Corporate Retreats & Team Gatherings | Drovers Rest, Herefordshire
Exclusive Corporate Retreats for Mid-Week Stays
Leave the city behind and give your team the space to go further
Drovers Rest offers exclusive-use corporate retreats designed around one- and two-night mid-week stays — because real progress rarely happens in a single day.
Set on a 40-acre Herefordshire farm, our award-winning venue creates the conditions teams need to think more openly, connect more honestly, and move beyond what’s possible in the office. Whether you’re hosting a leadership retreat, a strategy reset, or a creative planning session, staying together allows ideas to develop, conversations to deepen, and momentum to build.
With luxury accommodation, fire-cooked food, and flexible indoor–outdoor spaces, Drovers Rest combines comfort, nature, and intention — helping teams leave feeling aligned, valued, and genuinely invested in the organisation that brought them together.
Crafted by People Who Understand Teams
Our retreats are shaped by people who’ve led teams, built businesses, and worked globally — not by generic corporate programmes. That experience informs everything we do, from how days are structured to how much space is left for thinking, conversation, and rest.
Being immersed in nature here isn’t decorative — it’s functional. The farm creates a pace and perspective that allows teams to reset, reconnect, and work differently together. Qualities like resilience, creativity, collaboration, and motivation emerge naturally when people are given time, trust, and the right environment.
This isn’t just a setting.
It’s a working landscape that helps teams rediscover shared purpose and move forward with clarity.
Rooted in Sustainability, Lived Every Day
Sustainability at Drovers Rest isn’t a statement — it’s how the farm works. From regenerative land management and rewilding to careful energy use, waste reduction, and recycling, everything here is shaped by long-term thinking and responsibility.
Being immersed in this environment gives teams a tangible sense of what considered, values-led choices look like in practice. The landscape itself becomes part of the experience, offering perspective, grounding, and a reminder that good systems — whether in nature or in organisations — are built with care and intention.
Teams can engage with this ethos in practical, memorable ways, including:
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Sheep herding and hands-on farm experiences
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Campfire gatherings and shared storytelling
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Orienteering, foraging, and time spent in nature
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Canoeing and water-based exploration
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Bespoke challenges shaped around your group and goals
These aren’t activities for activity’s sake. They’re designed to encourage collaboration, awareness, and shared experience — leaving teams with a deeper connection to each other and the environment they’ve stepped into.
Exclusive-Use without Compromise
When you book Drovers Rest, the farm is entirely yours. No shared spaces, no interruptions — just a private environment where your team can fully settle in and focus on being together.
From woodlands and open fields to cottages, glamping tents, and gathering spaces, the whole estate becomes part of your retreat. This freedom allows days to unfold naturally — strategy sessions by the fire bowl, conversations that continue long after the formal agenda ends, and celebrations that feel genuinely earned.
Exclusive use creates something simple but powerful: ease. Teams relax more quickly, engage more openly, and make the space their own. The result is a retreat that feels considered, personal, and shaped around what your people need most.
Luxurious, Immersive Accommodation
Staying at Drovers Rest is part of the experience, not an add-on. Teams can choose from a range of accommodation — from simple nights close to nature, to cosy safari glamping tents and charming country cottages — allowing each retreat to be shaped around comfort, connection, and purpose.
Gatherings unfold across the farm, from rustic barns to the open courtyard, often centred around the fire bowl — where conversations replace presentations and the fire itself becomes the focal point. Evenings slow naturally, ideas continue to surface, and teams have the time and space to settle into being together.
It’s accommodation designed to support presence, continuity, and depth — helping teams arrive, stay, and leave feeling genuinely invested in.
Field-to-Fire Culinary Experiences
Food at Drovers Rest is central to how teams connect. Every meal is cooked over open flames by our in-house chefs, using ingredients grown on the farm, foraged in the hedgerows or sourced locally where possible.
From unhurried breakfasts to long, celebration-led feasts, eating together here becomes part of the work — slowing the pace, encouraging conversation, and creating moments that teams genuinely remember. Shared meals around the fire have a way of breaking down hierarchy and bringing people together in a way no formal setting ever could.
It’s food with meaning — cooked over fire, shared slowly, and remembered long after.
Unlock Your Team's Potential
Our mid-week stays provide the perfect opportunity to step away from the office, reconnect, and revitalise. With curated outdoor activities, luxurious accommodations, and a focus on eco-conscious living, this is more than a corporate retreat – it’s a reset for your team, your strategy, and your success. So if you’re looking to get your team away from their desks for a collective breath of fresh air, this is the spot for you. A few days in flawless natural landscapes will blow all those cobwebs away.
This is for a two-night mid-week stay, with catering packages and team-building experience options available. Enquire now for availability and to start planning your exclusive retreat. Let us craft a bespoke experience tailored to your team’s goals.
