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Team with Nature day

Resilient, kind and authentic relationships form the foundations of our organisations.

A Team With Nature day is an opportunity to step away from the pressure and distractions of day-to-day work and gently invest in building deeper trust, respect and understanding of each other, with the help of nature and an expert facilitator.

This isn’t your typical corporate team building day of competitive sport, Team With Nature blends our facilitator’s deep experience in psychological safety and team dynamics with the wellbeing benefits of a day in the countryside.

All within a short journey train ride from London - low carbon, biodiversity friendly, inclusive.

We have carefully chosen a beautiful location - a private field, nestled in the shelter of the south end of Bedfordshire’s Greensand Ridge.

Dates are now live!

Location

We have carefully chosen a beautiful location - a private field, nestled in the shelter of the south end of Bedfordshire’s Greensand Ridge:

Bragenham Farm, near Leighton Buzzard, LU7 0EF

30/40 min train from London Euston to Leighton Buzzard, 10 min taxi.

From the Midlands or North West, train to Milton Keynes, 15 min taxi.

We’ll give you all the info you’ll need nearer the time to get there comfortably.

You’ll walk past the chickens, down a track and through a field to find ‘Team Camp’ in the Reed field, where everything is set up for your day of cooking over the fire, chatting and relaxing. Enjoy the breeze blowing across the meadow and the sound of birdsong in the hedgerows.

Want to stay? The farm have a range of unique glamping or camping options which you can book direct with them.

Pick a date

  • Mon 12 May - booked

  • Wed 14 May - available

  • Fri 16 May - available

  • Mon 19 May - available

  • Wed 21 May - reserved

  • Fri 23 May - available

  • Mon 9 June  - available

  • Wed 11 June  - available

  • Fri 13 June  - available

  • Mon 16 June  - reserved

  • Wed 18 June  - available

  • Fri 20 June - available

  • Tues 1 July  - available

  • Wed 2 July  - available

  • Fri 4 July - available

  • Mon 7 July  - available

  • Wed 9 July  - available

  • Fri 11 July  - available

Pick a package.

  • Team with Nature day

    For a team, a group of colleagues, an alumni or community group

    £150 per person, minimum of 5 people, max 10.

    £300 deposit

    Outline of the day:

    - Connecting and listening - to each other and to nature - sessions involving both sitting and walking

    - Making a fire and cooking lunch on it, working together as a team

    - Feasting and resting

    - Clearing up lunch and Reflecting - resetting camp, what we take away from the day,

    Included: ‘Team Camp’ for the day: Food, fire, firewood, camp chair, equipment, shelter from rain or hot sun, toilets, set in a private field of a farm surrounded by nature

    Facilitation by Becky: Listening and reflection sessions at either end of the day, Fire lighting and Cooking guidance, if needed, First aid trained

    Also included in the price: donation for, and info about, local biodiversity regeneration eg rewilding in the area

    Not included: transport, accommodation, sun cream

    Attendees agree to be respectful of the land (wildlife, crops, cattle), the cooking, the fire and washing up, as well as themselves, and each other.

  • Deep investment in one team

    For your team or a team under your leadership

    A Team with Nature day - tailored to your team’s needs

    + 3 hrs Team/Leader coaching

    £2,500, for up to 10 people

    £500 deposit

    Benefits: improved team relationships: trust, communication, reduced friction, as well as feeling that their wellbeing has been kindly and thoughtfully invested in.

    Would particularly suit gender and neuro-diverse teams eg team members who may not be interested in an old style competitive sport away day or find indoor spaces give them sensory overload.

    Cultural diversity is also given space for expression - and with the Deep Investment package can be tailored to fit through choice of food to be cooked on the fire - you choose what to cook: we’ll bring the heavy stuff, you bring the special ingredient.

    Becky, our experienced facilitator will get to know your team, give them a wonderful day bonding in nature, and keep the work going over the following months with coaching for the leader or whole team via 3 × 1hr coaching sessions.

  • Non Profits

    Discounted rates are available for Team with Nature days on Mondays and Wednesdays for:

    Public Sector - 25% off - £113 per person

    Charity / community group - 45% off - £83 per person

    For a discount on the Deep Investment package please get in touch.

    Becky has broad experience as a facilitator in central and local government, charity, NGO, UN and cross-sector groups - both internal and as a consultant.

How to book

Pick a date and package - email: book@sandkind,uk - your date will be reserved

We’ll send payment options: invoice, bank transfer, debit/credit card payment (Stripe/Wise).

