In the afternoon before the start of the SWN experience and across the morning after, we can offer your guests the opportunity to enjoy a selection of deeper immersions in the woods. We have facilitators who are experts in several skill sets that can provide sessions for everyone or just a smaller number of your party in the following experiences:

• Forest Bathing, (shinrin-yoku)

• Gong Bath meditation

• Bird Watching in the valley

• Facilitated group practices in nature connection

• Group relationship-building games

• Wilderness activities (including friction fire making, campfire cookery, herbal tinctures, foraging etc)

We work with several local and very excellent chefs who deliver exceptionally high-quality catering options. We always cook with local, organic ingredients, and with the huge variety of excellent biodynamic, organic and regenerative farms nearby the menu options are guaranteed to be delicious. We love consulting with our clients to ensure the meals offered are as honouring of the land as they are delicious to eat while bearing in mind any dietary requirements you have.

Our evening meal is usually served on plates around the campfire by the famous log cabin in true Singing with Nightingales style. We all enjoy the warmth and light of the fire and the timeless sense of entering into an older way. Dinner is eaten on laps maintaining the more rustic charm of our event. However, a table service arrangement can also be arranged for a more high-class affair.

A full wet weather contingency is always on hand with our delightful hand-made wood and canvas ‘huntsman’s shelters’. These are erected over the fire to offer waterproofing from any bad weather during the first parts of the evening. Once we leave the fire however guests are at the mercy of the quality of their waterproofs with help from our SWN umbrellas. See practical info on our Programme & Details page.

For all guests, we provide a diverse range of hot drinks, local craft beers, ciders, and wines. All our drinks come from suppliers we have gotten to know, most of whom are local and all of the highest quality. This can be made more specific for your requirements should that be necessary, and a more elaborate stocked ‘bar’.

We can offer a locally foraged herbal infusion and have offered mocktails with foraged ingredients in the past which make for a nice detail. Due to the nature of this being a sensory awareness experience, we do encourage our guests to drink moderately and avoid liquors and spirits on site (until they are back at the fire at the end of the event).

We work with some of the finest musicians in the business to accompany Sam and would be happy to recommend a suitable musician that would appeal to your group.

Artists that have wowed us in the past are Alice Zawadski, Abel Selacoe, Saied Silbak, and Anna Mudeka. We can supply links to these and several other artists for further listening. Please see our SWN Artists page to get an idea of the breadth of 45 or more players who work with us each year.

We can offer guests a few options for where they sleep the night of their visit. We can arrange for local hotel accommodation at Horsted Place Hotel, or continue the Nightingale experience and sleep in our luxury yurts or bell tents on site. This way guests can listen to the singing birds (in the distance) as they fall asleep and be greeted by the dawn chorus and the magic of our secret site in the morning (we also provide earplugs for those less keen on the dawn symphony). In all our on-site accommodation heating can be provided and turned on ahead of the guest’s return from the walk. Yurts and bell tents all come with double beds or twins, beautiful fabric interiors and a small space to sit and relax on chairs before bed.

For those choosing to stay over and awake in the woods and meadows the next day we will have tea, coffee, and breakfast available. Guests will also have use of our bespoke woodland hot showers we have constructed specifically for guests.

For those who don’t mind the night drive and prefer to wake in their own beds, leaving the site directly to home is also an option. Knowlands Farm to central London is a 1hr 40mins drive at that time of night.