Corporate · Wyre Forest, Worcestershire

Forty private acres, and no other company on site

Away days, summer parties, product launches and company celebrations, with covered space for up to 300 and no other event on site. An hour from most of the Midlands and nothing like a conference suite.

Up to 300
Under cover
Exclusive
One event at a time
All year
Heated
Under an hour
From Birmingham
Why a wood

People behave differently outside a meeting room

Every company that has ever run an away day knows the problem: you book a hotel suite, everyone sits in the same rows they sit in at the office, and by half past two the room has quietly gone back to answering email.

Moving people outdoors changes the dynamic before anyone says a word. Conversations happen between the sessions rather than in them. People who never speak in a boardroom talk around a fire pit. That is not a soft benefit — it is generally the entire reason you left the office.

And unlike most outdoor venues, there is a heated, lit, floored structure here if the weather turns, so the plan does not collapse in October.

What it suits

The events that work here

Away days and offsites

Space to split into groups and come back together, indoors or out, without booking three separate rooms. Mains power throughout. Ask us about wifi and mobile coverage before you plan anything around being online.

Summer parties

The obvious one, and the one a wood does better than a tent in a car park. Street food, a bar, fire pits and enough acreage that three hundred people do not feel packed in.

Christmas parties

Sides down, heaters on, fires lit. A genuinely different December party from the hotel ballroom everyone has been to for nine years running.

Product launches and press days

Exclusive use means no other logo on site and no other event in the background of your photographs. The setting does a lot of work for a brand that wants to look anything other than corporate.

Team celebrations

Milestones, retirements, end of a big project. Long tables under canvas and fire pits afterwards, with parking inside the wood and room for a coach at the gate.

Filming and photography

Forty acres of managed woodland with vehicle access, power and a covered base. Day rates on request.

Practicalities

What is here before you arrive

The structure, the bar, the washrooms and the services are permanent. You are not building a site from nothing, which is what makes a one-day corporate booking viable at all.

CapacityUp to 300
Covered and heatedYes, all year
Exclusive useAlways
CateringYour caterer, or we can suggest
BarBuilt and plumbed
WashroomsPermanent and heated
Power and waterMains
Wifi and mobile signalAsk us
ParkingOn site
OvernightHotels in Bewdley and Kidderminster, a short drive
Day ratesOn enquiry
Budget

What to put in the business case

We publish our wedding prices in full and we are not going to be coy with you either. A corporate day is quoted against the same forty acres and the same permanent structure, so the shape of the number is the same: it moves with the day of the week, the month and the headcount. Midweek and November to March are materially cheaper than a summer Saturday.

Cheapest windowMidweek, November to March
Dearest windowSaturday, June to September
Corporate day rateOn enquiry
Minimum spend, if anyAsk us
Included in the hireStructure, bar, washrooms, power, water, parking
CateringYour caterer, or we will suggest — £15 to £100 a head
Purchase orders and invoice termsAsk us

Our published wedding tariff is the honest ceiling for what this site costs, and it is on the prices page. Nobody has to prise a number out of us to find out whether we are in range.

Before you take it to finance

The questions you will be asked internally

What happens if it rains?

Everything that matters is under a heated, floored, lit structure, and the call to move under cover is made in the morning rather than at the last minute. An outdoor plan here has an indoor plan built into it, which is the part most outdoor venues cannot say and the part your director will ask about first.

How do people get here and back?

Parking is inside the wood and there is room for a coach at the gate. For a company event a coach from the office or the nearest station is usually the cleanest answer: it fixes the timings, it gets everyone home, and it takes the drink-driving question off your desk entirely. Kidderminster is the nearest mainline station, about fifteen minutes away, with four trains an hour to Birmingham Snow Hill and Moor Street and two an hour to Worcester. Birmingham city centre is roughly fifty minutes by road and Worcester thirty-five. One thing worth passing on to people: Bewdley has a station of its own, but it is the Severn Valley heritage line and it will not get anybody here from Birmingham — tell them Kidderminster.

Is the site accessible?

Yes. The clearing, the structure, the bar and the washrooms are step-free and reachable on level chipped path. Tell us in advance who needs closer access and we will get vehicles nearer rather than making anyone walk it.

Can we hold a date while we get sign-off?

Ask us what it takes to hold a date — we would rather hold it properly than have you lose it while a purchase order works its way through.

Do you have public liability cover and risk assessments?

Cover, certificates and site risk assessments are available on request and your caterer and bar supplier will each need their own.

Is there wifi and mobile signal?

Ask us about coverage and on-site wifi. Worth asking early if any part of your day depends on being online.

Next step

Tell us the date and the headcount

We will come back within a working day with availability and a price. Site visits any day, by appointment.

Email usCheck your date