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The report, which was undertaken by Oxford Brookes Business School, highlights the devastating effect the pandemic has had on both us and the local economy.
Residents and staff from Barchester Healthcare, who took part in virtual talks and tours of Blenheim Palace during lockdown, enjoyed the real thing with an in-person visit to our Christmas celebrations on December 8th.
The conclusions from COP26 affirm that, whether as businesses or as individuals, we all have a responsibility to act in the interests of our planet, specifically in becoming carbon neutral in the short term and carbon negative in the longer term.
We are launching our own signature gin in time for Christmas using botanicals grown here on our Oxfordshire estate.
We have announced we have adopted the Oxfordshire-based mental health charity Restore as our official charity of the year for 2022.
Together with Pye Homes, we are sponsoring the Special Recognition category at next year’s Oxfordshire Apprenticeship Award run by the Oxfordshire Local Enterprise Partnership (OxLEP).
We have begun work on a new solar park on former agricultural land northeast of Woodstock.
We are creating a new, full-time role of Sustainability Manager as part of our fight against climate change.
We have been nominated for the Net Zero Strategy of the Year at the Energy Management Awards.
Blenheim Palace has been voted Best Christmas Experience at the 2021 Group Leisure & Travel Awards.
We marked World Mental Health Day with a series of wellbeing events and activities for staff.
The country’s brightest young chess players took part in the 26th Delancey UK Schools’ Chess Challenge at the Palace at the weekend.
Singer-songwriter Jack Savoretti and his wife, actress and artist, Jemma Powell were among guests at the official opening of MASKED, a new photographic exhibition at our Stables Café in aid of children’s charity AT The Bus.
A sponsored sunrise walk through our Park in memory of loved ones has raised more than £2,500 for a grief support charity working with children and young people in Oxfordshire.
A champion chainsaw artist has unveiled a pair of nature-inspired carved benches from fallen trees at Blenheim Palace.
A team of cadets from Kidlington Fire Station has been helping bring the shine back to a Victorian horse-drawn fire engine at Blenheim Palace.
The original Cheltenham Gold Cup is taking pride of place in the Palace ahead of the International Horse Trials which begin on Thursday 16th September.
Our Palace has a leading role in Amazon Prime Video’s new film, Cinderella which launched exclusively around the world in over 240 countries and territories on Friday 3rd September 2021.
We are once again offering people the opportunity to watch the sunrise over the Estate as part of a fundraising walk on Saturday, 25th September.
A lone Spitfire from the RAF Battle of Britain Memorial Flight soars over Blenheim Palace to mark the 76th anniversary of VJ Day
A total of 20 local charities, organisations and good causes are set to benefit from our £50,000 charity and community bursary.
A ‘lost’ horse-drawn Victorian Merryweather fire engine that was part of Blenheim Palace’s private fire brigade has returned to the Palace.
A candlemaker from Long Wittenham has won Blenheim’s annual business start-up competition.
Our Head Gardener made a special visit to a Woodstock care home to help plant a selection of donated flowering shrubs.
Our stunning landscape and parkland is being showcased as part of an outdoor photography exhibition celebrating the natural beauty of the Blenheim Park and Gardens.
Award-winning photographer Pete Seaward has created a stunning new display of wildlife photography for our new exhibition.
We are offering 12 new apprenticeship opportunities in a wide range of roles from bricklaying to social media.
Didcot-based Rebellion Film Studios has produced an extraordinary video to accompany the launch of our new Churchill exhibition at Blenheim Palace, which opened earlier this month.
We have been supporting our furloughed staff and those having to work from home by funding online training courses of their choice.
We are inviting grant applications for our 2021 bursary scheme from local projects and charities that focus their work on bringing people together in the local community.
We are once again inviting entrepreneurs and new businesses to take part in our start-up scheme aimed at boosting their chances of success.
We have confirmed Oxfordshire-based grief support charity SeeSaw as our official Charity of the Year 2021.
This National Apprentice Week (8 -14 February 2021), we are pleased to announce the promotion of one of our apprentices, 19-year-old Woodstock student Nicole Nielsen-Pike, to the role of Guest Services Supervisor.
We live-streamed a series of talks and tours into over 130 care homes across the UK over the Christmas holidays.
A team of conservation contractors is carrying out emergency repair work to fix leaking leadwork on the roof of our Palace with a grant from the Government’s Culture Recovery Fund.
Wooton-on-Woodstock Primary School has created a brand new outdoor learning area and additional storage facilities with the help of a grant from our Charitable Bursary.
Hundreds of care home residents across the UK will be able to enjoy free live virtual tours and interactive talks about Blenheim Palace over the Christmas period.