Corporate Retreats
OUR PREMIUM AND CREATIVE CORPORATE RETREAT VENUE
Set in 3 acres of grounds, we are your own 5-star exclusive-hire Tudor Manor House in the countryside.
Accommodating up to 40 guests for Manor House based events; we have up to 10 bedrooms in the Manor and as many as you need at the country club. Our Land Rovers buzz back and forth to the country club on demand to ensure a special and fully joined-up event.
Hill House is a super relaxed place and at the same time has a real attention to detail, with an atmosphere perfect to help you do your best work and bring everyone together in this unique environment. The house comes fully staffed, including your own private chef, event manager and driver. We have a dedicated AV system, including a 3m drop-down screen to plug into and we have a wide selection of unique team activities available for you.
Each year we also offer a handful of field based offsites in our 3 acre field for those looking for a big production, festival-style feel. With the option of glamping and/ or bedrooms at the country club, there’s the right accommodation available for everyone.
Your team will get away from it all at Hill House, and still benefit from being only 90 minutes from Liverpool Street station. And to make it super-easy for you we have our Land Rover Defenders/ mini-buses waiting for your arrival at the station.
All of which makes Hill House a place that’s harder to leave than to get to! Don’t just take our word for it, see what some of our clients have got to say…
“We all had an amazing time, you looked after us so well. The food was incredible, we loved the house, the Bomb Squad adventure was a blast (no pun intended! lol) & everyone had a fantastic time.
In fact the most frequently asked question to me these last couple of days was - How did you find this place???”
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WITH SPECIAL THANKS TO nike
“We would like to extend our huge thanks to you and all your wider team for making our week at Hill House so special. The team all provided very positive feedback on the whole experience. The food and the great team of staff were called out especially for being so good. Everyone enjoyed new experiences like ‘Master Chef: Farmyard Edition’ and the general good vibe at Hill House throughout.
The fact that our leadership team would like to book with your company again says a lot.”
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“We thoroughly enjoyed every moment of our team away trip with Elsewhere. Hill House was the perfect location for a summer getaway, the staff were all extremely friendly and accommodating, and we were spoilt for choice of activities with the tennis courts, the croquet lawn, and the games room! The catering was to a very high standard, and we particularly enjoyed the luxury BBQ and pizza making!
The highlight of the trip would undoubtedly be the bomb deactivation exercise – it was innovative and engaging and proved to be a real bonding experience for all of the team (even if some of us came out with a couple of scratches!). Two months later we are still talking about how much fun we had – a big thanks from us all at Deloitte to the Elsewhere team for making our trip an unforgettable experience.”
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“Thank you for the wonderful adventures – it was such great fun! We also really enjoyed the art tour around the house, it was a great value add!”
Available Team Activities
MASTER CHeF: FARMYARD EDITION
Make your own omelette. Sounds easy? Think again. Our Executive Chef Theo Michaels made the semi-finals of MasterChef in 2014 and he will be the lead facilitator of this big team building event. Teams have to work in their groups to locate all of the ingredients and complete tasks including milking the cow, butter making, egg collecting, tractor driving, potato digging, goat yoga, salsa and flatbread making. Teams then use their ingredients to cook and serve their creations followed by judging and prize giving.
Survive Norfolk!
A video plays to your team showing a freak incoming storm. We need to prepare you and rescue the Elsewhere team that got caught in the storm. We break your group into teams that under-go a series of tasks in order to plan and prepare for the worst – and to ultimately locate the Elsewhere team and rescue them. Teams are given a rucksack including vital equipment, including a CB radio. Required tasks include Land Rover training and pulling a tree, lighting a fire (with no matches), gutting a fish and preparing and cooking a meal, building a shelter and making a rescue flag out of bed sheets. The team that then gets to the water and saves the stranded party (and scored the highest) are today’s winners.
MURDER AT HILL HOUSE
There’s a gun shot that rattles around the house, a bit of screaming and everyone discovers one of the Hill House team lying in a pool of blood. There’s been a murder. We break you into teams, put you into crime scene overalls and brief you on the task at hand. Each team has to figure out the who, how and why. There’s lots of evidence to find, including newspapers, hidden rooms, fingerprints, CCTV footage, UV analysis, secret hideaways, the strange neighbour, websites and family trees. We even teach you how to lift and analyse fingerprints using real forensic equipment. It’s like your own mousetrap, just for your team and only available at Hill House.
