Past Events

Come and join us for a hands-on workshop here at Asthall Manor Ballroom. We will guide you through the art of flower pressing, showing you how to select and prepare your flowers through the seasons, which ones work and which don’t; with our help, you will learn how to press your own flowers. We’ll also give advice on making your own flower press, and show you how to create beautiful designs using tips and techniques we’ve learned along the way. You will…

Join us for a workshop on home composting here at Asthall Manor Kitchen Garden. Complete beginners through to keen amateurs all welcome. In this all-day workshop you will learn the basics of different composting systems alongside a bit of helpful theory. You will also carry out some fun, practical work to apply your learning and to help keep us warm. Good, home-based or community-based composting is one of the key but often missing links to achieving the growing of healthy,…

Learn how to experiment with many different ways of creating the effect of reflections and light on water using oils on gesso primed board. We will be based outside at the Kitchen courtyard at Asthall Manor (below) and working from direct observation by the lake. All materials included except for an A4 hardback sketchbook which you will need to bring for notes and preparatory studies. Please be aware that this workshop will be run during Asthall Manor open garden. Please arrive early…

*Please note – there is an error on our newsletter. The date of this event is Saturday 6 July. Visit Asthall’s St Nicholas Church on Saturday 6th July as two acclaimed musicians, Violinist Priya Mitchell and Cellist Claude Frochaux, perform two miraculous works side by side. The concert will start with Bach’s most famous and beloved cello suite followed by the Sonata for Violin and Cello by Ravel written in 1920 and dedicated to Claude Debussy. Both are magical, iconic…

*Please note – there is an error on our newsletter. The date of this event is Saturday 6 July. Another England: Caroline Lucas talks to Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall about her new book. The right have hijacked Englishness. Can it be reclaimed? Join us in the Ballroom as Britain’s (so far!) only Green MP, Caroline Lucas, talks about her new book,  Another England,  in conversation with chef, writer and environmental campaigner Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall. This thought-provoking book delves deep into our national history and makes a…

Come and join us for a hands-on workshop here at Asthall Manor Ballroom We will guide you through the art of flower pressing, showing you how to select and prepare your flowers through the seasons, which ones work and which don’t and with our help you will learn how to press your own flowers. We’ll also give advice on making your own flower press and show you how to create beautiful designs using tips and techniques we’ve learnt along the…

Location: Asthall Manor Gardens  This Special Sunset 90mins sound healing and lying down classical concert experiencewill leave you feeling rejuvenated mentally, emotionally and spiritually inspired by mother nature as you Lie Down outside on soft mattresses in the grounds of Asthall Manor, Cotswolds. What to expect Your experience will begin with a guided relaxation and deep listening to the sensations and sounds of nature. Then Christina will guide you through a blissful Tibetan sound bowl healing. Helping to restore harmony to out of balance vibrations. Equally…

Join us for a workshop on saving seed, here at Asthall Manor Kitchen Garden (opposite Asthall Manor). Complete beginners through to keen amateurs all welcome. It is well documented that the best seed you can sow is the seed that you have saved from your own garden, where those plants have learned to love to grow! In this all-day workshop you will learn the basics of saving seed from different vegetable plants and their beneficial companion plants. This will involve…