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Team away days at Knepp
Rewild your team
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.
Your host for the day will be one of Knepp’s in-house team. They have their own areas of expertise such as biodiversity, rewilding ecology or natural capital.
The Day
Welcome
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.
Safari
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.
Lunch
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.
Alternatively upgrade to the Knepp Feast Sharing Menu, three courses crafted by the chefs on the day from our seasonal menu – served in the Knepp Wilding Kitchen.
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 and hear the cooing of turtle doves. Above you, white storks circle in the skies or swoop onto their nests. 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.
The Venue
Nestled in a peaceful, inspiring setting near the Wilding Kitchen, our Gathering barn is the perfect space for Team Away Days. With its open, flexible layout and rustic charm, it provides a calm, focused environment where ideas can flourish.
You are welcome to make use of the projector and TV screen, wood-burning stove and tea and coffee facilities.
Information
The Gathering, Knepp Wilding Kitchen, Worthing Road, Dial Post, RH13 8NQ.
Accessible by car and train (nearest station – Horsham Train station, then a 20-minute taxi).
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
Tea & coffee
Fast Wi-Fi
Television display
Welcome talk
Guided safari
Lunch
Vehicle safari
Upgrade to lunch in Knepp Wilding Kitchen restaurant
Afternoon volunteering activity
Lunch
Enjoy a Grazing Platter, or… upgrade to the Knepp Feast Sharing Menu
Grazing Platter
You will be treated to a delicious Grazing Platter 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.
Example Meat Platter – Knepp Longhorn beef, fresh bread, butter, pickles, slaw, potato salad, Market Garden leaves.
Example Vegetarian Platter – Market Garden frittata, fresh bread, butter, pickles, slaw, potato salad, Market Garden leaves.
Knepp Feast Sharing Menu
The three course Knepp Feast is crafted by the chefs on the day from our seasonal menu – served in the Knepp Wilding Kitchen.
Designed for sharing, to showcase the very best of Knepp produce, each dish is crafted to highlight the quality and character of our ingredients, making the feast a true celebration of Knepp’s produce and culinary offering.
No pre-orders required – simply inform us of any dietary needs or allergens, and we’ll ensure everyone is well catered for.
