A former teacher has won our Start Up Challenge 2022 competition with a unique product that literally takes a hands-on approach to mental health.
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We have appointed a new Community Officer to significantly strengthen our relationship with local communities.
We are creating a giant new outdoor adventure play attraction as part of a major development of our Walled Gardens.
A fleet of barges has been specially built to undertake a massive dredging operation of the iconic Queen Pool at Blenheim.
More than 20 local charities, organisations and good causes have been awarded funds from our £50,000 charity and community bursary.
We received a silver award for Accessible and Inclusive Tourism at the Beautiful South Awards for Excellence.
We are on track to achieve a hugely ambitious set of 10 goals which affect every aspect of our Oxfordshire UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Our staff are being invited to plant a tree and join free weekly yoga classes as part of a campaign to create a healthy workplace environment.
We have joined other local organisations in donating urgently needed first aid supplies, food and clothing for Ukrainian refugees.
We are launching an exciting series of podcasts on Spotify.
Hosted by the Palace’s social historian, Antonia Keaney, guests include TV presenter Sue Perkins and broadcaster Hugo Vickers.
Of many pioneering initiatives on the Blenheim Estate, tree planting is the most important facet of our climate change strategy, addressing problems and creating opportunities.
Blenheim Palace’s dedicated team of cleaners has been nominated to become VisitEngland’s Tourism Superstars of 2022.
As part of National Apprenticeship Week (7th-13th February) at Blenheim we're on track to achieve our goal of training 100 apprentices within 10 years.
Local charities are being invited to apply for funding as part of our £50,000 bursary scheme.
Climate change is a very real and present threat. For Blenheim, along with so many others, our efforts to both delay the pace of change and mitigate its impact have been central to our thinking for many years.
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.