Northumberland distillery continues “unique” recruitment drive ahead of 2023 opening

Ad Gefrin, the new Northumbrian Anglo-Saxon Museum and Whisky Distillery nearing completion in Wooler, is coming to the end of a “unique” recruitment quest to find upwards of 50 members of staff who will help bring the project to life when its doors open in 2023.

After almost four years in the making, the successful team will begin the next stage of Ad Gefrin’s journey, opening its doors to provide a “unique” visitor experience and the “very warmest of Northumbrian welcomes”.

The immersive heritage experience, distillery tours and tastings, shopping, and bistro that Ad Gefrin will offer have created a “diverse” range of job opportunities in visitor engagement and guiding, catering, retailing, maintenance and groundskeeping.

Today the company is urging anyone who is interested in working as a member of the Ad Gefrin ‘family’ who has not already done so, to apply before applications finally close on January 8 2023.

Director of experience, Chris Ferguson, commented: “Ad Gefrin was born out of my family’s passion to celebrate the Anglo-Saxon history of this area, and the art of making a whisky that embodies it.

“In every role we’re offering here we’re looking for people who share that passion and who can create an extraordinary experience for our visitors. When we find them, we’ll provide our successful applicants with a comprehensive training programme to enable them to fulfil their potential as a fully-fledged member of the Ad Gefrin family.”

Named after the royal Anglo Saxon palace excavated at Yeavering, just a mile from Wooler, the Ad Gefrin Museum and Distillery will “write an exciting new chapter” in the history of the town and its community. In an area that offers limited new job opportunities, Chris Ferguson urges local people to become involved in this venture.

He continued: “We hope that the local community will be as proud of what we are creating as they are of the history it is based on, and that many will be involved at the heart of what we do.

“No matter what role they play in the Ad Gefrin story, we want as many people from the community as possible to help us give visitors from all over the world a traditional Northumbrian welcome, just as they did over 1,400 years ago.”

By Matthew Neville – Correspondent, Bdaily

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