Rutherford Park Country Retreat
Highlights
- Experience uninterrupted 100-kilometre views over picturesque countryside, enhancing your retreat's serene atmosphere.
- Enjoy wholesome country-style meals with generous portions, catering to all dietary needs with prior notice.
- Relax in a quiet rural setting, perfect for personal development retreats and community gatherings.
- Utilise versatile meeting rooms equipped with modern AV facilities, ensuring a productive environment year-round.
Located just a short drive from Daylesford, Rutherford Park Country Retreat is a group accommodation centre situated in picturesque countryside, with uninterrupted 100 kilometre views over the surrounding farmland to the hills beyond.
With its quiet and private rural setting, Rutherford Park has been catering to the needs of personal development retreats, music rehearsal, conferences and various other community organisations for over 25 years.
Rutherford Park offers guests a range of meeting rooms, large split level dining room, ensuite bathrooms to all accommodation rooms, a deck area with fire pit, large outdoor court area (basketball, netball, etc.) and an expansive lawn area with volleyball. With air-conditioning to the main meeting room and central hydronic heating throughout the entire facility, Rutherford Park is a great destination all year round.
Rutherford Park prides itself on catering good wholesome country style meals of generous proportions. Guests with special dietary requirements are also happily catered for (with prior notice).
Rutherford Park is located 15 minutes from Daylesford, 30 minutes from Ballarat, 80 minutes from Tullamarine Airport and 90 minutes from Melbourne’s city centre.
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Accreditations
- Camp/Adventure Activity Accreditation Program
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Quality Tourism Accreditation
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Sustainable Tourism Accreditation by ATIC
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Conference Rooms and Accommodation Rooms
Rutherford Park Country Retreat offers multiple conference/meeting rooms of varying sizes. Their two main conference rooms feature central hydronic heating, evaporative cooling, stage and adjacent public toilets, plus data projector, screen and associated AV equipment.
Their accommodation rooms range in capacity from single share through to multiple share accommodation. Each room has its own ensuite bathroom and central hydronic heating.
Actively welcomes people with access needs.
General access
- Offers multiple options for booking – web, email, phone is available.
- Asks all visitors if there are any specific needs to be met.
- Advise tour guides of the access needs of guests at the time of booking (includes pick up and drop off requirements)
- Assistance with booking arrangements (includes providing clear itineraries with written instructions on what to do at various destinations)
Communication
Welcomes and assists people who have challenges with learning, communication, understanding and behaviour. (includes people with autism, intellectual disability, Down syndrome, acquired brain injury (ABI), dyslexia and dementia)
- Uses Plain English / easy read signage and information (includes menus and emergency information)
- A quiet space is available at the venue/ facility.
Physical – Mobility
Caters for people with sufficient mobility to climb a few steps but who would benefit from fixtures to aid balance. (This includes people using walking frames and mobility aids)
- Uses floors/coverings which are slip resistant, firm and smooth
- Uses non-slip tiles in the bathroom or slip resistant matting
- Grab rails in the bathroom
- Seating in common areas including reception area
Physical – High support needs
Caters for people with high support needs who travel with a support person.
- Twin beds available on request.
- Rooms which are interconnecting.
- A place to store medical equipment (eg oxygen).
Allergies and intolerances
Caters for people with allergies and intolerances.
- Modify their cooking and cleaning practices to cater for people with food allergies or chemical intolerances (could include menus with meals free from: nuts, dairy, seafood, eggs, gluten etc).
- Staff are trained to respond to allergic reactions.
- Complies with The Food Authority requirements for allergy management in food preparation.
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