Dunfield House

Wishing everyone a relaxing and peaceful Christmas with all good wishes for 2010. 

 Our stables accommodation is now available to book, we are offering a 10% discount for a self catering bookings in January,  February or March [Stables only] 

Please contact Sue or Paul for details.

Following a vist by Milby Primary School in June were were delighted when one of the parents who visited asked if she could paint a picture for us as a thank you from her. We discussed places that a picture could be hung with the entrance hall being a favourite spot.  

presentation on the 5th July 2009

Hayley with her gift

We shared in a lovely day together with Hayley and her family and Alan Vickers and his family [Alan was the group leader] when the picture was presented to us.  We want to thank them for their commitment to Dunfield.

The painting was a gift which is now hanging  in the entrance hall, with the picture taking on different dimensions as the light changes.  We look foward to working with Hayley in the future and are pleased that she had the opportunity to share in the “Dunfield Experience”

This letter was left in the kitchen by the girls from Bablake Junior School on the second day of their visit:

To Cooks,

Thank you for cooking such mouthwatering food.  Especially the chocolate cake!  keep up the good work.

from room 6 girls [Avni, Ruby, Prashanti, Jessica & Cherie]

20 new photo’ s have been added to the flickr page. Some were taken during the recent snowy weather and the others are of some of the snowdrops that are in flower at the moment.  Spring is on the way!!!!

Dunfield has switched over to three phase electricity to enable us to develop the site even further.  The work was carried out smoothly and efficiently in a very confined space.

Trustees of the Dunfield Board and Executive Committee are meeting at Dunfield this weekend for trustee training with Jim Hammett from Christian Camping International.

We are looking forward to an informative, information sharing meeting  that will ensure that Dunfield is in safe hands and equipped to move forward into 2009.

Gigne Music is staying in the main house for a weekend of rehearsals, relaxation and fun.

 Barton Training Trust held their children’s Christmas camp at Dunfield at the end of term.  Children were able to play and share together in traditional christmas fun.

The children wrote a song appropriately to the tune of the twelve days of christmas which the staff ‘performed’ for them.  The stockings around the fire were made by the children and were filled for them to open on the last day, father christmas was very generous and the children had great fun opening and playing with their presents just before they left.  I like the 5th & the  11th day!!!!!

You are welcome to sing-a-long:

On the First Day             Some swimming in the pool

On the Second Day        2 Christmas trees

On the Third Day            3 Flashing lights

On the Fourth Day          4 Games of sport

On the Fifth Day             5 Hot Chocolates

On the Sixth Day            6 Wrapping papers

On the Seventh Day       7 Games of Uno

On the Eighth Day          8 Sheep a dancing

On the Ninth Day            9 Adults singing

On the Tenth Day           10 Cooks a cooking

On the Eleventh Day      11 Helpings of pudding

On the Twelfth Day            12 Christmas trees

Dear Sue & Paul,

At last a lull in the ‘Christmas’ rush to write and thank you once again for the lovely welcome at Dunfield and super Christmas dinner, pastries etc; not least the musical accompaniment to our attempt at carol singing – lovely!.

Thank you so much on behalf of all the ladies of Kington Trefoil, and a Happy New Year,

Kind Regards

J. Adamson

A family spent the weekend together at Dunfield on the 5th – 7th December 2008.  It brought three generations to Dunfield to celebrate a birthday.  The log fire, comfortable welcoming ambience and beautiful weather all played their part in making it a really good weekend.  A packed lunch on the Saturday allowed for trips out to local villages & Christmas activities whilst a party [sit down meal] on Saturday was rounded off with traditional party games – the game of sardines was enjoyed by all!!!!!!

Feedback from the family included ‘Dunfield feels like home’, ‘all ages were catered for’, ‘very friendly staff’, ‘cleanliness of the whole site’, ‘freedom of space’ and ‘excellent food’.

If you would like to arrange a family get together then why not look at what Dunfield has to offer, Sue & Paul are more than happy to chat with you about the possibilities and opportunities to meet together.

We would like to welcome both new visitors and friends of Dunfield to our updated website.  If you are new to the site, welcome to Dunfield House , we hope the pages will give you a taste of what we can offer.  If you have visited Dunfield before we hope you enjoy the changes and new features.

The site is easier to navigate, if you know what you want to look for then use the search engine to take you directly to that part of the site.  Take a moment to follow links to the local area, photographs on flickr or become a fan of Dunfield on Facebook.  Download wallpaper for your computer.

New to the site, is a dedicated area for group leaders to add information personal to their trip.  This area will be password protected [issued when booking is confirmed]  it can be used both prior to during or after your stay to share information to members of your group visiting Dunfield.  Your page can also act as a point of information for parents and/or family members at school and home while you are away.

Our aim is to build a resource section to help group leaders with their planning, using good practice already established by groups who have visited Dunfield.  The opportunity to share photographs and comments following your visit will help us build an interactive site and encourage guests who visit to share their own unique story about being at Dunfield.

We look forward to the development of the site as an interactive resource for new enquiries, group leaders visitors and friends of Dunfield.

Sue & Paul