A family members' club · Chesham Old Town, Buckinghamshire

A space designed for Chiltern families.

A family members' club with thoughtful spaces for parents, babies and children up to 12 years. Dedicated fitness and wellness areas, classes and care for children, and room for the whole family to eat, play and spend time together — set in a 1712 country estate with 4.7 acres and its own lake.

Join the founding waitlist What we offer parents ↓

Opening 2027. 400 local families have already registered. Founding members pay £200 a month, frozen for life — limited to the first 100 families.

Concept visualisation — families on the lawn at The Bury, the 1712 manor reflected in its lake
The Bury, from across its lake · concept visualisation
4.7 acres

Lawns, a lake and walled gardens — with indoor play steps away, so rain never cancels the day.

12,334 sq ft

Indoors across three buildings — play, fitness, dining, and rooms just for grown-ups.

0–12 yrs

Spaces designed age by age, from first steps in the crèche to big kids in the crash gym.

4 towns
Amersham3 mi Berkhamsted5 mi Beaconsfield10 mi Tring11 mi
One membership. Zero juggling.

Your week, minus the seventeen tabs.

Right now your Saturday is a soft play booking in one app, a swimming lesson in another, a babysitter on WhatsApp and a cold coffee in the car between Chesham, Amersham and Berkhamsted.

The Bury puts everything inside one gate. Drop the kids at the crash gym or crèche, take a class or clear your inbox in a panelled study, then all meet for lunch by the lake. One subscription. One estate. Your village, rebuilt — in a house that's been here three hundred years.

What Chilterns families already pay each month

Soft play & trampoline park visits£80
Kids classes (swim, gymnastics, crafts)£120
Crèche, babysitting & holiday cover£160
Cafés, days out & birthday parties£90
Scattered across three towns≈ £450
The Bury founding membership£200

Illustrative monthly spend, family of four with two children under 12.

The Spaces

One estate, arranged around the ages in your house.

Somewhere for the baby, somewhere for the seven-year-old, and — crucially — somewhere they are not allowed to follow you.

Babies & toddlers

Under 4
Children playing in a timber play village among hedges and greenery
The vision
Under 4
The Stables

Soft Play & Jungle

Padded, gated and calm at the edges — climbing, sliding and first wobbly steps for the under-4s, with somewhere warm for you to sit within arm's reach.

Children baking at a long table with staff in a bright crèche kitchen
The vision
6 months – 4 yrs
The Annexe

The Crèche

Registered care by the hour, included in your monthly hours. Leave them happily, take a class, come back to a painting.

Kids

4–12 years
Concept visualisation — the Stables courtyard at The Bury alive with climbing and play
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4–12 yrs
The Stables

The Crash Gym

The headline act. Foam pits, air tracks, spring floors and climbing walls in the estate's own stables — where kids fly, flip, fall and get straight back up. Coached sessions and free-play.

Concept visualisation — story time in the panelled Kids Club room at The Bury
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4–12 yrs
The Annexe

Kids Club

After school and all weekend: cooking, making, forest school and holiday camps. Curiosity first, screens nowhere.

Parents

Adults only
Concept visualisation — the panelled adults-only drawing room and bar at The Bury
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Adults only
The House

The Drawing Room & Co-working

Panelled studies, fireplaces, fast WiFi and a bar that opens at six. No buggies, no birthday parties, no one asking for a snack. Take the call, finish the chapter, have the conversation.

A light-filled studio with timber ceiling, tall windows onto trees, and mats laid out for a class
The vision
Adults only
The House

The Studio

Reformer Pilates, yoga, barre and treatments — a full timetable timed around the crèche, so the hour is genuinely yours. No contracts, no treadmills, no strangers.

Everyone

All ages
Wine being poured at a sunlit table with a plate of tomatoes and bread
The vision
The House

The Family Kitchen

All-day dining that takes both palates seriously: proper coffee and a seasonal menu for you, food kids actually eat for them. Sunday roasts, birthday parties, high chairs without apology.

People sitting on a wooden jetty beside open water on a summer evening
The vision
The Grounds

The Gardens & Lake

The bit no other club can build. Four and a half acres of lawn, mature trees and open water — a jetty to sit on, a meadow to lie in, dens to build and a summer that ends on the grass. Every rival in the Chilterns is a room off a car park; this is an estate.

A Saturday at The Bury

9am to 4pm. One gravel drive.

The whole family's day, without leaving the estate.

9:00

Arrive together

Kids to crash gym coaching in the Stables. You to Pilates in the house. Everyone wins.

10:30

Swap over

Little one to the crèche. Coffee on the loggia with the parents you actually like.

12:30

Family lunch

One table in the Family Kitchen, one order, zero "can we go to the one with the slide" negotiations.

14:00

Free play

Soft play and the gardens for them. A book by the lake, or a class in the Studio, for you.

16:00

Home, happy

Everyone's tired for the right reasons. Sunday: repeat, or don't. It'll be here.

Concept visualisation — member evenings with fire pits under the brick loggia arches at The Bury
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And when the kids are in bed — member evenings under the arches.
Membership

Simple, family-shaped pricing.

Every membership includes access to the grounds, 2 classes, and the community. Add crèche hours as you need them.

