Team Building

Experience the magic of Barretstown!

Outside of our camp programme, Barretstown – with its mix of modern and historic facilities – can provide the perfect venue for your corporate event. Be it a conference, team building day, company meeting or treat for your hard working team, Barretstown can deliver the ideal balance of facilities and activities to meet your requirements.

Whatever mix of facilities and activities you need, no matter how big or small, we can help. Fill in your details here and put “site hire” in the comments box and we will send you a brochure or email fundraising@barretstown.org and a member of our team will answer your query. Please include your phone number if you wish to talk to someone in person.

Facilities

At the heart of Barretstown is our medieval, romantic castle with inspiring conference rooms, it is steeped in history and offers several bedrooms. In our courtyard, we have several meeting rooms and a theatre with full AV facilities.

We have just recently added a new, purpose-built accommodation block (Paul’s Hideout).

We also have a modern, multi-purpose activity centre (Jim’s Place – The Serious Fun Building) with a fully equipped board room and 600 m² hall, perfect for indoor team building activities.

With a 200 seater dining hall, we can also provide a catering service if required.

• Medieval castle with meeting rooms, steeped in history
• Theatre and hall for conferences with AV equipment and Wi-Fi
• Indoor and outdoor activities, e.g. high ropes, canoeing, fishing and archery
• Staff trained to deliver professional team building activities, fun games and fitness programmes
• Catering service
• Individual and shared accommodation
• Beautiful grounds for relaxing including walled garden and bluebell wood

Professional Team Building – Discover the hidden energies of your team

Team building activities can revitalise employees, improve working relationships and increase motivation. The Barretstown staff are trained to deliver inspiring team building activities and games which most importantly, are fun for all. Your employees will build up deeper bonds by discovering more about each other.

Your group will get to experience our programme from a camper’s perspective, safely facilitated by our trained staff that have direct experience of working with children and adults at our camps. Your team will experience fun and laughter whilst working on problem solving, communication and leadership skills. Some of our popular team building activities include:

• Half pipe challenge | Spiders Web | Sheep and Shepherd
• Egg drop | Sheet volley ball | Evolution
• Knot or not | Blindfolded hike…and many many more!

Our theme for our conference was “Energy for performance” and Barretstown certainly ensured everyone was energised. From the moment the conference started, with a simple ice breaker game, everyone knew this was going to be a different type of conference. Making use of all that Barretstown had to offer, everyone was catered for during activity time. Mitch’s team ensured no one was pushed out of their comfort zone but at the same time we had a number of people conquer their fears by climbing the high ropes or zip lining across the lake – having their colleagues cheer them on throughout was brilliant to be a part of. I believe the success of our most engaging conference was involving the Barretstown team as much as possible and for that we owe them a huge thank you! Emma Fay,  GlaxoSmithKline

Barretstown Activities

Along with beautiful grounds including a wood and walled garden, perfect for relaxing, we also offer a range of activities suitable for team building.

• Horse riding
• Archery
• Arts and crafts room
• High ropes course / Zipline
• Tree Climb
• Canoeing
• Fishing
• Drama / Music
• Orienteering
• Fitness – fully equipped programmes available with qualified instructors who have a wide range of experience in a variety of sports and will ensure that there is something for everyone in each session regardless of their fitness level.

Put your money to good use

Holding your event at Barretstown will help us continue the vital service we provide to children with serious illness and their families. Learn more about our programmes here.