Visit
Scargill offers a wide range of holidays, conferences and retreats. Some are led by members of the Scargill Community, and others by external speakers. On most dates you can also come as a private guest rather than attend something from our programme.
Everyone is welcome at Scargill House. Visit on your own, come with your family or friends, bring a church or group. Whatever works for you!
July 2025
There will be a warm welcome for you at this Quiet Day led by Scargill Community. This day will be a mix of input sessions,…
Online spaces available
Welcome to our summer extravaganza, whatever your age or budget (you can even bring your own tent). You’ll enjoy our packed programme with a rich…
Fully booked with waiting list
August 2025
Welcome to our summer extravaganza, whatever your age or budget. You’ll enjoy our packed programme with a rich mix of teaching and worship. Summerfest features…
Fully booked with waiting list
Welcome to our summer extravaganza, whatever your age or budget (you can even bring your own tent). You’ll enjoy our packed programme with a rich…
Fully booked with waiting list
Making a Musical: ZAC – The story of Zacchaeus from Luke 19
16–23 August 2025 (Sat–Sat)
with Roger Jones and team
Come and learn Roger’s latest musical in a week. The musical follows how the diminutive Chief Tax Collector climbs a tree to get a sight…
Fully booked with waiting list
September 2025
The ‘wild card’ is one that turns itself into whatever is needed to win a game of cards. Paul the apostle would have understood the…
Spaces available for £168.50
An active retreat – challenging hill walks in the autumnal Yorkshire Dales will provide opportunities for reflection and a vehicle for hearing God’s voice. Connect…
Fully booked with waiting list
Are you seeking to develop deeper spiritual insight, renewed inspiration and impactful leadership? Join us for a special residential retreat at Scargill House, tailored especially…
Spaces available for £326
There will be a warm welcome for you at this Quiet Day led by Scargill Community. This day will be a mix of input sessions,…
Online spaces available
Scargill Movement weekend (residential)-invitation only
12–14 September 2025 (Fri–Sun)
with Scargill Community
Please fill out the booking form if you have received an email invitation from our Council (Trustees) to join us for the weekend.
Spaces available
Scargill Movement weekend (Day visitor)-invitation only
12–14 September 2025 (Fri–Sun)
with Scargill Community
Please fill out the booking form if you have received an email invitation from our Council (Trustees) to join us as a Day visitor for…
Spaces available
Cycle, song and psalms – A cycling pilgrimage
15–19 September 2025 (Mon–Fri)
with Mike Leigh and Tom Lusty
This is a cycling week with a difference! Not only do we get on our bikes and explore the beauty of the Yorkshire Dales, but…
Fully booked with waiting list
Come and discover more about who you are and how God might want to shape you. This is an introductory course to the Enneagram which…
Spaces available for £336
Join us to seek spiritual refreshment from these treasured poems, songs and prayers. We will reflect on both lament and praise, and the role of…
Spaces available for £168.50
Clergy and lay leaders, inspired by the Psalms
24–26 September 2025 (Wed–Fri)
with Annie Naish and Christopher Landau and Felicity Lawson
Join us as we reflect on the Psalms as a source of inspiration in ministry. The theologian Walter Brueggemann writes of three types of psalm:…
Spaces available for £168.50
Phew! Just when you thought you couldn’t go on, along comes a weekend at Scargill designed just for you! Drop everything and book in for…
Spaces available for £168.50
October 2025
A weekend for grandparents to rest, reflect and be renewed. Long gone are the days when grandparenting was just about remembering the occasional birthday and…
Fully booked with waiting list
Phew! Just when you thought you couldn’t go on, along comes a weekend at Scargill designed just for you! Drop everything and book in for…
Limited spaces remaining for £168.50
Come and explore the amazing Limestone scenery of the Yorkshire dales in Autumn. We will be walking around Malham cove and Gordale Scar and Malham…
Spaces available for £326
Immerse yourself in photography as we learn to see with “the eyes of the heart”. Short talks and practical exercises, in the beautiful grounds of…
Spaces available for £326
We’ll look, with a painterly eye, at the splendour of the sky. We’ll experiment with colour, form and symbolism, and try to understand why we…
Limited spaces remaining for £168.50
There will be a warm welcome for you at this Quiet Day led by Scargill Community. This day will be a mix of input sessions,…
Online spaces available
A time to pause, reflect, and rediscover what keeps your calling life-giving. A space to celebrate your journey, explore ways to sustain your passion, and…
Spaces available for £500
Have you a deep desire to follow Christ with all your heart, but often feel you are a poor disciple, and let God down? Do…
Spaces for residential guests for £326
Online spaces available for £50
Come for a joyful, harmonious and praise filled weekend of song, led by Mike Leigh, former chaplain of the Scargill Community. Mike is a ‘natural…
Fully booked with waiting list
Whose earth is it anyway?