Bomb Squad
Defuse a major WW2 bomb plot. Starting with the overnight email to all Norfolk evacuees heading up by train and the original air raid siren that kick-starts the activity - your teams will be running around the countryside cracking codes and defusing bombs. We also recruited one of your team to be our insider and once you discover who it is, they may be of use in finding the final bomb and the pop-up gin bar. Winston Churchill’s favourite gin will be served in tin mugs over prize giving.
SPACED OUT
Enjoy an afternoon exploring in teams of 6 to save our little rock in space (we call Hill House)…. from an imminent food crisis, ending in dinner from The Quantum Food Accelerator. Teams are tasked with generating STAR$, with instructions from a bespoke video book that plays on opening. They need to learn Dentrassi and set to work on the Dentrassi work logs. There’s 20 stations to find including - Vehicle Manoeuvers in the Dark, Find the Secret Cocktail Bar and make Pangalactic Gargleblasters, Intergalactic Balloon Archery, Astronaut DJ Session, Space-Pancakes with Theo and much much more. The winning team win champagne in bespoke art boxes and claim this year’s Pan-Galactic Prize for Extreme Cleverness.
MASTER CHeF: NORFOLK FEAST EDITION
Under the guidance of Elsewhere Executive Chef, Theo Michaels, your team will create your own Norfolk Feast. You will break into smaller groups to focus on pre-dinner cocktail making, starters, mains, side dishes, desserts and dressing the room. Your teams have free-rein of the Hill House kitchen including AGA and then come together to eat at the grand table in the 16thC Manor. It’s like a big family dinner.
SPRAY CANS AT DAWN
Inspired with a quick tour of the street art installations at Hill House, we’ll provide loads of spray cans, overalls and stencils along with some handy hints and tips. You bring the attitude and the artistic talent. In your groups you’ve got to create the most convincing forgery of a famous piece of street art. And then using your new found skills, create something truly unique followed by a flag that represents something meaningful to you. Teams pitch us on why their’s is today’s winner and original pieces of artwork are given as prizes. Everyone loves messing around with spray paint. Here’s your chance to learn some insider knowledge and have a pop at copying the real deal.
CLASSIC SPORTS DAY
Sometimes you just want a good old fashioned sports day. With Summertime favourites including tug of war, sack race, egg and spoon and bean bag tossing. There’s a scorer with megaphone, a winners podium and 10ft scoreboard to create the right atmosphere. Add into the mix an ice cream truck or Pimm’s tent and you’re good to go. And if you fancy an afternoon tea from our vintage china (with gorgeous and locally produced triple decker cream cakes) that’s no problem either.
“We had a company offsite at Hill House and it was excellent.
Here are some of my special mentions of our time with the Elsewhere team:
1. Before the offsite they had one single point of contact who helped with all aspects of planning. Tara was the manager assigned to us and she was amazing. Super responsive (even if I sent 3 different emails with different questions she would respond to all with the same enthusiasm). We were in touch via email and WhatsApp until we arrived. This meant that everything we planned went off without a hitch as there was only point of contact.
2. The house itself is really beautiful - located in lovely green surroundings with plenty for the team to do both indoors & outdoors. From tennis to karaoke machines, we were covered. There’s also a lot of common “hang out” spaces so people didn’t have to retreat to their rooms if there was nothing going on if they didn’t want to. The team also planned a “murder mystery” for us that the team really enjoyed.
3. The catering staff have to be my favourite part - they were SO kind. Even when our “make your own pizza night” got ruined from the rain they didn’t grumble once and found ways to make it work. They are also the only people in my experience so far who gave equal importance to those who have dietary requirements to those who don’t, with clear labels & plenty of options. The food also was delicious and plentiful.
4. The transport was also super smooth - no waiting time at the train station and we were dropped off right on time to make our train back.
All in all great offsite experience for the team - and a godsend for the organisers like me!”
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