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Team away days at Knepp
Rewilding is all about letting go, allowing dynamic, natural processes to happen, and embracing the unexpected. It’s about recognising how change unlocks opportunities and triggers new energy. This is incredibly stimulating and relates to how we live our lives and conduct business.
On a Team Away Day at Knepp you’ll experience a reconnection with nature in one of Britain’s most daring nature experiments. Learn to think holistically and outside the box – like a rewilder – and build team spirit through the inspiring and hopeful lessons of trusting in nature.
You’ll be hosted by one of Knepp’s experts in our beautiful Gathering Barn, close to our Wilding Kitchen. Your day will start with a brief welcome talk about rewilding and how Knepp is delivering nature-based solutions to tackle climate change and pollution and restore wildlife. You’ll hear about the future of Knepp – 100-mile wildlife corridor, large-scale river recovery, and the potential for nature restoration unleashed by new funding streams from the public and private sectors.
Your team will then head out on a guided walking safari in search of free-roaming herds of longhorn cattle, Exmoor ponies, Tamworth pigs and red and fallow deer, the drivers of our rebounding ecosystem. As you weave through the rewilded scrub, your guide will help you identify different species and share insights into the ecology of your surroundings. You’ll connect with nature in a way that is scarcely possible in other regions of the UK.
The experience will differ depending on the time of year – in spring, our large herbivores have piglets, fawns, foals and calves at foot. In the summer you might see the rare purple emperor butterfly, hear the intoxicating song of the nightingale or the cooing of turtle doves. Above you, white storks circle in the skies or swoop onto their nests – the first storks to breed in the UK for 600 years. By autumn, when the deer rut begins, the landscape echoes with the bellowing of red stags and fallow bucks as they clash in titanic battles for mating right, and in winter, see how beaver activity holds back floodwater and creates magical wetland habitat.
You will be treated to a delicious No-Plough lunch from Knepp’s Wilding Kitchen, showcasing Knepp’s Wild Range charcuterie, rare roast beef, local cheeses, homemade bread and organic, seasonal salads and vegetables from our Market Garden.
Team Away Day Format
- 9.30am – welcome, tea and coffee
- 10.00am – rewilding introduction talk
- 10.45am – guided walking safari in the rewilding project (3 hours – you’ll need an adequate level of fitness and be able to cope with walking on uneven, potentially muddy ground)
- 1.45 – 2.45pm – Knepp’s signature ‘No Plough’ lunch
- 2.45 – 4.30pm – venue available for team use
Facilities
- Tea & coffee
- Fast Wi-Fi
- Television display
Optional Extras
- Vehicle safari
- Upgrade to lunch in Knepp Wilding Kitchen restaurant
- Afternoon volunteering activity
Team Away Days - Expression of Interest
For more information on Knepp’s corporate away days and team building packages please complete the form below. One of our team building activities team will contact you to discuss timings, logistics and cost for your perfect away day; team building in nature.