Scargill offers a wide range of holidays, conferences and retreats, some 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 for the 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!

December 2024

Christmas is coming

6–8 December 2024 (Fri–Sun)

with Scargill Community

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…

Fully booked with waiting list

Doing it Yahweh

9–13 December 2024 (Mon–Fri)

with Dave Hopwood and Phil Stone

If you have ever visited the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem you will know that if you wish to enter you have to bend…

Spaces for residential guests for £316

Online spaces available for £50

Family event

New Year House Party

29 Dec 2024–2 Jan 2025 (Sun–Thu)

with Scargill Community

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 2025

Silent retreat

Individually guided retreat

13–17 January 2025 (Mon–Fri)

with Margi Walker and team

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…

Limited spaces remaining for £316

Friends and Companions weekend 1

17–19 January 2025 (Fri–Sun)

with Scargill Community

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 available for £135.50

Friends and Companions weekend 2

24–26 January 2025 (Fri–Sun)

with Scargill Community

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 £135.50

Online spaces available for £30

The Space — a creative retreat

27–31 January 2025 (Mon–Fri)

with Epiphany Team

An opportunity to explore creativity in fresh ways. We look forward to welcoming you to a creative retreat with Epiphany’s musicians, who are joined by…

Fully booked with waiting list

Relishing the good

27–31 January 2025 (Mon–Fri)

with Mike Leigh and Shaun Lambert

Come and spend a week in the company of Shaun and Mike as they explore Ignatian Spiritually and contemplative prayer that relishes the goodness of…

Fully booked with waiting list

Renew, refresh, restore at Candlemas

31 Jan–2 Feb 2025 (Fri–Sun)

with Scargill Community

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…

Fully booked with waiting list

February 2025

Simpler, humbler, bolder rebooted

3–7 February 2025 (Mon–Fri)

with Brendan Bassett and Gordon Dey and Phil Stone

Can you imagine what a ‘Simpler, humbler, bolder Church’ would actually look like? What might our lives, our discipleship, look like if we personally took…

Spaces for residential guests for £316

Online spaces available for £50

Pathways into prayer

3–7 February 2025 (Mon–Fri)

with Annie Naish and Heather Mole

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 £316

The peace of wild things

10–14 February 2025 (Mon–Fri)

with Phil Goodacre and Ruth Meyer

Taking inspiration from the American farmer and poet Wendell Berry, we’ll be exploring ‘the peace of wild things’. Journeying with a range of poets, and…

Spaces available for £316

Falling in love again

14–16 February 2025 (Fri–Sun)

with Adrian and Bridget Plass

Maybe Marlene Dietrich was right. Perhaps that’s what we need, especially at this time of year, when Saint Valentine is peering over our shoulders. How…

Fully booked with waiting list

Online Quiet Day (February)

15 February 2025 (Sat)

with Scargill Community

There will be a warm welcome for you at this online Quiet Day led by Scargill Community. This day will be a mix of input…

Online spaces available

Family event

Back through the wardrobe 1

17–21 February 2025 (Mon–Fri)

with Scargill Community

Something very special happens when Scargill House is transformed into Narnia. C.S. Lewis’ beloved stories come to life in a fresh way as we travel…

Fully booked with waiting list

Family event

Back through the wardrobe for grown-ups

24–28 February 2025 (Mon–Fri)

with Scargill Community

This week will be an opportunity to rest and relax in a Scargillian Narnian atmosphere! There will be a reflection each day and plenty of…

Spaces available for £316

Living the life of the beloved

28 Feb–2 Mar 2025 (Fri–Sun)

with Anna Honeysett and Phil Stone

Henri Nouwen, beloved author, priest, and world-famous counsellor and guide, understood the challenges and joys of the spiritual life. Anna and Phil will explore some…

Fully booked with waiting list

Positively single

28 Feb–2 Mar 2025 (Fri–Sun)

with Annie Naish

Living without a partner – love it or hate it, nearly all of us experience life as a single adult at least for a while….

Fully booked with waiting list

March 2025

Glass fusing for Easter

3–7 March 2025 (Mon–Fri)

with Michelle Gillam-Hull

Learn how to cut and assemble glass ready for fusing in the kiln which I will be bringing along. Your work will be fired over…

Fully booked with waiting list

The Space between

3–7 March 2025 (Mon–Fri)

with Rob Halligan

In between spaces can be exciting, uncomfortable and full of uncertainty, but they are also places of reconciliation, places where bridges are built, uniting us…

Spaces available for £326

Big burning questions

3–7 March 2025 (Mon–Fri)

with Tim Hull

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 £326

Online quiet day (March)

8 March 2025 (Sat)

with Scargill Community

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

Seeing salvation – Images of hope

10–14 March 2025 (Mon–Fri)

with Diane Stone and Phil Stone

Join us for this Lent retreat where we will follow the life of Jesus from his baptism to the cross through the eyes of artists…

Spaces available for £326

Band of brothers

14–16 March 2025 (Fri–Sun)

with Phil Stone and Scargill Community

A men’s retreat – escape into the adventure – in the rugged and inspiring Yorkshire Dales. We will spend time learning about how men met…

Spaces available for £168.50

Threads of grace

17–21 March 2025 (Mon–Fri)

with Jayne Shepherd

A retreat for those who make lace of any kind – bobbin, needle, crochet, tatting. We shall explore how our craft can help us to…

Spaces available for £326

God of the ordinary

17–21 March 2025 (Mon–Fri)

with Dave Hopwood

A chance to reflect on the way God is with us in the everyday and the extraordinary. In the mild, the manic and the mundane….

