Published 24 August 2026 | Meetings & Business | Tottington Manor
A great company away day needs two things that do not always sit naturally together: enough focus to move the business forward, and enough change of pace to bring the people in the room back together.
That is why Tottington Manor is delighted to be working in partnership with GOTO Events, bringing a wide choice of professionally managed team-building activities into business meetings, away days and corporate retreats at our South Downs venue.
For our meetings team, the partnership fills an important space between the meeting room and the dinner table. Tottington Manor can provide the environment — meeting rooms, fast connectivity, gardens and outdoor space, TERRA Restaurant, private dining and 12 bedrooms — while GOTO Events can add an activity format built around the team and the reason they have come together.
Why add team building to a business away day?
There is a big difference between moving the office meeting to the countryside and creating a genuine away day. A change of venue can help, but the strongest programmes deliberately change the way people interact with each other.
The Company Fun Day material supplied by GOTO Events describes the value of getting employees away from the office or home-office environment to reconnect through shared activity. Their dedicated team-building brochures then go further, repeatedly focusing on communication, teamwork, co-operation, problem solving and time management.
Useful outcomes highlighted across the supplied GOTO Events material include:
Communication
Problem solving
Creativity
Mental agility
Time management
Co-operation
Teamwork
Getting active
That gives us a better starting question: what do you want the team to feel, practise or achieve by the end of the day?
GOTO Events activity options range from collaborative mental-and-physical challenges to countryside pursuits such as archery.
Four different ways to change the energy of the day
Crystal Team Challenge
The Crystal Team Challenge combines mental and physical tasks across four activity zones. Teams rotate through the challenges, collect crystals and build towards a finale, creating a format where communication and problem solving matter as much as speed or strength.
School Sports Day
For something deliberately less serious, School Sports Day brings back the races, giant games, field games, human table football and tug of war. It is familiar, competitive and very good at getting job titles out of the way for an afternoon.
Country Pursuits
The country-pursuits brochure includes archery, axe throwing, crossbows, duck herding, laser clays, falconry and ferret racing. In a South Downs setting, these can create a natural bridge between a structured morning meeting and a more relaxed afternoon outdoors.
Company Fun Days
For bigger summer events, staff rewards or a company celebration, the Company Fun Day brochure moves into a much broader pick-and-mix format — from giant games and outdoor challenges to inflatables, fairground-style activities, entertainment and simulators.
School Sports Day is designed to create friendly competition, teamwork and the kind of laughter that rarely appears on a meeting agenda.
Building the whole day around the team
A team-building activity works best when it is part of the programme rather than an isolated add-on. A typical day at Tottington Manor might begin with coffee and a focused strategy session, move into lunch from the TERRA kitchen, switch into a GOTO Events activity for the afternoon, then continue over private dining or dinner at TERRA.
For senior teams or businesses travelling from further away, the same structure can extend into a residential retreat using our 12 bedrooms. For teams that need facilitated strategic thinking rather than activity-led team building, our Possibility Thinking partnership remains another route into a more structured business outcome.
Explore team building at Tottington Manor
We have created a dedicated guide bringing the GOTO Events options, downloadable brochures and the wider Tottington Manor away-day offer together in one place.
For now, the brochures are available as open downloads. We may introduce a short brochure-request form later so our meetings team can follow up with more relevant suggestions.
Brochure content is supplied by GOTO Events. Activity availability, operational requirements, inclusions and any pricing should be confirmed for your chosen date and group.
Gift your friends or family a Tottington Experience with our gift vouchers, whether it be for an Afternoon Tea, Dining or Overnight Stay. Our vouchers can be bought in person from the hotel or online and emailed as a PDF or posted to you.
