Our commitment to planting trees and offsetting our carbon footprint, has given rise to our unique and innovative ‘woodland office’
A natural workspace designed for our team to be able to work outside and close to nature.
The impact we have on our environment and community is close to our heart at Varn.
We look to bring a positive contribution to our community and the planet. As well as using 100% renewable electricity, recycling whatever we can, we also positively offset our business and staff commute carbon footprint through buying, planting and managing our very own Varn woodland.
This innovative and creative outdoor workspace is set in the middle of the Varn woodland in Bradford on Avon, and focuses on promoting employee wellbeing, celebrating the natural world and as well as offsetting our carbon footprint many times over.
They say you never own a woodland but just manage it for the next generation. We now manage over 35,000 trees, consisting of predominantly hardwoods such as ash, oak, beech and cherry. The woodland management plan is to not only absorb as much CO2 as possible but to also promote natural biodiversity through a small scale ‘rewilding’ programme.
The woodland office is a way for us to celebrate all the wonderful things that being outside and around nature can do for us, and to share this with our hardworking team.
Our VarnFest Woodland Events
Our outdoor woodland office has been an inspirational setting for our VarnFest events, one of a kind woodland business festivals created to share honest, relatable and real business stories and challenges with business owners, directors and also future leaders.
Mind is a charity that provides advice and support for mental health, and they have shared a feature about how spending time in green space or bringing nature into your everyday life can benefit both your mental and physical wellbeing.
Mind summarises that being outside can do all of these brilliant things…
Do you want to come down to the woods…?
We are always happy to host events and team get togethers at our woodland office, so if you are interested in using our woodland office space for outdoor meetings or are looking to host your team with an innovative and inspirational setting, get in touch with us.