Spaces available for £326

Walk and talk

21–23 March 2025 (Fri–Sun)

with Helen Brocklehurst

Come and enjoy a weekend of company and conversation while exploring the beautiful landscape around Scargill. We will spend Saturday out in the hills with…

Spaces available for £168.50

Looking again at Luke

24–28 March 2025 (Mon–Fri)

with John Bell

It is sometimes called the Third Gospel and it is commonly supposed that the author was a doctor. But there are many distinct aspects of…

Spaces for residential guests for £326

Online spaces available for £50

Songs of justice

28–30 March 2025 (Fri–Sun)

with Mike Leigh and Phil Stone

Jesus went into the Synagogue in Nazareth and said: ’The Spirit of the Lord is upon me to bring good news to the poor!’ He…

Spaces available for £168.50

April 2025

Are we there yet?

11–13 April 2025 (Fri–Sun)

with Adrian and Bridget Plass

We heard this a thousand times during car journeys with our small children. Some believe that, if we live long enough, pray with sufficient devotion,…

Spaces available for £168.50

Holy Week and Easter Weekend

14–21 April 2025 (Mon–Mon)

with Scargill Community

Join the Scargill Community on a journey through the events of Holy Week. There will be reflections, rest and prayer stations as we journey with…

Spaces for residential guests for £516.25

Online spaces available for £50

Holy week holiday

14–17 April 2025 (Mon–Thu)

with Scargill Community

Join the Scargill Community on a journey through the events of Holy Week. There will be reflections, rest and prayer stations as we journey with…

Spaces available for £248.25

Easter weekend

17–21 April 2025 (Thu–Mon)

with Scargill Community

Beginning with a special meal on Maundy Thursday, we travel together through the agony of Good Friday, the trembling hope of Saturday, and the wonder…

Spaces available for £326

Resurrection renew, refresh, restore

22–25 April 2025 (Tue–Fri)

with Bishop Tony and Lucille Porter

Phew! Just when you thought you couldn’t go on, along comes a week at Scargill designed just for you! Drop everything and book in for…

Spaces available for £244.50

Renew, refresh, restore

25–27 April 2025 (Fri–Sun)

with Scargill Community

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

Enneagram 2: God-shaped people

28 Apr–2 May 2025 (Mon–Fri)

with Diane Stone and Margi Walker

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

Finding a spacious place within

28 Apr–2 May 2025 (Mon–Fri)

with Mike Leigh and Shaun Lambert

Taking the theme of Psalm 18:19 ‘He brought me out into a spacious place’, Shaun and Mike will help us inhabit our God-given spacious place…

Spaces available for £326

May 2025

The call of the wild, the feel of the holy: Finding pilgrimage

5–9 May 2025 (Mon–Fri)

with Russ Parker

‘And how blessed all those in whom you live, Whose lives become roads you travel.’ (Psalm 84: 5, The Message Translation.) Pilgrimage is not so…

Spaces for residential guests for £326

Online spaces available for £50

Spring walking in the Limestone Dales

5–9 May 2025 (Mon–Fri)

with Mike Weighell

Come and discover the wild moorlands and mountains of the Limestone Dales and the beautiful valleys below. We will be climbing some of the highest…

Spaces available for £326

Self-love(d): Mindful journeys to loving God, neighbour AND self

12–16 May 2025 (Mon–Fri)

with Bishop Chris Edmondson and Karen Openshaw

We seem to live in a world obsessed with ‘me time’ and ‘self-love’ but, ironically, one where self-esteem is cripplingly poor. How well do you…

Spaces available for £326

Heart, home and hospitality

12–16 May 2025 (Mon–Fri)

with Phil Stone and Roy Searle

The Kingdom of God is about forming and growing communities of hope and healing in a changing church and world. Come and sit around ‘the…

Spaces available for £326

Celebrating Community

16–18 May 2025 (Fri–Sun)

with Paul & Jackie Reily and Phil & Diane Stone

A weekend to share the questions, joys and challenges of intentional community living. Is the Holy Spirit calling Christians into different forms of intentional community…

Spaces available for £168.50

Online quiet day (May)

21 May 2025 (Wed)

with Scargill Community

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

The woman who anointed Jesus

23–25 May 2025 (Fri–Sun)

with Donna Worthington

Diving deep into this beautiful Gospel text, we will explore this incredible Gospel passage in creative and prayerful ways, through drama, reflection, discussion, prayer etc….

