Herefordshire Wildlife Trust is excited to welcome Penrhos Spirits into the ‘Wilder Partnership’ family. The small batch, copper distilled spirit maker is based just outside Kington in rural Herefordshire. After a two-year innovation period, experimenting with the botanicals and fruit found on their farm, they converted the 250-year-old cow shed, and Penrhos Spirits was born. Penrhos is leading the charge for sustainability within the drinks industry, with their switch to 100% recycled aluminium bottles and passion for saving fresh produce from landfill to create their products. Herefordshire Wildlife Trust is excited to be working with Penrhos and its passion to take charge and make noise in the national and international space.
Harriet Williams, Sales Director at Penrhos Spirits says: ‘We are so lucky that at Penrhos, we live every day surrounded by greenery, our bees, animals and beautiful nature. We are two farming families creating award winning spirits on Penrhos Farm in Herefordshire, we use wonky fruit to create delicious gins and are the first distillery to bottle into 100% recycled aluminum. This helped to improve our packaging's carbon footprint by 91% which is something we are very proud of. We want to do our best to protect the environment and the beauty that we are used to seeing which meant partnering with Herefordshire Wildlife Trust made total sense!’
Herefordshire Wildlife Trust CEO Jamie Audsley says: “We’re excited to join forces with Penrhos Spirits as corporate members and collaborating on our events programme. They share our dedication to taking action for nature, nature-based solutions and a passion for innovation to support sustainability and biodiversity. There are lots of ways we can collaborate to support nature’s recovery in our county.”
Herefordshire Wildlife Trust and Penrhos Spirits are collaborating on a joint event this summer, featuring a walk through the wildflower meadows of Birches Farm, followed by a Penrhos spirits tasting session.
Meadow walk & gin tasting: details and booking
Herefordshire Wildlife Trust’s mission is to put nature into recovery: reversing the declines in the abundance and diversity of native habitats and wildlife. Everyone should have the chance to hear the call of the curlew across Herefordshire’s meadows, walk through boughs of blossom in our traditional orchards and watch wildlife from the leafy banks of cool, clear rivers.
The Trust, however, can’t do this alone. We need to collaborate with landowners, communities, schools and businesses to create a wilder, greener and more sustainable Herefordshire. There are a multitude of ways we can make a difference together from small projects such as installing wildlife ponds to recovering nature on a larger-scale – collaborating on wetland creation or meadow restoration for example.
We are keen to work with urban and rural businesses to support nature-friendly practices from landscaping and planting around offices and inspiring staff and customers to looking out how production methods or supply chains can be altered to be better for nature.