Howbery Business Park

Our family tree trail starts today. Pick up your free map and activity pack from the Manor Café this week (9am-4pm on weekdays).

Congratulations to the Howbery Park team for their success at the HR Wallingford annual awards where they won the Sustainability trailblazer award. The award recognised the continued efforts to make Howbery Park a more sustainable place; being champions for positive change and transforming the way we do things, while making the Park a resource we can all enjoy.

We’re looking forward to our family tree trail happening again at the end of the month. You will be able to pick up a free tree trail pack with map from the Manor Café from Monday 28 October – Friday 1 November between 9am and 4pm. The trail goes round eleven of our notable trees and there’s a short description of each tree on the map. When you’ve found all eleven trees and return to the café at the end of the trail you can collect a small reward. Our grounds are open until 6pm and are only a short walk via a footpath from Crowmarsh Recreation Ground. There is a bus stop outside the site and ample free parking. Young children need to be accompanied on the trail, as there are some roads and slow moving vehicles in Howbery’s grounds. The café is open to the public on working weekdays. For a virtual tour and insight into just a few of the many trees on the park please see https://lnkd.in/exR8SNn.

We are looking for a catering assistant to join our busy café and hospitality team. Monday – Friday 7.30am – 4.00pm (full time 40 hours per week) Salary: £12.00 per hour (£24,960 per annum) You will be delivering a professional hospitality service to our clients who use the conference facilities within the Business Park and will also help with our food service, providing counter service in the café, as well as delivering food and beverages to customers at the table. You will need to clear and clean tables in the café and outside dining area. Applications close 31 October 2024 Interested? Please apply directly via careers@hrwallingford.com providing your CV with covering letter. For further details please see https://lnkd.in/eAFQQvd6

A great opportunity here on the Park.

Our grounds are providing a therapeutic backdrop for a new treatment room for dementia patients, which has been set up by a local doctor. Dr Daniel Casey, who specialises in dementia in his full-time role for the NHS, has begun offering a pioneering treatment out-of-hours in our Manor House. “At Howbery, I am offering an add on treatment for people with Alzheimer’s using the Neurolith Transcranial Pulse Stimulation (TPS) machine (Venn Healthcare and STORZ MEDICAL AG), which received a medical CE-mark in December 2018,” explains Dr Casey. “I really like it because it is non-invasive and painless – it uses sound waves to stimulate areas of the brain identified in a scan. As a new treatment, the evidence base is still growing, so we’re collaborating with Marco Samuel Fabuš from the University of Oxford who has a background in both physics and medicine. “I already knew the park as my children go to Puddleduck Nursery here, and I thought the setting would be ideal for my clinic. Our patients like the grounds and the historic architecture, which have a more therapeutic feel than a hospital. The parking is also a lot easier. Some of our patients travel some distance to get here, and enjoy spending time in the Howbery grounds and discovering Wallingford.” Dr Casey plans to expand the clinic (Neuro Clinics UK) by inviting other doctors to offer pioneering treatments for neurological and psychiatric conditions, now that it has received Care Quality Commission (CQC) approval. He is also working with Anastasia DEMINA at the Dijon Bourgogne University Hospital and University of Burgundy, to summarise the results of patient outcomes from across Europe, Asia and America.  Full story: https://lnkd.in/eUByEC_n

Vacancy here on the park.

We are pleased to announce the winners of our art competition. In the over-18s category the winner is Stephen Gray, and highly commended artists are Sally Maddison and Paul Whitehouse. In the under-18s category the two winners are Jessica from Wallingford School and Amelie from Benson C of E School. Congratulations! And, thank you to the artists who participated in the competition, your artwork has created a fantastic exhibition.

Looking forward to this being re-created in our grounds.

The final judging for our art competition has taken place and it was great to see such a range of fantastic artwork submitted across the different age categories. Winners announced 5pm on 10 September at the Manor House. Exhibition opens 4pm on 10 September, and then 11-13 September from 10am-4pm.