$250.00 USD

United Kingdom Business Households - 2024

This is the 2nd annual gathering of businesspeople, whether employees or owners or entrepreneurs, who are uniting to do explore the possibilities and practicalities of kingdom business in the UK.

  • The registration fee (of ±£200) per person covers

    •  Welcome drinks on Thursday (20 June) night
    •  Lunches on Friday,  Saturday and Sunday
    •  Supper on Friday night

    You’ll need to book/organise

    •  Your travel to Moggerhanger Park - aim for 5:30 pm arrival on 20 June.
    •  Bed & Breakfast (see options below)
    •  Suppers on Thursday and Saturday

    Accommodation options:

    •  Up to 44 participants can stay on site at Moggerhanger Park in 22 double rooms for £80 per room per night.
    • Once you register (and pay) for the event you will be sent a link to the booking form for the accommodation. First come, first serve.
    • Overflow guests can stay nearby in B&Bs in Bedfordshire and Wyboston (both 15 mins away)
    • NOTE: The maximum capacity is 50 people (of which up to 44 may stay on site)

    Programme

    • Friday & Saturday: facilitated conversations, testimonies and prayers about kingdom business households
    • Sunday: optional “unconference” meetups about specific topics or projects, self organised by each of you.

PS: Dear couples, while you are one flesh and will save by sharing one room, our budget of ±£200 / $250 is per person.

HISTORICAL CONTEXT

The venue was a home and in that spirit we will a group of friends in the home of friends. Some history...

In 1777 Robert Thornton inherited Moggerhanger from his uncle, Richard Astell, and sold the estate to his brother Godfrey later to become Deputy Governor of the Bank of England (for which John Soane was the architect). Although Soane worked on many important country houses, including Wimpole and Tyringham, Moggerhanger is considered among his finest and most complete houses.

The house was built in two phases, (in the periods 1790-1793 and 1806-12) first for Godfrey and secondly for his son Stephen and is beautifully situated in a specially designed landscape by Humphry Repton. The time and attention given to Moggerhanger by its architect is testament to the close friendship with the family, reflected in meticulous records. The Thorntons were cousins of William Wilberforce and fellow members of the social reforming Clapham Sect.