Memberships
Join the family with a Blaithwaite Estate Membership
There’s an adventure around every corner!
Join today and enjoy exclusive woodland access, conservation days, discounts and newsletters. There is so much more to enjoy at Blaithwaite Estate with an annual membership!
By joining, you are helping us to maintain and restore ancient woodlands. Our conservation work helps increase biodiversity and ensures future generations can enjoy the estate grounds.
Membership Benefits
With an annual Blaithwaite Estate Membership you can enjoy:
- Unlimited access to over 80-acres of our estate throughout the year for walking and exploring, including two woodlands, a wetland and play parks
- 10% off all Blaithwaite events and activities
- 5% off in our cafe and shop
- Two conservation membership days per year
- Quarterly estate updates, a membership card and a car sticker
- Two seasonal Nature Passports per year
- All the feel good vibes that you are helping to support a local family run business and most importantly, our Cumbrian countryside – we can’t do this alone, and appreciate all your help
Please note, any time you come to the Estate you must have your membership card with you as proof of membership.
Membership options
When you join, your yearly membership will be on a pro-rata payment system. Our annual renewal date is 31st January.
Once your membership has been confirmed, you will receive an email with all of your discount codes and access information to our site. Please keep this email and make sure to store it on your phone so you can access the full Estate during your visits. Thank you.
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Family
An annual membership for a family of up to five (2 adults, 3 children). £10 per additional child.
Join us
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Explore
Explore our extensive estate woodlands. Our 200-year-old Arboretum Quarry Wood (15 acres) and North Park Wood (over 40 acres) – a heritage ancient woodland – are some of the oldest woodlands in the area. With stunning trees, and plenty of wildlife our woodlands truly are magical. In the spring, enjoy a floor of colour with bluebells and daffodils and in the autumn, revel in the bright orange hues! Wonderful walks await to de-stress, exercise your pet or enjoy picnics with the children.
Roam
With over 80 acres to roam freely, you’ll find walks galore at Blaithwaite. All our paths are separated from farm stock and interconnect between our woodlands. Bring all generations of the family together, including the dog (on/off lead), and escape for a while in our glorious countryside.
There are areas for a picnic and plenty to keep the little ones interested, our nature passports help unlock the wonders of nature.
Get involved
Take part in our two free annual membership days where we will host guided woodland walks and estate conservation activities. They are a chance for you to learn more about the estate grounds, our history and to get your hands dirty by taking part in some woodland restoration including planting, clearing and habitat making! Keep an eye on our events page to find out more.
Estate Days
Picnic & Play
When the sun is shining, why not come down and enjoy a picnic? There is plenty of space! We’ve got lots of fun activities on the estate too, including a play park, crazy golf and giant chess in our Orchard Garden, all free of charge.
Events
Throughout the year we host a range of events including our famous Halloween Spooky Spectacular, Easter days and our Christmas Courtyard. Your membership will entitle you to 10% off all of our events here are Blaithwaite.
Eat
Come and enjoy our cafe and farm shop (opening Summer 2022) for a post-walk warmer or ‘just because we love cake’. All of our produce is local and our menu is seasonal. Your membership will entitle you to 5% off throughout the year, plus our teatime 10’s card – meaning every 10th cuppa is on us! Open weekends and all holiday periods.
How does your membership help?
Arrive, Enjoy, Make Memories.
Your support via our Blaithwaite Estate Membership will help to ensure that we can continue our conservation efforts and the restoration of our ancient woodlands, for the benefit of all our members and environment.
Our aim is to increase biodiversity, rewild other areas on the estate and to ensure that the estate grounds can be a haven for wildlife. We want the estate to be here for the future generations of our community and all of our conservation work will contribute towards this. When you join, we’ll send you a quarterly newsletter keeping you up-to-date on our conservation progress, estate events and nature news! Our child-friendly Nature Passports will be issued twice per year, featuring seasonal changes.
The funds will also help us to keep our estate open to the public, provide all the insurance that we need to keep us all safe, the making and upkeep of pathways and walks, nature information boards and help us host our on-site activities. It will allow us to keep everything up-to-date so that whenever you visit, you’ll have a wonderful time. We want to continue to share our wonderful estate with you.
Terms & Conditions
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All the gates will have coded locks. You will be given the codes but must keep these confidential. You will be sent new codes via email when appropriate.
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When on the estate, members must have their membership cards with them. We will have staff around and about who will randomly ask for proof of membership. If you do not have proof of membership, you will be kindly asked to leave.
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When attending a Blaithwaite Estate event, please ensure you have your membership card. You will be asked for this on arrival.
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To ensure you receive your 5% discount at the shop and cafe please show your membership card. Without your membership card, you will not be entitled to the discount.
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Membership online discount codes MUST NOT be shared.
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All dogs must be kept on their leads.
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When dogs foul, we operate a ‘stick and flick’ policy to ensure poo bags aren’t left as litter and pathways are kept clear. If you’d like to pick up your dog poo, then please ensure you take the bag away with you!.
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We work hard to ensure the estate is well looked after and is kept looking beautiful. If visiting, please ensure you leave the estate as you found it by taking all litter and belongings home with you and observing the countryside codes including closing all farm gates behind you.
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When on the estate please respect your surroundings and other people using the estate grounds, including our holiday guests and our staff members.
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On occasion we will need to restrict access to certain areas of the estate, due to the hosting of weddings/events, work on the grounds or woodlands, farm/seasonal needs. We list all of our weddings, events and area restrictions on our web calendar [https://www.blaithwaite.co.uk/events/categories/] and Facebook page. In addition, there will be signs throughout the estate and you will be notified in advance wherever possible.
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Anyone staying in our grounds or properties belonging to Blaithwaite Estate are entitled to this access with their stay.
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Memberships are non-transferable.
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Membership renewal date is 31st January annually.