Corporate Events
Corporate Team Building
Ballyknocken Cookery School, House and Farm, is the perfect venue for your unique corporate team building event, fun corporate away day, offsite meetings, overnight retreats or international incentives days out. We are only 47KM from Dublin and we offer a very different team activity experience, our fun team building cookery classes are a unique hands-on learning experience.
Come with your team and create new bonds over new skills in the kitchen, falconry and farm games, or why not try sheep herding for a bit of fun. Our special activity away days, can include our team building cookery classes combined with many fantastic outdoor team pursuits, summer BBQs and they are all tailor made exactly to your requirements.
Offering the perfect space to come together for offsite, planning and brainstorming meetings, we invite you to come away from the office to enjoy tranquil meeting room facilities in breathtaking surroundings with delicious farm to fork dining experiences.
We’ll plan everything you need right down to the smallest detail.
Summer Cookery Experiences
As the season shifts, it’s the perfect moment to bring teams together in a more meaningful way. Our Summer Cookery Experiences are designed to move corporate gatherings beyond the boardroom, combining fresh air, purposeful activity and culinary experiences that support wellbeing, connection and performance.
Whether the focus is team reward, leadership alignment, or simply pressing pause, each experience delivers a memorable reset with tangible takeaways.
southern Italian Masterclass
Want something different? Start in the kitchen with fun and flavour, we’ll help you experience a very different team building event. Cook, laugh, learn, perfect and savour great food with your colleagues. We’ll help design the perfect afternoon or evening with fun themed hands-on cookery experiences, unusual diversions and a superb meal at the end of it all.
Cook-For-A-Cause
Combine meaningful impact with memorable team engagement through our Cook-For-A-Cause experience at Ballyknocken Cookery School, House & Farm. This unique team baking masterclass brings colleagues together for a fun, hands-on experience while directly supporting the local community.
Working alongside our culinary team, participants prepare baked treats which are packed into hampers and delivered to the “Meals on Wheels” service in Wicklow Town. Combining team building with a strong CSR focus, the experience encourages collaboration, creativity and genuine social impact, before the team relax with a BBQ meal and music in the Haybarn.
BIODIVERSITY, BBQ & BEATS
Connect teams through a hands-on sustainability experience at Ballyknocken Cookery School, House & Farm. As part of our environmental stewardship and biodiversity programme, groups work together to create bee baths, build insect houses and plant native trees and perennial borders that support local pollinators and wildlife habitats.
Blending purposeful team engagement with a strong sustainability and CSR focus, this experience encourages collaboration, creativity and environmental awareness. Afterwards, guests can relax in the Ballyknocken Haybarn or Tayberry Barn with a BBQ meal and music.
Outdoor Team Building
If you would like to combine your cookery experience with an outdoor activity, Ballyknocken Cookery School & House is ideally situated on a farm in the heart of Co Wicklow.
Why not try out a fun and interactive sheepherding team activity with Pat and his collie Jess. We also have an amazing hands on falconry experience, team games, archery, clay pigeon shooting, hiking, Irish bodhran lessons and Irish dancing too.
These exciting outdoor activities are perfect for your corporate team event as they require each team member to display skills such as communication, organisation and leadership within the team and most importantly it is fun.
Dining spaces
After your team building cookery masterclass, depending on the Irish weather of course we can offer dining al-fresco, overlooking the majestic Carrick Mountain for spectacular views.
Our indoor dining comprises of our Tayberry Barn which can comfortably seat up to 48 guests with full wait service. For more intimate gatherings for smaller groups, dinner can be served in the dining room of our charming Ballyknocken farmhouse.
For summer BBQs and larger groups all year round we can seat up to 200 guests in our rustic hay barns.
Meeting spaces
For a unique offsite corporate meeting here at Ballyknocken Cookery School, House and Farm we invite you to come away from the bustle of the city for the day. We offer tranquil meeting room facilities in breath-taking surroundings.
We hold smaller private team meetings in our beautiful parlour room in Ballyknocken House. Located on the farm with unspoiled views of the Ballyknocken herb gardens and Carrick Mountain is our Tayberry Barn, the perfect space for larger corporate meetings.
Refreshments and lunch menus available.
International Incentive Days
For years Ballyknocken Cookery School, House and Farm has welcomed international guests to our idyllic corner of the garden of Ireland.
We can create unforgettable memories for any group size offering a truly authentic Irish farm experience. Starting off in the cookery school making traditional Irish scones, joining Pat and his collie Jessie on the farm for a fun and interactive sheep herding activity.
Followed by an Irish bodhran lesson, Irish dancing, Gaelic games and many more country pursuits to choose from. Gathering together for a Sheep Herders Feast in our rustic barn, with some Irish music.
Overnight Retreat
Make a great day perfect and stay with us at Ballyknocken.
After your brain storming day in the countryside, team building activities, followed by a gourmet meal, wrap it all up with a night’s exclusive stay in our award-winning 19th Century Victorian farmhouse is so special you’ll never want to leave.
We have seven beautiful twin, double and triple en suite bedrooms, most with Victorian roll top baths. Across the courtyard our converted Milking Parlour apartment has three double/twin en suite bedrooms with its own living area.
Activities and attractions available
Team building hands-on cookery masterclass, eg Southern Italian themed
Fun & interactive sheep herding activity with Pat The Shepherd and his collie Jess, falconry, archery, team games, and hiking in Carrick Forest
Irish bodhran lesson and Irish dancing too
Team Buildings strategic days where you can privately hire meeting facilities for small and large groups
Private room hire in a beautiful large open room for group activities such a yoga and meditation
International Incentive Days
Overnight accommodation in our 4* Victorian Farmhouse & Milking Parlour Suite
Wine and beer licence available
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“Thanks so much for a great day last Friday week, we thoroughly enjoyed ourselves and went home stuffed to the gills! I think the lads surprised themselves with what they achieved…”
Linda
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Where To Find Us
Ballyknocken Cookery School, House & Farm
Glenealy, Ashford, Co Wicklow,
A67 X720, Ireland
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Phone: +353 (0)404 44627
