HAPPENINGS
Led by the Seasons
Christmas Wreaths
Join us for a guided workshop with our House Florist, Sophie Witham. Create your next festive talking piece during the wreathmaking class using winter flowers, foliage and fragrant herbs.
Christmas Pudding
Learn how to make a perfect Christmas pud in our Home Kitchen with help from Thyme’s top chefs. Gift your pudding to someone special or stock the larder ready. Just add brandy butter…
Festive Gifting: Jams & Preserves
This festive season, learn to prepare the finest jams and chutneys with help from Thyme’s top chefs. Gift your homemade preserves to those you love or stock the larder in preparation for the big day.
Create Academy Presents: Festive Wreath Making with Willow Crossley
Join acclaimed florist and floral stylist Willow Crossley for a special festive wreath making workshop. Willow will first give a demonstration using different types of fresh foliage and techniques, before you create your own professionally styled wreath under her guidance.
Festive Canapés & Apéritifs
Impress your dinner guests this festive season with simple and delicious canapés. Suitable for festive parties - or Christmas Day itself - these seasonal recipes will inspire and delight. Recipes change class to class but might include potato scones with sour cream and smoked salmon or chard and feta filo parcels - alongside a sloe bellini or quince martini. Following the class, enjoy your canapés and apéritif in the Baa Bar.
Festive Instinctive Cook
The Instinctive Cook is Thyme's long-standing, flagship cookery class. The class begins with a walk to the kitchen gardens, harvesting whatever is in season and at its best. Cook a main course and a dessert along with an apéritif. Recipes are subject to seasonal availability but might include poppyseed blinis with cured salmon; gnocchi and crisp sage; chestnut, chocolate meringue roulade and a grenadine-based cocktail.
In the class, we explore the fundamentals of flavour to give guests the confidence to go beyond our recipes and cook instinctively with the season's best available produce, learning a variety of skills, tips and techniques along the way.
Festive Gifting: Sweet Treats
Elevate the indulgence this Christmas and learn to make the most delightful seasonal sweets. Gift your hard work to those you love or stock the larder in preparation for the big day.
Christmas Wreaths
Join us for a guided workshop with our House Florist, Sophie Witham. Create your next festive talking piece during the wreathmaking class using winter flowers, foliage and fragrant herbs.
Festive Canapés & Apéritifs
Impress your dinner guests this festive season with simple and delicious canapés. Suitable for festive parties - or Christmas Day itself - these seasonal recipes will inspire and delight. Recipes change from class to class but might include potato scones with sour cream and smoked salmon or chard and feta filo parcels - alongside a sloe bellini or quince martini. Following the class, enjoy your canapés and apéritif in the Baa Bar.
Baa Bar: Bossa Nova
Introducing Baa bar Bossa Nova!
Start your Thursday evenings this winter the best possible way, sipping on elegant botanical cocktails and fine wines, while you carouse to lively jazz, before dining in the magnificent Ox barn.
Fireside Sessions: Live music at The Swan
Join us for cosy fireside sessions every Friday evening at the Swan throughout December.
Feast on hearty winter warming menus and enjoy a tipple or 2 while you revel in live music and joyful cheer throughout this festive season.
Baa Bar: Bossa Nova
Introducing Baa bar Bossa Nova!
Start your Thursday evenings this winter the best possible way, sipping on elegant botanical cocktails and fine wines, while you carouse to lively jazz, before dining in the magnificent Ox barn.
Fireside Sessions: Live music at The Swan
Join us for cosy fireside sessions every Friday evening at the Swan throughout December.
Feast on hearty winter warming menus and enjoy a tipple or 2 while you revel in live music and joyful cheer throughout this festive season.
Baa Bar: Bossa Nova
Introducing Baa bar Bossa Nova!
Start your Thursday evenings this winter the best possible way, sipping on elegant botanical cocktails and fine wines, while you carouse to lively jazz, before dining in the magnificent Ox barn.
Fireside Sessions: Live music at The Swan
Join us for cosy fireside sessions every Friday evening at the Swan throughout December.
Feast on hearty winter warming menus and enjoy a tipple or 2 while you revel in live music and joyful cheer throughout this festive season.
Baa Bar: Bossa Nova
Introducing Baa bar Bossa Nova!
Start your Thursday evenings this winter the best possible way, sipping on elegant botanical cocktails and fine wines, while you carouse to lively jazz, before dining in the magnificent Ox barn.
Festive Wreathmaking
Join us for a guided workshop with our House Florist, Sophie Witham. Create your next festive talking piece using winter flowers, foliage and fragrant herbs.
Art for Charity Collective Live Auction at The Swan
Join singer Jack Savoretti and his wife, artist Jemma Powell, for an auction of 12 carefully selected artworks, hosted LIVE on Instagram (@artforcharitycolletive) from 7pm on Monday 11th December. Tune in and bid in the comments section of the LIVE, each lot will go to the highest bidder, above the stated reserve price.
Festive Treats: Christmas Canapés
Our garden nibbles take many forms - from pea-topped crostini to fried courgette flower, learn how our chefs bring the seasons and garden produce to the plate. In this masterclass, you will be introduced to some of our delightful garden nibbles.
Fireside Sessions: Live music at The Swan
Join us for cosy fireside sessions every Friday evening at the Swan throughout December.
Feast on hearty winter warming menus and enjoy a tipple or 2 while you revel in live music and joyful cheer throughout this festive season.
In Conversation: Diana Henry & Molly Tait-Hyland
An instant classic when it was published 20 years ago, Roast Figs, Sugar Snow remains the quintessential book on the magic of cold weather cooking.
Diana writes evocatively about both place and food, making it a book well worth reading, as well as cooking from. This revised and expanded edition includes eight new recipes and new forewords from Diana Henry and Nigel Slater.
Baa Bar: Bossa Nova
Introducing Baa bar Bossa Nova!
Start your Thursday evenings this winter the best possible way, sipping on elegant botanical cocktails and fine wines, while you carouse to lively jazz, before dining in the magnificent Ox barn.
Art for Charity Collective Exhibition Launch at The Swan
Join us to celebrate the launch of the Art for Charity Collective Exhibition at The Swan in aid of Tusk.
ACC in partnership with Thyme, has curated a very special exhibition which will be taking place at Thyme’s, The Swan at Southrop from 22nd November to 10th December 2023. The exhibition, inspired by nature, will showcase a variety of paintings, prints and photographs as well as some very special paintings by artists inspired by Thyme’s beautiful gardens.
The exhibition launch is Wednesday 22nd November, and will be raising money for Tusk Trust.
We have a wonderful evening planned, with a two course menu of delicious pub classics included in your experience price, along with a £10 donation per person to Tusk.
Please join us 30 to 45 minutes ahead of your booked time for a complimentary drink and nibble in the heart of the exhibition in our beautiful Carousal where the ACC team will be on hand to chat about the artworks and the charity itself.
At the time of your booking, head to the main bar, where one of the team will guide you to your table.
Included in the £40 ticket price:
A welcome drink & nibbles in the Carousal, a two course pub classics menu, a £10 donation to Tusk
The works on show will be available to buy in person at The Swan, as well as on ACC’s website. To accelerate our fundraising, we will also be holding an art auction which will be streamed LIVE on the ACC’s Instagram platform. Hosted by the brilliant singer Jack Savoretti and his wife Jemma Powell, artist and ACC ambassador - tune into the auction on Sunday 3rd December at 7 pm following this handle @artforcharitycollective.
