06/10/2026
When teams plan a few days away, the default is usually a hotel. I get why. It's easy to book and everyone gets their own room.
But think about what actually happens. Dinner finishes, people drift off to their rooms, and by nine o'clock half the group is on their laptop answering emails. The bar's full of other guests, the meeting room is booked by the hour, and nobody really switches off.
At Newgale there's a choice of rooms, with bunk rooms in Skomer and Ramsey and en-suite rooms in Caldey House. What everyone shares is everything else. Meals, evenings, a drink at the end of the day, all under one roof with no one else around. That part's on purpose.
Most of our groups are people at the same level. A senior leadership team, a group of managers, a cohort of apprentices. Plenty of them only really know each other from meetings, and some have never met in person because they work on different sites.
A few days of eating together and sitting round in the evenings changes that. The best conversations often happen later on, when someone gets a cup of tea and finally says the thing they've been sitting on for months. That doesn't tend to happen in a hotel corridor.
If you're planning something for your team next year and want to come and have a look round first, send me a message.
