Corporate Teambuilding
Bring your group together with us.
Step out of the office and into nature.
Set within our ancient Wealden woodland in Hellingly — and available at venues across the South East — Wild Weald offers immersive team experiences that reconnect people with traditional skills, shared creativity and purposeful collaboration. These are sessions that slow the pace, sharpen focus and bring colleagues together through practical, hands‑on experiences.
Your team will create, build and share. From shaping clay in Wild Pottery to managing a charcoal burn, from crafting bread over open flames to exploring the living science of fermentation and cheesemaking, every activity draws on authentic woodland practices once used by communities across Sussex.
Designed for corporate groups, our formats blend shared challenges with quiet achievements and moments of genuine connection. They encourage communication, problem‑solving and a welcome reset through working with natural materials and heritage techniques.
Whether you’re looking to reward your team, spark creativity, strengthen bonds, or assist wellbeing, our experiences offer something memorable, meaningful and refreshingly different — in the woods or at a venue that suits your event.
The Service
Each event is structured and hosted by Francis and Pam Gimblett, drawing on 26 years of experience at Taste of the Vine. Many sessions are co‑hosted with Wealden artisans who bring specialist skills they are keen to pass on.
We provide everything needed for your day, including on‑site catering from our own kitchen, with dishes made from farm‑grown and locally sourced produce. If you’re not joining us in the woodland, we can help secure a suitable venue across the South East and arrange trusted accommodation options.
Every event is fully curated to your team’s aims — from the format to the flow of the day — ensuring a thoughtful, well‑supported experience from start to finish.
"The team at Lawson Queay joined Francis and Pam for a Company Away Day, swapping our PCs for the Wild Weald.
We thoroughly enjoyed a morning of making clay pots, followed by the most delicious of lunch using locally sourced and home grown produce. After Pam's superb lunch, we tackled mozzarella and flatbread making.
Each and every one of us came away with a new skill. We look forward to returning and trying some of the other activities offered at Wild Weald."
Jackie Hazelden, Lawson Queay
As well as our woodland venue, we work at a small selection of trusted local venues — including boutique hotels, heritage sites and private estates — ensuring bespoke accommodation shaped around your event.
We can also stage Wild Weald activities at other venues across the South East. Please enquire for what we can do at your chosen venue.
See our Locations page for ideas, and get in touch with Francis to discuss suitability for your location.
Event Locations and Accommodation
Events to suit your objectives
Build your perfect woodland half day or day — choose different activites, each delivered in the style that best suits your team.
Whether your organisation is looking to sharpen strategy, strengthen communication, deepen social connection or offer your people a restorative reset, our 85 acres of ancient Sussex woodland provide the space and inspiration you need to do it well.
Most of these activities can be run within the grounds of any venue. Please enquire with Francis for suitability for your location.
Every event type below can be run in one of three modes:
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Strategic — focused on problem‑solving, leadership, collaboration and decision‑making
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Communicative — focused on connection, listening, teamwork and shared creativity
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Restorative — focused on wellbeing, nature immersion and mental reset
The Event Types
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Want to Mix and Match?
The WealdCraft Challenge - half day or day
The WealdCraft Challenge is our signature team experience: a fast‑paced, strategy‑led woodland adventure where teams select 3-6 micro-activities from a menu of ancient crafts and wild food skills.
You can select a range of these options for your experience, or mix and match with The WealdBeing Experience options below.
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wild pottery - from floor to fired
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willow sculpture - foraged to formed
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ancient cheesemaking
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charcoal making
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Celtic breadmaking
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green wood skills
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woodland tastings - alcoholic - wild ciders, ales, wild wine
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woodland tastings - non-alcoholic - shrubs, cordials, bitters
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wild cocktails - alcoholic and non-alcoholic
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wild fermentation - cider making, kimchi, vinegar making, shrub making
Designed to get teams communicating, problem‑solving and working together, the Challenge blends creativity with collaboration as groups race to complete tasks, earn points and master skills drawn from the deep heritage of the Weald.
It’s immersive, energising and unforgettable — a shared pursuit that brings people together in the heart of the Sussex woodland.
The WealdBeing Experience - half day or day
The WealdBeing Experience comprises a range a restorative woodland pursuits designed to help teams slow down, reconnect and return to work with clarity and calm.
You can select a range of these options for your experience, or mix and match with The WealdCraft Challenge activites.
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mindful walking
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gentle foraging
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wild food preparation
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wild fermentation
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storytelling
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woodland choir
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woodland bathing
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meditation
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qigong
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sound baths.
Curate your own programme from these practices, creating a full‑day or half day journey that supports wellbeing, presence and genuine human connection.
The WealdBeing Experience offers a rare pause from the pace of modern work — a chance for teams to breathe, reset and rediscover a sense of balance together beneath the trees.