As we wrap up another wonderfully busy year, we wanted to share a special moment of celebration with all of you. Our Christmas video was made with good cheer, plenty of laughs, and deep appreciation for everyone that makes Alscot the special and unique place it is.
We wish you all a bright and joyful Christmas and a happy and successful new year.
Thanks for being part of our journey!
We’re now in our second year of regenerative farming, and it’s been fantastic to see real progress taking shape.
As part of our commitment to sustainable land management, we’re grazing our SFI land with organic sheep – working in partnership with Daylesford Organic and other local farmers. Daylesford has provided 700 organic Lleyn sheep to graze between October and December across 650 acres of overseeded Alscot land, laid with herbal leys.
This approach not only supports soil health and biodiversity, but also contributes to the wider goal of sustainable and organic food production, which we believe is essential for healthy living.
We won Best Green Business in the Stratford Herald Business & Tourism Awards!! 🏆
Winning Best Green Business means the world to us because it recognises our vision for the future and the heart of everything we do — our commitment to sustainability, innovation, and creating a positive impact on our community and the planet. It’s a reflection of the hard work, vision, passion, and purpose that drive our team every day. This award reaffirms that doing business responsibly and protecting the environment can go hand in hand with success.
As part of our sustainable land management practices, we conduct baseline surveys and carefully monitor improvements in soil health, plant life, and wildlife diversity. Surveys across grasslands, woodlands, water bodies, and arable land are now well underway, helping us build a valuable dataset for the future.
A recent bird survey, carried out on the 5th and 6th of March, yielded encouraging results. A diverse selection of waterfowl was recorded, including teal, gadwall, mallard, snipe, moorhen, and little grebe. In the woodlands, red kites were observed nesting, while fieldfare and redwing thrushes—winter visitors to the UK—were noted both in the woods and on some grasslands. These birds were busily feeding, storing energy for their migration back to mainland Europe.
Renown children’s television producers, Ragdoll Productions, visited Alscot Park to film a live-action sequence for two episodes of Twirlywoos, their pre-school series. The Twirlywoos, a combination of stop-frame animation and live-action, features four small, bird-like characters who are inquisitive, enthusiastic and always looking to learn something new about the world. Ever curious, they seek adventure and fun wherever they go!
BBC Midlands Today featuring Shakespeare Distillery, based here at Alscot, and the harvesting of the mulberries at New Place, Stratford upon Avonfor their Mulberry Gin Liqueur,
Watch HERE
American production company, Cry Havoc Productions Inc. filmed scenes at Alscot Park, featuring some of Jaguar Land Rover's top marques, to appear in an episode of Super-Car Super-Build. The programme show-cases the passion, artistry and engineering behind some of the fastest and most lust-worthy supercars in the world. Exploring the process to create some of the world’s greatest automobiles and discovering what makes each marque’s mechanical prowess.
A Charity Fashion Show held for Shakespeare Hospice and Stratford Bards Cricket Club raises over £4,000 for the two organisations.
The setting was perfect, on the evening of 6th July, as the Alscot Estate XI played cricket against the Birmingham Property Professionals “All Stars” XI. Having won the toss the Estate put the opposition into bat and proceeded to put in place damage limitation as the “All Stars” hit 4s and 6s for fun! Despite some excellent fielding from all players (and some not quite so good catching) the All Stars managed to race along at just under 10 an over to post a formidable total of 191 in ...20 overs.
Alscot was pleased to host 40 Savills Land Agents from across the UK for their annual two day corporate gathering. There was a variety of interesting and relevant speakers, and land agents took part in a tour across the Estate where pit-stops had been arranged in order to show the diversity of the Estate land. Later on the delegates enjoyed gin from Alscot based distillers Shakespeare Distillery and dinner at The Bell, Alderminster - the Estate's own country pub.
Mixed forest woodchip (hard and soft wood) available. £40 per cubic metre and minimum order 10 cubic metres. Free delivery within a 10 mile radius. Delivery charges outside of a 10 mile radius available on application or customers may collect with advance notice.
For orders please call David Arnold 07768 288440 or e-mail contact@alscot.co.uk
The Partners of Knight Frank hosted a private dinner and special concert at Alscot Park on 4th May 2017.
Orchestra of the Swan, an international professional orchestra based in Stratford upon Avon, are mid-way through their 21st anniversary season, an important milestone, and one which Knight Frank were thrilled to mark with this significant sponsored event.
David Le Page lead the Orchestra as they played Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, in the stunning and magnificently preserved Grade I Rococo gothic style house, to invited guests.
Emma and Andrew Holman-West are avid supporters of the Orchestra and were delighted to contribute their private home, Alscot Park, as the perfect venue for such a special fundraising evening.
Based locally at Grove Business Park, artisan coffee roasters and suppliers, Monsoon Estates have bagged yet another high calibre industry award. Chris, Anne and their latest recruit, son Will, hand roast in small batches to literally provide excellence in a cup. Monsoon, who supply the Estate's own pub; The Bell at Alderminster with its own unique Alscot Blend coffee, appear in the Great Taste.
Sajid Javid, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills was invited to the thriving Warwickshire country Estate to meet personnel from a range of diverse businesses and enterprises based on the 4,500 acre site at Atherstone on Stour. He was interested to establish what the Estate is doing for local businesses and also in seeing the future vision for land that is proposed for employment use, which is greatly needed in the local area.
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