About the Retreat Centre

Accommodation

We can currently accommodate 29 retreatants, mostly in shared rooms of 3 or 4.  If you require a single room, ground floor room, or ensuite room, please let us know at the time of booking. We will do our best to accommodate you, but our options are very limited and so this will not always be possible, and these rooms will need to be allocated on the basis of need.

Meals

All our food is suitable for vegans. Each day’s menus are designed to provide a tasty, healthy, balanced diet. Retreatants share the cooking as part of the work rota, with menus and ingredients provided by a member of the team. If you have any food allergies, or your diet is restricted on medical grounds, please let us know at the time of booking.

Library

Our library is a quiet, comfortable space and we have an extensive range of Dharma books for you make use of, with a selection available in Spanish and German translation. We keep this room as a silent space throughout the retreat. 

Bookshop

We offer a wide range of Dharma books, cards, notebooks, malas, small rupas and jewellery for sale.

Gardens

We have beautiful grounds to sit or meditate in, or to do walking meditation around the stupa (which contains some of the ashes of Dhardo Rimpoche and was inaugurated by Sangharakshita). There is a pickers patch in the vegetable garden for flowers to use on the shrine. We ask you not to pick flowers from anywhere else in the garden without checking with one of the team first. The garden at the back of the house is the community's garden, so we ask you not to use this area of the grounds. There is a path especially built that runs along the edge of the garden to a gate into the field, for retreatants to use to exit the grounds when going on a walk.

Environmental concerns

We are keen to make our retreat centre as environmentally sustainable as possible. Our heating comes from a wood pellet boiler, with only the retreat centre kitchen requiring gas, and we use a green electricity supplier. We recycle as much as possible, and keep ethical and environmental concerns in mind when we buy things.