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About Us

We are a family owned and operated business

We are a family owned and operated business – with nine of us in total. Our seven children range in age from 3 to 22; all enjoy getting involved and being part of The Green Housekeeper.

We have strong family values and we wanted to abide by these throughout the business. We hope to convey these as simply as possible but we do not mean to preach.

We love and appreciate where we live and passionately feel that we ought to protect, preserve and respect our surroundings.

Working from home gives us the greenest commute (we walk!) and the flexibility to work around school and holidays. We are here seven days per week all year round though we do try to spend as much time over the weekend simply being a family!

We genuinely like to hear from you, please bear in mind as a family business any one of us may answer your call! For general information please ask to speak with Gill or Lauren.

Working from home gives us the greenest commute

Gill – my main responsibilities for The Green Housekeeper are in the day to day running of the business, the production, sales, ordering and payments. I also happily offer advice on specific cleaning methods, I spend far too much time on the phone – chances are if you get an engaged tone – it is me! Apologies in advance, please keep trying.

Lauren – I am also responsible for the day to day running of The Green Housekeeper, I complete the stock takes organise schedules of production and co-ordinate diaries. I am responsible for the wholesale side of the business. I am the creative one! I drew all of our pictograms to represent our policies (please do see our policies page) and designed the ladies to represent our values.

Pippa & Alice – we are responsible for the candles (under adult supervision) and the labelling. We help mummy and our sister with filing too.

Henry – I help by making everybody smile

Henry – I help by making everybody smile and I like to help to build the compost heap and washing and squashing for the recycling. I look after our dog Meg, and the chickens.

Our Dog Meg

More information and pictures can be found on our facebook page at The Green Housekeeper.

Our location (where)

Our grade II listed house and barns were formerly owned by world famous children’s author Beatrix Potter

Our grade II listed house and barns were formerly owned by world famous children’s author Beatrix Potter. We are set in glorious surroundings and our workshops and storage facilities blend into the local landscape. We have taken great care not to alter the appearance or to drastically change the character of the buildings.

We have upgraded all the adjoining barns to create our workshop and business premises. Using only local tradesman we have managed to alter the former animal housing sympathetically to cater for our rapidly expanding business needs. We now have approximately 150,000 square feet of premises to work from – keep the orders coming please!

Many of the original features of the barns have been preserved - our dry ingredients are stored within the shippon enclosures, our preparation area and recycling baths are within the cow byre.

Many of the original features of the barns have been preserved

The former slurry store has been filled and covered to become our packing and despatch area

The former slurry store has been filled and covered to become our packing and despatch area whilst the original Threshing barn now contains all of our packaging.

Further improvements are being made to our staff welfare facilities; these will be built underneath our purpose built bat enclosure, another recent improvement - certainly the bats approve!

Our owl nesting boxes are due to be installed soon.

More pictures of the work in progress (not all of which was completed by Henry) are available, please do contact us if you are interested.