Ham · near Sandwich · Kent

TheBlazing Donkey

Some things only shift
when you leave
everything else behind.

Residential workshops · Ham, near Sandwich, Kent

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Come and do the work

Residential workshops in a private house — small groups, a few days, and enough room to get somewhere.

What happens here →02

Bring one, or build one

Take the whole site for a programme you already run, or arrive with an idea and develop it alongside our team.

How to work with us →
A sitting room with a bare board floor, a green velvet armchair beside a brick archway, and a plain kitchen dresser under a small window.
Plate I ·The old bar, kept plain

The Blazing Donkey is an old set of weatherboarded buildings down a lane between Sandwich and Deal. It has been a good many things; it is now a house given over to residential work.

Work that goes anywhere needs people to stay in it — through the evening, through the awkward hour after dinner, through to the next morning. That is why this is a house with beds and a kitchen rather than a room hired by the day. No other party in the building, no passing trade, and a lane that is the only way in.

Look round the place

A long room under an open beamed roof, with one refectory table running its full length, laid with glasses and napkins.
One long table, one long room

One large room for the group. Smaller ones for everything else.

The main hall clears to a full circle under an open beamed roof. Around it are snugs with fireplaces and doors that shut — for pairs work, one-to-ones, or someone who needs ten minutes without leaving the building.

An open lawn with wooden picnic benches, a small shepherd’s hut and a canvas lodge set back under trees.
Plate II ·The grounds run back to the trees

Not sure which of those you are?

Plenty of people are somewhere between the two. Say roughly what you are after and we will point you the right way.

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