Month: November 2024

The Woodhorn Business Centre, set in the superb West Sussex countryside, supports a diverse range of businesses. We’re home to more than a dozen companies ranging from management trainers and camper van hire to fabricators and architects.

When our owner John Pitts took over Woodhorn Farm more than 25 years ago, he was keen to explore ways in which to diversify the business. With a set of farm buildings no longer required for agricultural use, the decision was made to convert them, and the business centre was born! We now have over 27,000 square feet of mixed commercial use space, including self-storage units, offices, warehousing and light industrial workshops.

Today we are very proud to be supporting a fantastic group of local companies including:

• Chichester Biltong – makers of premium biltong and home to the largest biltong drying facility in the UK and Europe
• Growtrain – training company with a focus on the land based sector
• Landcruise – motorhome hire specialists with a fleet of vehicles for rental
• M&J Engineering – expert engineering company, offering solutions for agricultural, horticultural and other sectors
• Blue Frog Cleaning Services Ltd – commercial cleaning services
• Sloane & Brown – chartered building surveying and architectural practice
• SM Autos – used car sales specialising in Jaguars
• Victoria Clancy Psychotherapy – child and adolescence therapist
• White Rose Training Academy Ltd – specialist beauty and aesthetic training courses
• WMEC Ltd – wastewater management company
• Global Scaffolding – scaffolding design and installation service
• The Southern Shows – organisers of garden shows held at beautiful stately homes
• Simon Wickins – classic camper rental with a family of Mercedes vans
• K&M Scaffolding – quality scaffolding for construction projects
• All Heights Roofing – roofing company covering West Sussex
• BuildPlus Maintenance – property renovation, refurbishment and restoration

With easy access to the A27, both Chichester and Bognor Regis nearby and free parking, our commercial spaces offer a stunning rural location with views of the South Downs, plenty of beautiful outside space and our herd of Organic dairy cows often found in nearby fields.

Both of our West Sussex sites in Oving, the Woodhorn Business centre and Ham Farm, are highly sought after but to discuss future availability, please contact Kayleigh Akehurst.

Reflecting on what’s happening down on the farm, John Pitts, our owner and fourth generation farmer at Woodhorn, shares some thoughts about the farm’s relationship with Organic Herd.

Organic Herd is a farmer owned co-operative of around 100 Organic dairy farmers across the UK and we at Woodhorn have been proud members for the past 25 years. Organic Herd supplies milk to the likes of Yeo Valley, Wyke Farms and Kendal Nutricare baby foods. As well as being the only 100% Organic dairy cooperative in the UK, they are also the only supplier of milk in Europe that come from farms that never use antibiotics.

A year ago Organic Herd launched an own range of speciality cheeses, butters and chocolates. None of these are available in supermarkets simply because the big chains expect to take such a big percentage of the sale price that, after production costs, there would be nothing left to go back to the farmers.

So instead these products are available through delis across the country, stores such as Planet Organic and in our vending machine at Woodhorn Farm!

All products are made by artisan producers that fit Organic Herd’s ethos (“How We Farm Matters”), are made to historical recipes, are additive free and of course are made from milk that is certified Organic and antibiotic free. Cheeses are made using traditional cultures and matured in wooden boxes, whilst butters are cream tumbled in 1960s butter barrels and then hand salted and churned in small batches.

Whilst this might seem an Organic Herd advertisement, it’s simply another part of our story and who we are at Woodhorn, supporting all the things we are trying to achieve.