Arvon Foundation
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About the Arvon Foundation
In 1968 two poets, John Fairfax and John Moat brought together 16 school children for a week of living and working together as writers. Their guest reader on that first week was the Poet Laureate, Ted Hughes. The week was a huge success and the Arvon Foundation was born.
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Arvon has since gone on to open Centres in Devon, (Totleigh Barton) Shropshire, (The Hurst, formerly the home of the late John Osborne) and Yorkshire, (Lumb Bank, formerly the home of the late Ted Hughes).
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Moniack Mhor in Inverness is supported by the Arvon Foundation but owned by the charitable company, Moniack Mhor Ltd. Courses run at Moniack Mhor are included in the annual Arvon brochure and regarded by customers as Arvon courses.
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Arvons patrons include, Dame Beryl Bainbridge, Lord Melvyn Bragg, John Le Carre, Dorris Lessing, Sir Tom Stoppard and Salman Rushdie.
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