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Ease into the weekend with a relaxed Friday evening at Bombay Sapphire Distillery, set within the beautiful surroundings of Laverstoke Mill.

What To Expect

Your experience begins with a fun speed cocktail masterclass, where you’ll learn to create our signature Laverstoke Cocktail, a much-loved serve, guided by our expert hosts. From there, you’re invited to explore our iconic glasshouses, discovering the ten sustainably sourced botanicals that shape the distinctive flavour of Bombay Sapphire, all set against the striking backdrop of the distillery.

Following your masterclass and exploration, enjoy a Bombay Sapphire Sparkling Lemon Cocktail before settling into our Mill Bar terrace overlooking the River Test, where you can continue your evening with a curated selection of cocktails and seasonal small plates, available to purchase and enjoy at your own pace. To round off your experience, you’ll also take home a Bombay Sapphire Balloon Glass – the perfect keepsake from your evening at the distillery.

What’s Included

• A speed Cocktail Masterclass led by our expert host, learning how to make our signature Laverstoke Cocktail • Access to explore our iconic glasshouses • A Bombay Sapphire Sparkling Lemon Cocktail • Entry to the Mill Bar and Outdoor Terrace • Opportunity to purchase additional cocktails and seasonal small plates throughout the evening – see small plates menu • Bombay Sapphire Balloon Glass to take home

Please note

This experience is available for over 18s only. We operate a challenge 25 policy so all guests are asked to bring valid original photo ID.

Come along and join in the Whitchurch Acoustic Session at the Sports & Social Club.

Have some fun, make a noise, try out some new tunes.

All genres of music welcome, as are all levels of ability.

Take a behind the scenes tour of our nursery on 17 September 2026.  From 10.30am – 11.30am

Usually only offered to Gardening Clubs and Horticultural Societies, this year we are offering individual gardeners the opportunity to visit and take a behind the scenes tour.

The tour includes a visit to our propagation house, where your guide will tell you more about how we propagate our peat free herbaceous perennials, a walk through our polytunnels and a look inside the potting shed.  Your guide is happy to answer any questions you may have about how we grow.

This is a rare opportunity to take a look behind the scenes of the nursery where Rosy Hardy continues to grow RHS Gold medal winning plants for her own floral displays and for other garden designers projects.  It’s also where we grow all of the stock we sell to the general public and to trade customers.

As herbaceous perennials are seasonal, the plant material that you’ll see will vary throughout the year.  We anticipate a lot of colour and different cultivars and varieties at this time of year.

Tea, coffee and biscuits included in the price.  

Before booking, please consider the following:

The tour is a standing/ walking tour of 45 minutes to an hour. Seating is available but is limited. The tour includes a step between tunnels. Our paths are gravel and uneven, so it is essential to wear sturdy footwear. Manual wheelchair users may find this tour a challenge, whereas motorised wheelchairs should be ok, but they will take an alternative route to avoid the step. Please dress for the weather, layers of clothing and hats are always useful. The propagation and other tunnels can be hot. Please bring a water bottle if it is a hot day. Our potting shed is the summer home to returning swallows who will be flying around. We will try and accommodate dietary needs e.g. gluten and dairy free but need to know 10 days in advance of the tour. We cannot guarantee an allergen free environment. If you have a food allergy please let us know and bring your own snack. We have 3 toilets on site, 1 of which is adapted and fully accessible

Please note we are not a Garden Centre and do not have a tearoom or lunch facilities on-site but can recommend some great spots for lunch or coffee which are local to us. Please ask us for more information by emailing: info@hardysplants.co.uk

If you anticipate coming as part of a larger group and using a coach operator to travel, please get in touch before booking.

Four Seasons ‘Autumn” Bingo

Join us for a relaxed evening of bingo, great company and plenty of chances to win. And that’s not all… We’ll also have a raffle with more prizes up for grabs!

Basket Meals £5

Doors open at 7pm. Starts at 8pm

A mainstay of the London art scene since his starry breakout in the creative explosion of the 1960’s, Julian Sklar (Ian McKellen) has drifted into a cluttered, self-imposed seclusion. His two estranged children enlist Lori (Michaela Coel), a young painter and sometime-forger, to pose as a prospective assistant and gain access to a fabled series of unfinished canvases Julian has buried deep in his home studio, in a deceptive bid to secure an inheritance for themselves.

Doors Open 7pm.  Film commences at 7.30pm.