🌿 About The Beeches

The Beeches is a new sanctuary for social justice, collective healing, and ecological action, situated on a 12-acre community-owned space nestled in the heart of the Peak District, just 30 minutes from Sheffield and one hour from Manchester.

In a world facing deep environmental, social, and political crises, The Beeches offers a place of connection, restoration, and collective power-building. We exist for those working towards a more just, regenerative future: movement builders, community organisers, progressive educators, youth activists, radical health practitioners, artists and more. Here, we nurture the relationships and practices that help us imagine and build new systems of care, equity, and resilience.

Our spaces support retreats, residential trainings, collective strategising, community gardening, and events that weave together personal transformation with systemic change. Whether you come for rest, connection, or learning, The Beeches is a place to belong, to dream, and to act.

Facilities

The Beeches is home to:

• A main house and facilities for residential gatherings of up to 26 people indoors, with breakout rooms (5 toilets, 2 showers and 1 bath).
• A large open field for events and gatherings, with camping space for up to 50 people
• Two secluded off-grid woodland cabins
• 8 acres of woodland, an orchard, and a community food garden

🏡 Staying at The Beeches

• Comfortable, simple, community-minded accommodation
• Shared kitchen, communal spaces, and wood-burning fires
• Accessible rooms and facilities
• Opportunities for self-catered stays, catered retreats, or camping
• Incredible nature walks on the doorstep, with Ladybower Reservoir and incredible views across the Peak District from Bamford Edge.
• A private woodland with a fire pit and cabins for indoor workshops.

🗓 What Happens Here

• Retreats focused on nature connection, land justice, political movement-building and health justice
• Youth leadership and intergenerational environmental education
• Community gardening, agroecology, and food justice projects
• Popular education and political organising trainings
• Therapeutic workshops and wellbeing retreats
• Cultural events, music, talks, and film screenings
• Local community events and open volunteer days

Main House Room breakdown

Ground Floor

• Bedroom #1 (Accessible Room) - sleeps 3-4 —1 double and 1 bunk bed
• Bedroom #2 (Sensory Room) - sleeps 1 — 1 single bed
• Bedroom #3 - sleeps 4 — 2 bunk beds

First Floor

• Bedroom #4 - sleeps 6-7 — 3 bunk beds (1 bunk = single over double)
• Bedroom #5 - sleeps 4 — 2 bunk beds
• Bedroom #6 - sleeps 4-5 — 2 bunk beds (1 bunk = single over double)
• Day Room - sleeps 2 — 2 single beds

Second Floor

• Bedroom #7 (Attic Room) - sleeps 2 — 2 single beds (no blinds)

Woodland Cabins (see image gallery below)

Cabin #1

• Sleeps up to 4 comfortably on sofa beds / futons

Cabin #2