What's On
Upcoming events at Asthall Manor and Asthall Manor Kitchen Garden
In addition to the events listed below, we host yoga with Tiffany Lindsay on Monday evenings, from 6-7.30pm.
Tiffany is a senior yoga teacher with decades of experience.
If you would like to find out more, or make a booking, please contact Tiffany on [email protected] or 07554057986
We’re also happy to be the new location for Fat Squirrel’s monthly Campfire Conversations. Friendly, relaxed, outdoor networking for making new connections, in our walled garden on a Thursday. For booking and dates please click here.
Fat Squirrel Outdoor are also offering fully hosted team building axe throwing sessions in our beautiful rural location on most Saturdays. For bookings please visit FSO website here.
See our Event Archive for previous events, so you can see the kind of things we get up to, and in case you are thinking of proposing an event. We are particularly open to community groups, small businesses and charities wanting a space in which to think and dream.
For our booking cancellation policy please click here
4th February - 20th June
The Garden will be open every Wednesday in February for the fabulous snowdrops, and from 20th May-20th June every Wednesday, Friday and Saturday afternoon for the springtime delights here in the meandering garden at Asthall Manor. Please book tickets in...
4-part Year-Round Ecological Food Growing Course
21st March - 5th September
Wanting to learn how to grow your own food throughout the year or to simply improve your food growing skills? Join us in Asthall Manor Kitchen Garden for this 4-part course, taking you on a full circle yearlong ecological food...
Atmospheric Perspective in Oils – Painting workshop with artist Kieran Stiles
22nd May - 1:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Join Kieran for another of his popular painting workshops here in the beautiful ballroom and grounds of Asthall Manor. Atmospheric perspective is the term given to describe the bluing effects of air on the landscape, when viewed over distance. Explore...
Gardening with Wildlife in the Summer workshop
30th May - 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Some for the Birds, Some for the Bugs and Some for Us. Join us for a workshop on the benefits of gardening with wildlife here at Asthall Manor Kitchen Garden. As usual, complete beginners through to keen amateurs are all...
9th June - 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Claire is a Wellbeing and Nature Connection Coach with an International Forest Therapy Diploma from Nature & Therapy UK, where she is also a senior mentor for upcoming practitioners. She facilitates Forest Bathing walks, retreats and courses across the Cotswolds, creating space...
Making Compost and Natural Fertilisers – Turning Waste into Gold
13th June - 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
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...
Into The Garden – a women’s peaceful retreat
14th June - 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Charlotte from Medicine of the Sisterhood has created a gathering woven softly into the weekend before the turning of Summer’s peak, held in our quietly magical grounds, a quintessential English country manor. You will be joined throughout the day by...
The Art of Positive Living – Recharging your inner battery
24th June - 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Join Helio Coaching & Training for a transformative one-day retreat designed to shift you from “constant doing” to purposeful being. Co-founders Emma Saxby and Jennifer Souter (who leads our on-site yoga sessions) invite you to join them in our historic Ballroom and...
The Architecture of Asthall Manor- a painting workshop with artist Kieran Stiles
26th June - 1:00 pm - 4:30 pm
A mixed media painting workshop in connection to a retrospective exhibition of work by John Piper at The Portland Gallery, St James’s, London. (portlandgallery.com) Explore how the naturally flowing forms of the gardens at Asthall break-up the hard edges of the architectural...
1st July - 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Pedalling from venue to venue with all of their set, props and costumes on the back of their bikes, the HandleBards are a four-strong troupe of actors who are spending the summer bringing environmentally sustainable Shakespeare to venues across the...
7th July - 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Claire is a Wellbeing and Nature Connection Coach with an International Forest Therapy Diploma from Nature & Therapy UK, where she is also a senior mentor for upcoming practitioners. She facilitates Forest Bathing walks, retreats and courses across the Cotswolds, creating space...
18th July - 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Handlebards return to Asthall Manor for a hilariously high-octane production of Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth’ like you’ve never seen before. Forget the tears and tragedy, our Macbeth is chock full of mishaps, mayhem and mirth. We all know the story. Three Witches...
Seed Saving – Closing the Loop on your Food Growing
19th September - 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
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...
17th October - 10:00 am - 18th October - 4:00 pm
Join us here at Asthall Manor Kitchen Garden, for a two-day voyage, journeying deep into the living soil beneath our feet, investigating all that lives there and the composts that best feed it for our food-growing needs. A good understanding...
Gardening with Wildlife in the Winter – Some for the Birds, Some for the Bugs and Some for Us
14th November - 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Join us for a workshop on the benefits of gardening with wildlife here at Asthall Manor Kitchen Garden. Complete beginners through to keen amateurs all welcome. A thriving and diverse population of insects and animals, big and small is key...