory working as the foundations of a ministry of justice and compassion.

Cost

6 Nights: £870 or £435 concession

Contemplation in Community - with Stephen Wright (FULLY BOOKED)
2026-10-24 15:00 - 2026-10-30 09:00
Contemplation in Community – with Stephen Wright

We invite you to join us for this special week of contemplation in community. This week is led by Stephen Wright a member of the Iona Community. It is intended for those who are comfortable with deep spiritual inquiry and ready to go deeper along that particular Way known as contemplation. Stephen will offer an insight into the Heartfulness nature of contemplation, how to be open to it, and how to live the contemplative Way in all the gifts and challenges of our everyday lives.
Our time here will centre around an intensive engagement with contemplative practices. There will be daily periods of group work, reflection and conversation, combined with long periods of solitude, silence and stillness. Both will aid the inner prayerful and reflective journey that supports our longing for relationship in the One in whom ‘we live and move and have our being’.
We will be further nurtured by the sacred presence of Iona Abbey and its community, the elemental beauty of this special island and its long history of attentiveness to the sacred.
There will also be moments of grounding our insights by helping with the everyday tasks of living in community. The deep inner life does not have to be separate from the outer.
Shared expectations and practicalities
Most meals and interim activities will be taken in quiet, but there will be opportunities, for those who wish, to enjoy social time and conversation.
Accommodation will be offered as single occupancy rooms at Iona Abbey. Private time is an essential component of this programme. However, we can offer room sharing if you wish to bring a close friend or partner also wishing to join the course.

Facilitator
Led by Stephen Wright, this programme will draw upon the collaborative work of the Sacred Space Foundation and the Diocese of Carlisle in the St. Kentigern School and Community for Contemplatives. Stephen is a Member of the Iona Community, a director of the Sacred Space Foundation, an ordained Interfaith minister and spiritual director.
You can listen to Stephen’s Heartfulness webinar, given to the Iona Community in May 2022, here:

Costs
6 Nights: £870 or £435 concession

Winter Work Week (FULLY BOOKED)
2026-10-31 15:00 - 2026-11-06 09:00
Winter Work Week: 31st October – 6th November 2026
As the nights close in and we welcome the quieter months, our staff and volunteers help tuck the Abbey accommodation in for a winter rest. We’d love for you to be part of this special experience!
This discounted week is perfect for energetic people who enjoy hands-on, practical work and don’t mind getting their hands a little dirty.
Throughout the week, you’ll become part of the Abbey’s rhythm—balancing meaningful work with worship, shared meals, and opportunities for connection. Each day brings a variety of tasks, from gardening and painting, to cleaning and preparing the worship spaces.
Past participants speak of the joy of working together on a common task, forming new friendships, and sharing plenty of laughter. There’s also time to unwind and explore Iona. Guests often enjoy experiencing Iona during these quieter days as the tourist season winds down. We end the week with a ceilidh celebration— always a highlight!
If you can’t join us in winter, we also offer a Work Week in March (7th–13th) as we prepare the Abbey for the coming season.
Come and be part of this special week—we’d love to welcome you!

Costs

6 Nights: This week is offered at a discounted rate of £438 or concession rate of £219.

Stillness in Community
2026-11-09 16:00 - 2026-11-13 09:00
Stillness in Community

Join Quaker, and Iona Community Leader Ruth Harvey, for some days of gentle, stilling contemplative practices in the beauty of an Iona winter.
During the Stillness in Community Weeks, each guest will have their own room, offering a peaceful space for personal reflection and quiet contemplation. Not a completely silent week. Sharing community meals, work, and worship.

We look forward to welcoming you to a Stillness in Community Week at Iona Abbey in 2026.

Costs
4 Nights: £426 or £213 concession

Spring Work Week 2027
2027-03-06 16:00 - 2027-03-12 09:00
As spring emerges, our staff and volunteers come together to reawaken the Abbey accommodation, preparing it for the guests and visitors of the coming season. We’d love for you to be part of this special experience!

This discounted week is perfect for energetic people who enjoy hands-on, practical work and don’t mind getting their hands a little dirty.

Throughout the week, you’ll become part of the Abbey’s rhythm—balancing meaningful work with worship, shared meals, and opportunities for connection. Each day brings a variety of tasks, from gardening and painting to deep cleaning and preparing worship spaces. Every effort you make will help to create a welcoming environment for those who will stay in the months ahead.

Past participants speak of the joy of working together on a common task, forming new friendships, and sharing plenty of laughter. There’s also time to unwind and explore Iona. Guests often enjoy experiencing Iona during these quieter days before the tourist season begins. We end the week with a ceilidh celebration— always a highlight!

“I loved the thought that we were participating in preparing the way for others to grow throughout the upcoming season.” – Previous Work Week participant
If you can’t join us in spring, we also offer a Work Week in the autumn (30th October–5th November) as we prepare the Abbey for the quieter winter months.
Come and be part of this special week—we’d love to welcome you!

Costs

6 Nights: This week is offered at a rate of £600 or a concession rate of £300.

Time and Space
2027-03-13 16:00 - 2027-03-19 09:00
Come join us at the Abbey for some time and space to rest, reconnect and be renewed.
Our Time and Space weeks offer just enough structure for reflection in community while also giving plenty of space to pause and explore the wild and rugged scenery of the island.
You’ll have the opportunity to join in guided reflections, small group conversations and our weekly pilgrimage, but most importantly, you can take a deep breath and settle into our rhythm of work, rest and worship.
Spend time with other guests working on shared tasks, join in the worship at the Abbey Church, and enjoy fantastic meals from the Iona Abbey Kitchen, shared at communal tables in the refectory.
Let this beautiful place settle in your heart and give it time and space to comfort, challenge and change you.

Costs
6 Nights: £960 or £480 concession.

Time and Space 3 Nights
2027-03-20 16:00 - 2027-03-23 09:00
Come join us at the Abbey for some time and space to rest, reconnect and be renewed.
Our three-night stays are perfect for anyone who would like to dip their toes in and try out what it’s like to live in community at Iona Abbey. It offers just enough structure for reflection in community while also giving plenty of space to pause and explore the wild and rugged scenery of the island.
Spend time with other guests working on shared tasks, join in the worship at the Abbey Church, and enjoy fantastic meals from the Iona Abbey Kitchen, shared at communal tables in the refectory.
Let this beautiful place settle in your heart and give it time and space to comfort, challenge and change you.
Cost
3 Nights: £480.00 per adult or £240 concession.