Pay deposit - your date will be booked

Rhythm of the day

Our priority is to create a safe space for you to be with your team, enjoying nature. Becky is adept at quickly putting people at ease. With you, she will intentionally build a foundation of psychological safety. From there, the day will weave between three themes:

  • The heart of the day is cooking a meal for each other on a fire. Vegan, vegetarian or meat-based, one hearty meal cooked for all to share. There’ll be dessert too which may be campfire cooked! We’ll bring all the food, we just ask you to all share in the washing and clearing away.

  • We would love to offer this space for you to put some time into listening and respecting each other’s stories.

    This might be the time to say something you’ve always wanted to say. But we also respect if that’s not what you want out of the day.

    Becky is your flexible facilitator who can figure this out in advance with you and is experienced in adjusting to the needs of the group on the day.

  • Above all, this day is about nourishing yourselves. There’ll be time to just be, wander and wonder, sit in the calmness of this beautiful field - trees, birds, butterflies and ladybirds.

FAQs

  • Yes - if you need to split this between quarterly / annual budgets and/ or between team / individual budgets we can accept split payments.

    As long as you’ve paid a deposit of £300 (even in split payments) and the balance by 2 months before the date then we don’t mind how the payments are split.

    After you’ve reserved your date, we can figure out a payment schedule and payment methods by email, we can even set up calendar reminders if that helps.

  • We can raise an invoice for you for your company to pay within 30 days.

    You can pay by debit / credit card via Stripe.

    You can pay via bank transfer.

    If you have a Wise account you can pay direct from Wise to Wise - we’ll send a QR code / quick pay link.

  • If you’re bringing a team then, yes, I’d love to co-facilitate with you. Let’s chat.

    If you’d like to co-facilitate to get experience and maybe set up a similar business in your area, awesome! I’m planning to run Facilitator & Founder training in Summer 2025. Please get in touch.

  • Yes - whatever your concern whether accessibility and/or safety, we have got your back.

    Accessibility - From the farm car park to the field there’s a walk of about 200 metres on moderately uneven ground but no steps or steep slopes. At the station there are lifts. More details on request.

    Safety - I’m particularly keen to ensure that everyone has a micro-aggression-free day - so whether you’re trans and you’re worried about the taxi driver or you’re a fairly recent immigrant and you’re worried about leaving the city - know that there will be a Welcome Pack coming at least 2 months before your Team with Nature day with all what we’re doing to ease your path. And if that doesn’t set you at ease then we’re available to answer any questions: becky@sandkind.uk

  • Up by the farm house (2 fields away) there is a block of flush toilets up steps with a sink and nice soap.

    At ‘Team Camp’, we’ll have our very own compost toilet in a very fashionable wooden glamping toilet pod. A compost toilet is one where instead of using water to flush away faecal matter to a sewage plant, it’s contained with a specially designed toilet with dry matter such as sawdust and you cover up with a bit more, then it gets taken away daily to ‘compost’ into fertiliser. Saving a lot of water!

    This one will also have nice soap.

  • No, we’ve built a good relationship with the farm and we know they’re busy, please contact us in the first instance about any queries relating to your time on the farm for your Team with Nature day.

    However, for booking glamping or camping, the night before/after, then, yes, go ahead do that directly. https://www.bragenhamfarm.co.uk/

  • If the weather looks very wet, we’ll cancel. See our cancellation policy.

    But for most weathers - and it will be late Spring or early Summer - so unlikely to be too bad - we’ll be there.

    The tents will provide warm, dry cover in a drizzle. On a hot day, the sides roll up to create a good shade that let’s the breeze float through.

    But it is outdoors, so please dress appropriately - and bring layers, a hat, suncream, etc.

  • The photos in the location section are genuinely of Bragenham farm. The chickens photo I took in September on a foraging course there. The one behind the chickens is a photo of the Reed field where Team Camp will be situated but the photo was taken in Autumn - just imagine how it’ll look in late Spring /early Summer - more like the meadow photo above (from Unsplash)

    Photo at the top is Ivinghoe Beacon on the edge of the Chiltern Hills nearby which you’ll see to the right of train if you’re travelling that way up from London.

    On the home page

    the ‘out standing in a field’ photo is the view from a friend’s back garden about a mile or 2 from the farm, nearer to Woburn estate

    the picture of bark is a gum tree photo I took in St Kilda Australia in 2015 visiting family after we got married.

    my face is by me

    All the other photos are free stock photos courtesy of Unsplash and the beautiful people who took them.

“I just want to check …”

Email becky@sandkind.uk

Or book a chat for any aspect needing more information. Happy to help.

Booked? Can’t wait?!

Get talking about this with your team…

  • How do they feel about a day away from it all, in nature, being together?

  • What other ideas does this spark?

  • Why not try your next 1:1 as a walk n’ talk in your near by green space? Even if you’ve gone ‘into the office’ for the day, doesn’t mean you have to stay there!

Happy relating!