Our Story
Trigonos was born in 1996 – a not-for-profit social business that provided opportunities for retreat, personal growth and professional development to a range of individuals and groups.
About Trigonos
Established in 1996, Trigonos is a non-profit, socially and environmentally conscious event venue, guest house and biodynamic farm. The Trigonos team provides a warm welcome to guests in quiet and calm surroundings.
Trigonos offers tranquil accommodation with delicious vegetarian buffet breakfast, comfortable rooms, lovely gardens, and shared library and lounge. There is on site parking available and a small gift shop.
Trigonos prides itself in offering warm hospitality, providing guests with an opportunity to escape from the busyness of everyday life in a calm and relaxing environment with 18 acres to enjoy.
-Ros Tennyson, co founder of Trigonos
“Trigonos was individualised rather than institutionalised. That, combined with attention to detail (candles and colourful napkins on the dining room tables, for example) and the sense of nature brought into the different spaces – whether through the views from each of the windows or the little vases of flowers on the bedroom tables. Trigonos provided the backdrop for looking both inwards and outwards. It was valued because it was a space simply to be rather than to be something specific. This was an observation often made by group leaders whose groups seemed to find it very easy to make the place their own during their stay”
The meaning behind the name and logo
The founders spent some time exploring their respective priorities, ideas and aspirations and these tended to align around the concept of ‘three-some-ness’ – which may or may not have been influenced by the fact that there were three of them!
Inspired by a particularly beautiful image of the Celtic Triskele on an old piece of ironwork, they were taken with the depiction of three elements flowing interdependently out from and back to the centre. A continuous process of movement between the whole and its parts. They agreed that the three-fold nature of this shape and seemed to closely echo their thinking about three-some-ness… and how a factor of three would always be stronger than a factor of two (with its tendency towards polarisation and thus potential for conflict).
As Judy pointed out early on, the great thing about a triangle is that it remains sturdy no matter which way you turn it. So slowly they came to the name ‘Trigonos’ (a 3-sided figure in Greek) and very shortly after that we stumbled across a modern stained glass version of the triskele in a shop window. It is less delicate and rhythmical that the traditional versions, but perhaps was more suitable being modern and forward-looking in terms of its style and bright colouring – none of them wanted to get caught in the past.
