About Us

House of Honey

Since the 80s we've been creating and hosting events in beautiful and interesting locations. Our London based parties usually draw between 500 to 1000 guests and the small festival style gatherings usually around 2000. Guests are invited by personal email, with eTickets available only through the HoH website.

NB: Friends, lovers and family, who haven't been to one of our events before, will need to be 'invited' via the website, by someone who has - like you!

Dearly Beloved - Let us Play

We started hosting ‘GIVE!’ parties at The Fortress in Kings Cross and ‘Woy-Oy’ on the MV Cam Leopard at Chelsea Bridge, in the late 80s. Then ‘Kimberley’ in the early 90s and ‘House of Honey’ from the Naughties to the present day.

GIVE! festival was the original boutique festival experience and has now been running annually for over 35 years in a series of glorious, spectacularly beautiful, Arcadian country park settings.

"With one silent laugh you tilted the night, and the garden ran with stars" - Rumi

GIVE History 101

In case you don't know the story...

By the early nineties my sister Poonie & I and the fledgling House of Honey Crew had already been doing GIVE! warehouse parties around London for a few years. A good mate of mine, who’s Mum & Dad owned KIMBERLEY HALL, an imposing Norfolk country pile, surrounded by glorious capability Brown parkland, asked if I'd be up for providing a sound system and a few DJs for an evening knees-up in the cellars under their house, after a day of Cricket and BBQ action in the walled gardens. Pete and I had been roaming around his Mum & Dad's Garden since we met on a school exchange way back in 1974. We'd often fantasied about what an extraordinary place it would be to hold a party if only we could one day convince his parents to let us get away with it.

Now the timing was just right; A boutique festival! . . . Bring together the optimism, creativity, egalitarianism and openness of the blossoming Rave culture and the ravishing, verdant beauty of a discrete country estate. Poonie & I, Pete & his brother Robbie & sister Vanessa met in Ron & Phil's Kitchen and came up with a plan. It hadn't really been done before – at least not with a guest list that transcended the traditional boundaries of class and race and Identity that were still so prevalent in British society. That first one was just 50 Fluorescent Ravers from London and 50 Toffs in fancy dress eying each other up from opposite sides of the swimming pool garden and vaguely wondering how it was going to work out hanging with folk they didn't usually mix with.

Change was in the air and once impenetrable walls were already coming down elsewhere, from the football terraces, to the playing fields of Eton.

Over three decades, all of us together have built a party with the production values of a big festival - but with the intimacy of a Sunday lunch. We've nurtured a diverse, (very) colourful, tolerant, creative community - and collectively conspired to demonstrate to one another, that kindness and love are things worth striving for. XXX