The Centre offers a peaceful, but stimulating environment for professional and personal development for residential and non-residential stays. Set in the Low Weald of Kent, the Commonwork Centre can accommodate up to 46 residents, and up to 100 people for daytime use, in a variety of historically intriguing buildings surrounded by beautiful gardens and wild spaces.

"I am writing to say a big 'thank you' for hosting us and making us all feel very welcome when we had our Environment Agency Board awayday at Bore Place. You looked after us perfectly, the food was (as always) terrific, and you are and your team couldn't have made us more welcome.  We're really grateful."
Rt Hon Lord Smith of Finsbury, Chairman, Environment Agency.

"I just wanted to say a huge thank you from all of us at ThePlace2Be for our fabulous weekend. We were all totally bowled over by the venue and by the food and hospitality. We all felt very at home. We will definitely be back over and over again and whenever possible in the coming years."
Niki Cooper. ThePlace2Be

All necessary equipment is available for hire, and we offer delicious home-cooked meals (meat, vegetarian and vegan) accompanied by soft drinks, wine and beer, and fair trade tea and coffee.

Andrew Johnson is our full time chef at Bore Place. Previously at Glyndbourne, Andrew has created high quality menus that use sustainably sourced ingredients.

“…the food, the welcome, the place was amazing...”, ”…butternut squash was divine…”, “…fantastic food, with great ingredients and real flair!!”.  "The food is absolutely wonderful and the staff are without exception friendly, charming and unfailingly helpful.  This is a very special place indeed..."
Clore Fellow

We support and exceed Soil Association (and Jamie Oliver's) targets for non-processed, organic and local food and use ingredients produced on the farm where we can. Our housekeeping team use environmentally friendly cleaning products. Bore Place house is heated by a new wood chip boiler. The fuel is from local woodlands.

The Centre is based at Bore Place on Commonwork's 500-acre organic dairy farm.

Activities to stimulate the mind, body and senses can be arranged to fit in with your own goals and schedule. For example field trail night walk, treefelling, claywork, breadmaking and willow basketry.

Bore Place at Chiddingstone is close to Sevenoaks, Kent and easily accessible from London, M25, Gatwick airport and the continent. Click here for a map. The area is rich in historic buildings and gardens: Bough Beech Nature Reserve, Hever Castle, Penshurst Place, Chiddingstone National Trust village and castle, Emmets Garden and the Greensand Way with spectacular views across the Weald all within 5 miles.

We have been featured in Green Futures (Journal of Forum for the Future). Click here to read the article.

To discuss your requirements and availability email/ring Lyn Kelly 01732 463255 x229

For more on the accomodation, venues and facilities, click here.

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