Fire, Foraging and Feasting for New Business (invite only)

Days – founded by exited agency founder - creates the space and stimulus for reconnection. They are hosting an event especially for agency owners, directors and senior leaders to reconnect with their hunger for new opportunities and their innate skills of how to find them.

Wilder.Work creates long-term partnerships with large landed estates looking to take land out of intensive agricultural use and re-wild it to restore natural processes. The secret Wilder.Work site they'll take you to, with tents and a wild kitchen, is inaccessible to the public and privately owned since the 1600s. They connect people in inspiring natural places and on this occasion they have chosen the wonderful in Ashford.

The “Fire, Foraging and Feasting for New Business” day, gives you a chance to enjoy a safari-style off-site to reconnect you with your innate skills of identifying the right new business opportunities. Step out of your day-to-day and connect with other agency folk to learn the ancient skills of foraging in a rewilding landscape. Attune your observational skills and your natural sense of abundance whilst hanging out in beautiful large stretch tents and big hat teepees in a private woodland with a large rewilding meadow opposite.

Not only that, but you’ll be able to feast on your new-found skills – with a little help from Green Starred Michelin Chef, , who will create a 3-course lunch in an unforgettable wild location including delicious foraged foods.

After lunch, apply this refreshed way of thinking directly back into your business in a coach-led workshop that use natural stimulus to fire up a whole new way of thinking about your approach to landing new business. Leave with an increased sense of connection to opportunities for your business. Come away with peer tested business development ideation ready to land new opportunities for your business.

This event is invite-only, so if you haven’t received a direct invitation, please email Holly Tennock via [email protected] or Michael Murdoch via [email protected] today.

Spaces are limited as this event is purposely intimate, so be quick and secure your spot now.

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Host: Holly Tennock, 07966 280 542, [email protected], Founder of Wilder Work

Co-Host: Michael Murdoch (founder of The House )

Guest Experts: Shane Pearson (Wild Chef) and Michael White (Forager)

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Date: Wednesday 19th June 2024

Time: 10:30am to 5:00pm

Venue: Hatch Park Estate, Ashford

Address: Exact location to be advised upon booking - for security reasons we cannot pinpoint it publicly.

Map: To be shared upon booking.

Nearest Stations: Ashford International

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• 10:30am - Welcome drinks and light snacks - introduction to the area
• 10:30am - Session 1: Foraging across the landscape - guided by

• 12:30pm - Lunch Break: Hyper-local lunch prepared by Green Starred Michelin Chef
• 13:30pm - Session 2: Coach-led foraging for new business session - applying your new found skills of observation, abundance creation and resilience into your business

• 15:00pm - Session 3: Presentations and feedback from the group
• 16:00pm - Session 4: Foraged cocktail and canapes creation over fire
• 17:00pm - Head home with a packed tea - Venison Bao Bun or a vegetarian option for those who require
  

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Eating foraged foods in the place where they were foraged creates a sensual connection to the landscape. Many of the flavours and combinations at our Wilder Work days are unique to the week of the season and the specific location of the Wilder Work day in the North Downs of Kent. Beyond flavour, eating foraged food is incredible for the diversity in your gut microbiome with proven heart, circulatory and mental health impacts.

Green Starred Michelin Chef Shane Pearson - behind this delicious menu is also keen to inspire you to forage for a few ingredients when you’re home so he will be on hand to explain how to recreate much of the day’s food.

Starter:

• Hay Smoked Planked Trout with Elderflower Emulsion
• Pickled Candy Beetroot
• Chickweed Pesto
• Mallow and Hawthorn Petit Salad

Main Course:

• Tornado of Venison with Wild Garlic
• Wild Nettle Cake
• Salt Baked Carrot
• Spiced Venison Jus
• Wild Sorrel Oil

Sides for the Table:

• Crispy Jersey Royals with Burnt Hay Salt
• Foraged Salad

Dessert:

• Charcoal Meringue Eton Mess with Foraged Berries Infused Wild Lime Syrup
• Elderberry Cream

Snacks to Take Away in Bamboo:

• Sticky Venison Bao Bun with Wild Nam Jim

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Catering:

• Arrival drinks and snacks
• Lunch (3 x courses including foraged ingredients you’ve likely never tried before, sharing platters)
• Ingredients for foraged cocktail and canape
• Kombucha, water, teas and coffees
• Foraged wine and spirits tasting with alcohol free options available too

Dietary Requirements and Allergies:
Please share this information when booking your space via the online form and also make the venue staff aware on the day.

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No. of Guests Expected: 10-20 agency owners, directors and senior leaders (e.g. creative, video, animation, web, mobile, software, SEO, PR, PPC, branding, marketing, design etc.)

Price: from £300+vat (+ Eventbrite fees)

Included in the ticket price:

• Venue access
• Food & Drinks including 3 course hyper-local lunch
• Activities & Workshops including Foraging lesson
• Coaching and team feedback session on the topic of business development
• Cooking over fire to create cocktails and canapes lesson
• Expert guidance from our hosts, facilitators and speakers
• Equipment for the day outdoors

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Get a fresh perspective on the opportunities that surround you; a more natural sense of connectivity to yourself, your environment, what you eat, your peers and your role at work; feel present and grounded in your business as it is just in the present moment in awe inspiring surroundings; enjoy the delicious taste and nourishment of hyper-local wonderful food; feel good about how you’ve spent the day and given back to nature restoration in the south-east of England. Hone your eye and mind to the opportunities around you, connect with like-minded people over a phenomenal hyper-local meal in nature and come away feeling restored, refreshed and ready to land new opportunities.

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Founder of Wilder Work, 07966 280 542, [email protected]

As a successfully exited entrepreneur Holly loves coaching other founders on how they can find financial and mental freedom. Coaching them individually, in groups and across a team. Holly founded PR agency, Journalista in 2009 built a team based on the values of equality, transparency, camaraderie and creativity. Together the team delivered ground-breaking campaigns in data-led PR comms and marketing that drove positive social changes across education, science and healthcare sectors.

Wilder.Work is what happened when Holly's three worlds converged. After selling her business in 2019 and re-qualifying as a professional coach, Holly coached local farmers in her home county of Kent. Here, she learnt regenerative farming techniques and found many could be applied in building better businesses. Resilient, natural energy filled businesses that self-regenerate. Wilder.Work is the answer to the networking, coaching and away days our founder sought for the business she ground away at building for over ten years. Seeking a deeper sense of purposeful production. She and the amazing team she has gathered are Wilder.Work.

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Refund Policy: Up to 30 days before the event starts. Eventbrite's fee is nonrefundable.

Who is the host of this event and who should I contact if I have any questions?
This is a Wilder.Work event. Contact Holly Tennock for more details on 07966 280 542 or [email protected].

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Hatch Park, Hatch Park, Ashford, United Kingdom