27–31 October 2025 (Mon–Fri)
with Andy Lester and Phil Stone and Regina Ebner
Welcome to this half term week led by our friends from A Rocha UK as they will inspire us to enjoy God’s wonderful creation and…
Spaces available for £276
If you have reached 65 you will average another 20 years. What are you going to do with them? John and Felicity have a combined…
Spaces available for £168.50
November 2025
A vicarage in the trenches in World War One, a padre who wanted to be on the front line, praying for the lads and being…
Spaces available for £326
Taking inspiration from the American farmer and poet Wendell Berry, we’ll be exploring ‘the peace of wild things’. Journeying with a range of writers –…
Spaces available for £326
Phew! Just when you thought you couldn’t go on, along comes a weekend at Scargill designed just for you! Drop everything and book in for…
Spaces for residential guests for £168.50
Online spaces available for £30
The workshop consists of six two-hour sessions and is suitable for anyone of any age and at any stage of separation and divorce. Those experiencing…
Spaces available for £178.50
Pre – Retirement
11–13 November 2025 (Tue–Thu)
This Pre-Retirement course is for clergy and spouses and includes input from Windmills, Church of England pension/housing and recently retired clergy – based on the course previously developed and…
Spaces available for £225
Tourists or pilgrims? Psalms for travellers: then and now
17–21 November 2025 (Mon–Fri)
with Bishop Chris Edmondson
‘The Psalms often take us on a journey we might not otherwise make on our own.’ (Graham Kendrick) There’s a particular group of Psalms in…
Spaces available for £326
Comparing works of art of many kinds which remain unfinished, with our part in the story of the Bible. We are all ‘work inprogress’! Whether…
Spaces available for £326
Being alongside, a retreat for spiritual directors – Leeds Anglican Diocese
21–23 November 2025 (Fri–Sun)
with Anne Harrison and Henriette Howarth and Paul Golightly
Note that this event is open to spiritual directors from both Leeds Anglican Diocese and from outside the Diocese. This ticket is for Leeds Anglican…
Limited spaces remaining for £120
Being alongside, a retreat for spiritual directors
21–23 November 2025 (Fri–Sun)
with Anne Harrison and Henriette Howarth and Paul Golightly
Note that this event is open to spiritual directors from both Leeds Anglican Diocese and from outside the Diocese. This ticket is for those bookings…
Fully booked with waiting list
Learning from the wisdom of the Carmelite Brother Lawrence, what it means for prayer to be part of our daily lives andto experience God as…
Spaces available for £326
I always try to experience more of God’s peace and presence during the often hectic weeks prior to Christmas, and have found it helpful to…
Spaces available for £168.50
There will be a warm welcome for you at this Quiet Day led by Scargill Community. This day will be a mix of input sessions,…
Online spaces available
December 2025
Listening well in a world of turmoil. An Advent retreat led by members of the Northumbrian Collective looking at whatit means to listen well, drawing…
Spaces available for £326
A pre-Christmas celebratory weekend was the very first event to occur in the life of the newly resurrected Scargill House, and we have offered guests…
Spaces available for £168.50
Advent is a season of preparation and waiting. We wait with joy and wonder as we look forward to celebrating the arrival of the baby…
Spaces available for £326
However you feel about all the usual New Year’s Eve shenanigans, there’s something here for everyone: chat, games, walks, films and anything else we can…
Fully booked with waiting list
January 2026
Imagine sitting with God gazing out on the glorious Yorkshire landscape as you eat your meals. On Individually Guided Retreats we do just that! Our…
Spaces available for £326
We are so grateful for our Friends and Companions here at Scargill. Without your love, support and prayers, we would quite simply not be here….
Spaces for residential guests for £139.50
Online spaces available for £30
St Paul writes: ‘It is for freedom that Christ has set us free’ but the trouble is most of us are trapped by patterns of…
Spaces available for £326
Phew! Just when you thought you couldn’t go on, along comes a weekend at Scargill designed just for you! Drop everything and book in for…
Spaces available for £168.50
Many of us enjoy crafting alone as a way to find peace in the midst of busy lives but this is an opportunity to get…
Spaces available for £326
This course is for those who have already done a basic Enneagram course, either here or somewhere else. We will continue to explore the Enneagram…
Spaces available for £326
There will be a warm welcome for you at this Quiet Day led by Scargill Community. This day will be a mix of input sessions,…
Online spaces available
Phew! Just when you thought you couldn’t go on, along comes a weekend at Scargill designed just for you! Drop everything and book in for…
Spaces available for £168.50
February 2026
Our lives can be full of notes – music and tales which express who we are and the wonders and struggles we face each day….
Spaces available for £326
Sometimes it seems as though the institutions we once looked to for direction and stability are crumbling, if they haven’t already fallen down. When life…
Spaces available for £326
Learn how to cut and assemble glass ready for fusing in the kiln which Michelle will be bringing along. Your work will be fired overnight,…
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Is there any reason for Faith? Has Science replaced God? When there is so much suffering can we believe in a God of love? Can…
Spaces available for £322
In the book of Hebrews it says we’ve come to thousands of angels in joyful assembly, the church of the firstborn whose names are written…
Spaces available for £326
This week you’re invited to retreat from the busyness and constant distractions of daily life, to slow down, take a step back and carve out…
Spaces available for £168.50
** WE ONLY HAVE EN SUITE ROOMS AND STANDARD SINGLE ROOMS LEFT FOR THIS COURSE ** Join us for a half term week of marmalade…
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With less than half the population now identifying as even nominally Christian, and churches hemorrhaging members for decades, we must ask how Christian faith and…
Spaces available for £326
Phew! Just when you thought you couldn’t go on, along comes a weekend at Scargill designed just for you! Drop everything and book in for…
Spaces for residential guests for £168.50
Online spaces available for £30