Dredging of our Queen Pool will be paused over Christmas and re-start in the spring.
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We have received the prestigious Sandford Award for Heritage Education for the ninth consecutive time.
More than 70 farmers from across Oxfordshire attended the inaugural farming conference on our Estate.
Our Estate in Oxfordshire could become home to the UK’s most powerful solar farm with the capacity to generate electricity for more than 330,000 homes.
Darwin Escapes is set to offer a new way to experience our Palace and Estate, after partnering with us to launch a new range of luxury staycation lodges.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 total of 20 local charities, organisations and good causes are set to benefit from our £50,000 charity and community bursary.
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.
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.
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.
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.
We have set up a bursary fund which is helping a local business deliver earth-friendly household cleaning and body-care products to Woodstock and the surrounding villages.