Latest News - February 2012
Charcoal Production Starts Agian
We're off again and the first charcoal burn of 2012 was greeted with a covering of snow.
Natonal Bean Pole Week
The Dorset Charcoal Company shall be supporting National Beanpole Week by attending The Dorset Coppice Groups Open Day on 21st April @ Bonsley Wood.
www.beanpoles.org.uk
www.dorsetcoppicegroup.co.uk
August 2011
Stock Gaylard Oak Fair August 2011
The Dorset Charcoal Company attended the Oak fair.
May 2011
Glastonbury 2011
The Dorset Charcoal Company will again be the official charcoal wholesaler for the 2011 Glastonbury Festival of Contempory Arts.
New Stockists
P Keatings Butchers in Wimborne, Armstrongs Butchers in Winton
and Hordle Service Station in Hordle.
November 2010
Fire and Light Display
The Dorset Charcoal Company recently supplied the Fire and Light Display in Southampton city centre.
Daylesford Organic Farm Restaurant
We are now the major supplier to Daylesford Organic Farm Restaurant.
River Cottage Outside Caterers
We are proud suppliers of River Cottage Outside Caterers who this year attended Camp Bestival and Guilfest amongst many others.
Georgia Papageorge
Artist Georgia Papageorge used Dorset Charcoal in her latest exhibition of work currently showing at the Art First Gallery in London.
Farming Today Radio 4
The Dorset Charcoal Company was featured on Farming Today Radio4 this summer highlighting the diversifacation opportunities open to farmers in finding a use for low value timber.
BBC Countryfile
The Dorset Charcoal Company also appeared on BBC Countryfile on 22nd of August, as one of a number of Dorset suppliers to the Lush Cosmetics Co.
May 2010
Charcoal Burner becomes the face of a cake!
Honeybuns new Coppice Cake features photo and text detailing the benefits of British Charcoal.
The Dorset Charcoal Company is included in the recently published
"The Good Food Producers Guide".
Dates to remember in 2010
Saturday 9th October 2010
Charcoal Burning Course at The Living Classroom - Bonsley Wood.
Saturday 17th April 2010
The Dorset Charcoal Company will be exhibiting at The Living Classroom - Bonsley Wood
to celebrate National Beanpole Week.
For more details visit
Dorset Coppice Group.
Friday 25th to Sunday 27th June 2010
The Dorset Charcoal Company will again be the official charcoal wholesaler for the 2010 Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Arts.
Saturday 28th August 2010
We shall be exhibiting at this years Stock Gaylard Oak Fair.
For more details visit www.stockgaylard.com
To avoid disappointment, if you particularly wish to visit the company at any of the shows it is always worth contacting us nearer the time, as due to the seasonal nature of the business, plans have a habit of changing!
March 2010
We are now proud to be a member of the Direct from Dorset Scheme.
Recently we supplied Horticultural Charcoal for use in HRH Prince of Wales, Highgrove Gardens, Gloucestshire.
News items from 2009...
The Dorset Charcoal Company has recently been featured on the ITV Local Regional show Country Lives aired across the south of England. This proved to be a lovely piece of filming explaining what we get up to and why! Repeated nationwide more recently.
Dorset charcoal was used at the spectacular Inside Out Festival of Light in Bournemouth Gardens at the end of the summer of 2008.
Over the years we have supplied our charcoal for a myriad of uses,
including;
Charcoal powder supplied to cosmetics firm for the production of soap among other products.
Softwood charcoal supplied to research companies for laboratory testing has extended beyond these shores to France and Germany.
Charcoal supplied for props in the production of “Dead Woman`s Ditch” ... the story of a murderous charcoal burner!
Charcoal powder used as a poxylan and pigment in mortar by specialised building firms for restoration of Windsor Castle among many other conservation building projects.
Charcoal powder of different species supplied to artists and firework manufacturers.
Oak and chestnut charcoal has been supplied to aid in a number of Iron Age Smelting Experiments.