Sustainability

We currently employ 26 local people in various departments – as cooks, kitchen aids, dishwashers, waiters, cleaning ladies, joiners, building workers, drivers, gardeners, grooms and administration staff. Furthermore, we are trying to encourage a more sustainable and traditional way of restoring the local houses by advising and helping out with our trained woodworking staff and our workshop. Having financed and led the restoration of the village community hall, our latest and largest project is the restoration of the old Saxon St. Nicholas Church. The church dates back from the early 15th century and quickly deteriorated after it was abandoned by the Saxon community in the late 1990s. In 2013 we managed to raise funds from generous donors to rebuild the roof structure, and in 2014 we have started on the interior, which we hope to finish by autumn 2017. We will then move onto the exterior works and, one day soon, this landmark building will be able to serve our local community as a church, village museum and space for concerts and readings.