St Clere Estate

25/09/2026

🌿 We’re looking for someone to join the St Clere team. We have an opportunity for someone to work with our estate team looking after the gardens and grounds at St Clere.

We’re looking for a practical, hardworking person who enjoys being outdoors and takes pride in doing a job well. You’ll need to be a good team player, completely reliable, positive in your approach and flexible — no two days at St Clere are the same! Ideally you’d have horticultural or grounds care experience and an interest in a wide variety of tools and machinery.

The role can be part-time or full-time, and we’re looking for someone to start as soon as possible. There is the opportunity for a permanent position for the right candidate.

If you have a love of gardens, grounds and the countryside, and think this could be you, we’d be very pleased to hear from you.

Please apply to [email protected] with a brief cv and short covering letter saying why you think you’d be the right person for the role.

18/09/2026

Rummaging around a basement cupboard I found these cracking cuttings. No idea which paper they were from…

18/09/2026

LOGS LOGS LOGS
Keep an eye out for our fabulous new banners with this cracking image on!
We are holding our prices until the end of the year;
£220 for a 1.6m cubed bucket (equivalent to over 3 bulk bags)
£525 for a 4m cubed trailer (equivalent to over 8 bulk bags).
Kindling £7 a bag (free bag with first order).
VAT is payable at 5% for domestic.
Local Delivery is free.
Contact Emma on 01732 761309 for more information or to place an order.

07/09/2026

Logs 🪵🪵
Zero wood-miles
100% estate grown, felled and processed never leaving the estate until they are delivered to you
We take immense pride in our sustainable woodland management

Watch out for details of this years availabity later this week, but don’t let that stop you calling us
01732 761309 or drop us an email [email protected]

04/09/2026

30/08/2026

Just popped up to Camp Wildfire and man alive people are having good, clean fun up there. The forest is full of the sound of small groups of people laughing, clapping, cheering and occasional ukulele! And I love the fact you can tell whether people are there for the first time (t-shirt and shorts), the second time (camp wildfire t-shirt, shorts and squirrel ears, see photo for example of year 2 participants) or three plus times (full on hi-di-hi outfit with badges, possibly flashing braces and a squirrel tail plus face paints).

29/08/2026

Over 50% of all tickets for Camp Kindling 2027 are SOLD OUT🎉

We're still slightly reeling from this one. The forest gates closed on 2026 only 4 days ago, and half of next summer's tickets have already gone.

We know what sits behind each of those bookings. Working out whether the dates clash with something. Checking whether the other family can make it too. Deciding to spend a chunk of your year's holiday on a weekend with us is no small thing, and we are truly grateful to all of you.

If you've been meaning to sort yours, this is the gentle nudge. Veteran tickets and Ultra Earlybird tickets are on sale now.

Book your family's Camp Kindling 2027 weekend using the link below 👇

https://wldknd.uk/CK27UEB

To each and every one of you, Thank You! 💌

Jules & Lee 🛶🕺🏽🌲

26/08/2026

Some fabulous feedback in this morning from a new user of the St Clere 6 Acres Dog Walking Field; “Hiya, I just want to say we hired the field Saturday and oh my god, it’s incredible! You’ve thought of everything! An amazing space that our dogs loved!”.
Now our one year permission has been turned into permanent planning permission and we have extended hours, PLUS insurance, water, a secure area to release your dogs and all the things not-strictly-legal fields don’t have, we are hoping to make it even better for our waggy tailed friends and their lovely owners/walkers. www.6acres-stclere.co.uk

24/08/2026

FIRE - Again!
All of us living in Wrotham/Ightham/Borough Green/Kemsing have just had a seriously near miss with an arson fire. One of our team, Ali, thank GOD smelt smoke as he was heading home and he called Martin and the two of them found a fire that had been deliberately set along the pilgrims’ way byway. This is the fourth time there has been a fire deliberately set in that area this year. This time it has taken the fire brigade 2 hours to put it out, and has involved the St Clere team staying at work hours late to assist. The team also brought water down from where it was on standby at Camp Wildfire. Let alone the wasted time of our heroic fire brigade.
If anyone knows who is setting these fires, the time has come to report them to the police. At any time arson is incredibly dangerous, right now it is even worse. Today we have avoided a fire that could have been as bad as the fires we have seen across the country causing catastrophic damage to homes and property, injury and serious physical repercussions to communities from the smoke. But for the care and commitment of the team here, moments later that fire would have taken hold of the bone dry fields full of what is essentially kindling and nothing would have stopped them spreading to all the villages around.

⚠️ Wildfire risk is currently very high due to the prolonged hot and dry weather.

If you're enjoying the outdoors this weekend, please take extra care - Avoid anything that could start a fire, including barbecues, campfires and discarded ci******es

If you spot a fire, move to safety and call 999 immediately.

Thank you for helping protect our communities, wildlife and natural spaces.

22/08/2026

Joy of joys more flytipping, the last lot got cleared by the council last week and yesterday more appeared overnight. If anyone recognises the vehicle, it entered the lane full, and emerged empty 3 minutes later. Not many legal council run landfill sites in the vicinity so I think we can say with certainty that the driver was responsible. Honestly, I really do struggle with people who fly tip, or frankly even drop litter. There’s a beauty spot on Exedown Road that people drive to, presumably specifically to enjoy the stunning view while having lunch, and then leave the rubbish from their lunch. Can anyone help me? What is that about?