Spaces available for £168.50

Renew, refresh, restore

23–25 May 2025 (Fri–Sun)

with Scargill Community

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

Family event

“Let’s get cracking…”

26–30 May 2025 (Mon–Fri)

with Scargill Community

This half term, with the help of the loveable pair of Wallace and Gromit, we will explore themes of friendship, adventureand creativity as we discover…

Spaces available for £276

June 2025

Birding the Dales

2–6 June 2025 (Mon–Fri)

with Andrew Mann

Discover the varied birdlife that calls the beautiful Yorkshire Dales home in Spring. With Scargill House as our base we will explore the area surrounding…

Limited spaces remaining for £326

Kind and courageous God

2–6 June 2025 (Mon–Fri)

with Dave Hopwood

In Jesus we encounter the God who cares deeply for us. The God who is endlessly patient and kind, humble and strong. By taking another…

Spaces available for £326

Online quiet day (June)

7 June 2025 (Sat)

with Scargill Community

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

Enneagram 3: God-shaped people

9–13 June 2025 (Mon–Fri)

with Diane Stone and Margi Walker

This course is for those who have a good working understanding of their Enneagram space. In Enneagram 3 we look at sub- types, continue to…

Spaces available for £326

Streams in the wilderness

9–13 June 2025 (Mon–Fri)

with Annie Naish

Whilst many of us may wish that God would wave her wand and sort out all our problems, the Bible clearly shows us thatGod is…

Spaces available for £326

Shaped for sabbath

16–20 June 2025 (Mon–Fri)

with Shaun Lambert

We have been created with a Sabbath-spaced shape within but do not know how to inhabit it. This leaves our experience of the Sabbath anaemic…

Spaces available for £326

The way of the Kingdom – working well together & building effective teams

16–20 June 2025 (Mon–Fri)

with Nicky McGinty

As ministry roles become more complex we need to work out how to collaborate well. How do we create and sustain great teams built on…

Spaces available for £326

More humour, more wholeness, more healing?

20–22 June 2025 (Fri–Sun)

with Adrian and Bridget Plass

Over the last year or so we are not surprised to have heard from more and more Christians who are feeling the strain of maintaining…

Spaces for residential guests for £168.50

Online spaces available for £30

The Sound of Musings

23–27 June 2025 (Mon–Fri)

with Bryony Wood

To help celebrate the 60th anniversary in 2025 of one of the world’s most iconic musicals, you’re invited to spend an encouraging and inspiring few…

Spaces available for £326

The treasures of the kingdom

23–27 June 2025 (Mon–Fri)

with Michael Mitton

Jesus said that God’s kingdom is like a treasure hidden in a field for years and then is accidentally found (Matthew 13.44). At this retreat…

Spaces available for £326

Loving Leviticus?!?

27–29 June 2025 (Fri–Sun)

with Phil Goodacre

The Book of Leviticus has a bit of reputation – full of food laws and ritual sacrifices – a seemingly out of date instruction manual….

Spaces available for £168.50

Wildlife walks

30 Jun–4 Jul 2025 (Mon–Fri)

with Hugh Firman & Lisa Chadwick-Firman

From the windswept heather moorlands down to the tranquil riverside meadows, the Yorkshire Dales are exceptionally rich in wildlife. On a series of gentle walks…

Limited spaces remaining for £326

Strong in love, peaceful; and restful – A retreat in the company of Julian of Norwich

30 Jun–4 Jul 2025 (Mon–Fri)

with Ian and Gail Adams

An invitation to explore the gift of Julian of Norwich, in the spacious and beautiful setting of Scargill. The title – Strong in love, peaceful…

Spaces available for £326

July 2025

In tune with heaven: hymns and hymn writers

11–13 July 2025 (Fri–Sun)

with Bishop Chris Edmondson and John Brooke

Join us as we explore the stories behind the music and words of some of our great hymns, and learn what encouraged those who created…

Spaces available for £168.50

Online quiet day (July)

17 July 2025 (Thu)

with Scargill Community

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

Summerfest 1

26–31 July 2025 (Sat–Thu)

with Scargill Community

** WE ONLY HAVE STANDARD SINGLE ROOMS LEFT FOR THIS COURSE** Welcome to our summer extravaganza, whatever your age or budget (you can even bring…

Limited spaces remaining from £147.75

August 2025

Summerfest 2

2–7 August 2025 (Sat–Thu)

with Scargill Community

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…

Limited spaces remaining from £404.25

Summerfest 3

9–14 August 2025 (Sat–Thu)

with Scargill Community

**CAMPING IS FULL FOR THIS EVENT AND WE ONLY HAVE STANDARD SINGLE ROOMS AVAILABLE** Welcome to our summer extravaganza, whatever your age or budget (you…

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…

Limited spaces remaining for £516.25

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