Adult

£115
per adult, per month
  • Studio access & 2 classes a month
  • Co-working & meeting rooms
  • Family Kitchen member pricing
  • Member events & socials
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Founding families

Founding Family

£200
2 adults + 2 kids, per month — £360 standard, frozen for life
  • Everything in Adult & Child, for the household
  • One class a week, included — double the standard allowance
  • Free coffee for your whole first month
  • 10 crèche / kids club hours included monthly
  • Priority booking on classes & parties
  • Founding wall plaque & launch events
  • First 100 families only
Claim a founding spot

Child

£65
per child, per month
  • Crash gym, soft play & grounds access
  • 2 Kids Club classes a month
  • Crèche hours bookable on-demand
  • Member birthday party rates
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Indicative pre-launch pricing — final packages confirmed with founding members.

What The Bury offers parents

A second home — full of life.

Not a place you take the children and endure. A place where your day and theirs happen in the same building, and you stop choosing between them.

The work-from-home day

Working from home — without the four walls.

Some days home is too small, too quiet, or the kids simply need to be with you. The Bury gives you a proper place to work with your child close by.

Take calls in a focus booth. Run meetings in a private room. Step into the garden when you need air, or drop in on them at the crèche. Then back to work — one building, one commute, a full day done without missing them.

Dinner, actually out

An hour at your own table.

Book a table in the Family Kitchen and leave the children in the crèche or the activity centre for an hour. Long enough for a proper meal and an unhurried conversation — close enough that you can see them if you want to.

And if you'd like a glass of wine with it: our valet service will drive you and your car home. Nobody nominates a driver, nobody counts the minutes, nobody sits in a taxi queue at ten at night.

Parking that isn't a problem

Multiple levels of parking on the estate. No circling the Old Town with a toddler asleep in the back, no meter running down while you're mid-coffee.

Something on, every month

A different artistic or musical event every month — recitals on the lawn, exhibitions in the panelled rooms, live music in the hall. A reason to come back that isn't the same reason as last time.

Care you can actually book

Registered crèche hours included in your membership and bookable by the hour — for a work call, a class, a meal, or an afternoon that's yours.

Somewhere the whole family belongs — and nobody is waiting in the car.

Also at The Bury

The things that make a place somewhere you belong.

Beyond the everyday — the occasions, the clubs and the small traditions a family builds around one place.

Birthdays, handled

Private party rooms and the run of the grounds, with the food, the setting up and the clearing away done for you. Bring your people; we'll do the rest.

The Kids' Cinema

Saturday matinées and rainy-afternoon screenings in the house — beanbags, a proper screen, and somewhere warm for you to sit at the back.

A home for NCT & baby groups

Rooms for NCT reunions, baby groups and new-parent meet-ups — with a crèche next door, coffee that isn't from a machine, and nobody minding the noise.

Holiday camps

Half-term and summer camps in the Stables and the grounds, so the holidays stop being a logistics problem.

Seasonal traditions

Easter egg hunts in the walled garden, Halloween in the Stables, carols by the lake at Christmas. The things children remember.

Private hire

Christenings, anniversaries and family gatherings in a listed house with four and a half acres — available to members and non-members alike.

The Grounds

A poetic space for rest, art and music.

Four and a half acres of lawn, water and old trees. Somewhere to sit still and do nothing at all — and somewhere to be moved.

Trees lit in colour above a lake at night during an outdoor festival
The vision
The summer season closes with the trees lit and the lake full of colour
A string quartet playing outdoors in a flowering garden
The vision
Recitals on the lawn, all summer
Sculpture beside a lily pond in a planted garden
The vision
Sculpture along the water's edge
Wood-fired hot tubs along a lakeshore beneath mature trees
The vision
Swimmers in a lake beside a barrel sauna
The vision
Swim, sauna, repeat
Rest

Water, warmth, and nothing to do

Wild swimming and wood-fired tubs on the bank, a lakeside sauna, and a meadow to lie in. Family hours by day; adults only after six.

Art

A gallery with weather

Sculpture along the water's edge and a seasonal exhibition programme in the panelled rooms — local artists and makers shown first.

Music

Sound that carries over water

Recitals on the lawn, folk and jazz in the hall, and a festival weekend each summer — with selected nights open to the town, not just to members.

Founding membership

Be first through the gate.

The first 100 families become founding members. It costs nothing to register, and it is the only way to get the founding rate.

What founding members get
✓
£200 a month, frozen for life. £360 £200 for two adults and two children — a saving of £160 every month, and it never rises however far standard membership does.
✓
One class a week, included. Swim, gymnastics, music or forest school — four classes a month rather than the standard two, at no extra cost.
✓
Free coffee, all first month. Every coffee on us for your first month as a member. A small thing, and the one you will use most.
✓
No joining fee. Waived entirely for founding families — a £350 saving on day one.
✓
First pick of crèche sessions. Priority booking on childcare hours, classes and holiday camps, ahead of every later member.
✓
A private preview, before we open. Founding families are invited to walk the estate with us, see the plans, and help shape the spaces, the classes and the menu.

No payment now, and no commitment. We'll only email you about The Bury, and you can unsubscribe any time.

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We'll be in touch soon with founding member news — and first swings on the crash gym.