General Information – Facilities Hire

Daytime:  Whistlewood is a unique off-grid venue, the perfect setting for an educational event, party, family gathering, wedding, musical or theatre event or small Festival.  Or do you simply want to cook your dinner on a campfire or barbecue and watch the sunset?  Or is your group or company looking for a unique meeting venue?

Overnight: Gather some friends for an away-weekend and stay in the yurt or bring your own tents.

Facilities

Choose one or a combination of:

• roundhouse
• yurt
• kitchen
• covered shelter
• campfire/barbeque
• children’s play facilities
• Or bring your own tent and camp with friends or family

Whistlewood’s Hub area can be hired exclusively for larger gatherings at a price of :

Weekdays

£190 per day or £30 per hour – Non Member

£130 per day or £20 per hour – Member

Weekends

£250 per day or £40 per hour – Non Member

£190 per day or £30 per hour – Member

(for a group of up to 50 people (2024 prices)). 

If your group is likely to be larger than this then please contact us for a different quote. This would mean that no other bookings would be made during the time that you are hiring Whistlewood. Hire would include access to all of the facilities included above.

Please click here to find out more about Roundhouse Hire, Camping and Yurt Hire and Other Facilities for individual prices for our different facilities.

Environmental Partnership Pledge – Events

We make it easy for you to have an eco-friendly event by:

• providing an equipped kitchen with pots and pans and cutlery so you don’t have to bring disposable items
• providing composting toilets to process waste, whilst saving water and growing willow and comfrey
• helping your visitors find us by bus or walking (we are on a bus route or a 20-30 minute walk from the centre of Melbourne)
• providing composting facilities for both cooked and uncooked food
• encouraging you to pick and use Whistlewood’s fruit and other produce in your meals (zero food miles!)

In return we would ask you to share our ethics and use the site in a sympathetic way, for example:

• disposing of waste and recycling off-site,
• picking up litter,
• minimising use of disposable items
• avoiding items damaging to wildlife such as balloons, etc
• protecting our trees from damage

• Being green doesn’t have to be a chore!!