Corporate & private Events
Immersive retreats
Beyond the Boardroom. Into the Wild.
High-Performance Corporate Retreats & Culture Resets on a 100-Acre Rewilded Sanctuary.
Just over an hour from London, leave the echo chambers of city offices and Zoom calls behind. The Wilderness offers scaling businesses, executive boards, and forward-thinking teams absolute exclusivity, total privacy, and a landscape engineered for breakthrough thinking.
We don’t do sterile conference rooms. We provide a 100-acre ecosystem where strategic alignment, employee wellness, and creative problem-solving happen naturally.
In the last few years we have hosted a wellness retreat for Mr Porter, a two day festival for M&C Saatchi, a private 40th birthday party, a conference for Lloyds Bank and an immersive work away for Avant Arte and Phantom advertising agency.
WELLNESS ACTIVITIES
Why The Wilderness?
The Power of Absolute Exclusivity
When you book a retreat at The Wilderness, the estate is yours alone. No overlapping events, no public hotel guests, and no distractions.
Whether you are navigating a high-stakes merger, designing a five-year roadmap, or rebuilding team culture after a period of rapid growth, our absolute privacy creates a psychological “safe space.” Here, your team can speak candidly, think deeply, and collaborate without filters.
Our Experiential Tracks: Translating Nature into ROI
We blend state-of-the-art corporate hosting with immersive, nature-led experiences designed to regulate the nervous system, smash creative blocks, and build unbreakable team bonds.
🌿 Focus & Flow: Mindfulness & Mental Clarity
Break up intense, high-focus strategy sessions with sensory resets that clear cognitive fatigue.
Tai Chi on the Glade: Morning sessions led by expert practitioners to cultivate focus, physical alignment, and mental clarity before a heavy day of data.
Immersive Sound Baths: A deeply restorative acoustic experience designed to lower cortisol levels, alleviate burnout, and open the mind to creative problem-solving.
🌊 Challenge & Connect: Shared Vulnerability, Stronger Bonds
True team cohesion isn’t built over awkward icebreakers in a hotel basement. It happens when teams step outside their comfort zones together.
Wild Swimming & Paddle Boarding: Utilize our private, pristine lakes for a morning plunge or paddle boarding challenge. Perfect for sensory regulation, mental resilience, and shared breakthrough moments.
Synergistic Drum Circles: A powerful, high-energy exercise in collective rhythm and synchronicity. Drum circles dismantle corporate hierarchy instantly, getting cross-functional teams listening and working in perfect unison.
🦉 Ground & Grow: Active Rest & Interactive ESG
Give your team perspective by connecting them to a broader story of sustainability.
Guided Bird Watching & Nature Tracks: Quiet the mind and foster deep, lateral thinking with guided treks through our 30-year rewilding habitats.
Woodland Fire Feasts & Sustainability Talks: Gather around open flames in our ancient woodlands for bespoke, estate-sourced dining. Pair your meal with an interactive talk on our rewilding data—allowing your company to align its retreat directly with modern ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) values.
mILESTONE BIRTHDAY PARTIES
Wonder-filled, stylish & relaxed.
What we do
We make dreams come true. No really we do. We have a stellar team of talented people who thrive on hosting.
Rustic simplicity is what it’s all about if you choose to marry at the Naked Tipi. Handcrafted from Chestnut coppice, felled right here on the farm. This tranquil spot is right by the water, surrounded by wildlife & views across the Water Meadow.
The Woodland Glade is the place to relax, feast & party. Home to the Big Hat Tipi, fire pit, rustic tree house, Champagne Shack Bar, Wild Roots Pizza Shack & Chapel Bathrooms the Glade has a cozy village-like feel.
With meandering paths cut through the long wild grasses you are taken on a journey through nature, from the boathouse, past the naked tipi and on over the footbridge to the magical Woodland Glade in the ancient woodland.
Gather together, relax and have some fun! We have a range of fabulous quirky ways to serve your wedding day drinks including Aris, our vintage car bar, gold barrows, brimming with cold beers and Kilner jars of your favourite cocktail.
Our extensive selection of accredited caterers is second to none & they will work with you to create your perfect wedding day feast, using fresh, locally sourced seasonal ingredients wherever possible. Please have a look on our accredited caterers page.
As you cross the footbridge it’s like entering a different world, as you leave the vast views and big skies of the Water Meadow to the cosy sanctuary of the Woodland Glade…here you can capture the best golden hour photos.
Spend the night with your loved ones, sleeping under the stars in one of our 10 beautifully curated bell tents. Then wake up and enjoy a breakfast together as the sun rises over the Meadow. Hot showers, luxury bed linen & proper beds.
Sustainably built & always fully stocked, our Champagne Shack bar is nestled into the heart of the Woodland Glade, ready to serve your favourite tipple. We are proud to also stock a selection of delicious, locally produced beer, wine & apple juice.
Sunsets here are simply spectacular – with big skies and miles of open views, the Water Meadow is the perfect spot for your photographer to capture the most beautiful golden hour pictures. The photographers seem to agree!
Feel connected to the woodland, with one side of the tipi open during the day, as you dine at our rustic refectory tables. As night falls the space transforms for your party with a dance floor area & stage for your band or DJ to set up.
The Tipis in the Woodland Glade take on a whole new dimension at night with hundreds of twinkly lights- if you have newer partied in the woods before, prepare to be blown away. Don’t forget your dancing shoes.
Sunsets here are simply spectacular – with big skies and miles of open views, the Water Meadow is the perfect spot for your photographer to capture the most beautiful golden hour pictures.
The Woodland Glade comes alive at night time with hundreds of twinkly lights, the fire pit, Champagne Shack and the tree house.
We would love for your beloved dog to be part of your wedding...they are even welcome to stay with you at the Glampsite. But if a full day is too much for your furry friend, we can recommend doggy daycare providers who will chaperone.
We are a family run farm, with a long-term vision to restore nature. Having been part of a rewilding project for nearly 30 years, The Wilderness is now a sanctuary for flora & fauna, with wildflowers, dragonflies, butterflies, and may rare wild birds.
