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With sweeping views across the Downs and the London skyline beyond, Epsom Downs Racecourse offers a striking backdrop for corporate away days. From active outdoor challenges to focused sessions, dining and celebration, team-building activities at Epsom Downs Racecourse have plenty of scope to make the day your own. With flexible indoor spaces, open-air surroundings and a hotel at the venue, Epsom Downs Racecourse brings together impressive views and a standout sense of occasion. 

 

We’ve partnered with GOTO Events, experts in delivering memorable team building activities that perfectly complement your corporate meetings at Epsom. Whether you’re hosting your annual summer or Christmas party, celebrating a milestone, rewarding your employees, enhancing skills or simply looking for a fun team day out, our activities are designed to boost collaboration and encourage creativity.

Bring the day to life

Bring the day to life

A great team day needs more than a meeting room. Across indoor spaces, open grounds and flexible event areas, team-building activities at Epsom Downs Racecourse can be built around the kind of day you want to create – active or relaxed, structured or social, fully hosted or shaped around your own supplier. 

From high-energy outdoor challenges to creative indoor activities, there’s plenty of scope to bring people together in a way that suits the group. Activities can be arranged through our trusted partners, covering everything from problem-solving tasks to sustainability-led experiences.  

 

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Activities for every agenda

Bring the buzz inside with team-building activities designed to test communication, creativity and quick thinking at Epsom Downs Racecourse. From game-show formats to problem-solving challenges, indoor team building keeps colleagues engaged and entertained, whatever the weather:

  • Betrayers – Can you spot the traitor among you? Trust and intuition are everything in this gripping game.
  • Under Pressure – Think fast and stay calm as your team tackles brain-bending tasks under the clock.
  • Master of the Tasks – Outwit, outplay and out-laugh your teammates in quirky, creative challenges.
  • Quid Games – Inspired by the hit shows, your mission is to survive the games and fill your team's fishbowl with cash.

The open grounds at Epsom Downs create a fantastic backdrop for activities that get teams moving. Whether you’re planning high-energy challenges, friendly competition in the fresh air or relaxed social games, outdoor team-building makes full use of the space:

  • Soap Box Derby – Design, build and race your own kart in this fast-paced throwback to Wacky Races.
  • Crystal Team Challenge – Solve challenges, earn crystals and reach the ultimate finale in the Cash Grabber Dome.
  • It’s a Knockout – Bounce, slide and splash your way to victory in a high-energy inflatable course.
  • School Sports Day – Relive your childhood with all the classic game plus exciting twists and surprises.

Bring a feel-good focus to the day with charity team-building activities designed to get colleagues working together at Epsom Downs Racecourse. From fundraising challenges to practical group tasks, it’s a rewarding way to add purpose to the agenda: 

  • Charity Bike Build – Assemble bikes for children in need across Africa.
  • Putt for a Purpose – Create fun mini golf holes using food bank items which will then be donated to charity.
  • Sleep Pods – Build weather-resistant pods for those facing homelessness.
  • Charity Bake Off – Bake treats alongside a Michelin-star-trained pastry chef to brighten the day of people in need.

For companies with CSR goals, sustainability-focused activities offer a hands-on way to connect teams with environmental causes while encouraging creativity, problem solving and collaboration:

  • Living Wall Workshop – Create a vibrant living wall that boosts wellbeing and office air quality.
  • Terrarium Workshop – Craft miniature green ecosystems to bring nature into your workspace.
  • Bee Hotel Workshop – Build bee habitats to support local pollinators and biodiversity.
  • Birdhouse Workshop – Assemble nesting shelters for birds in your local area.

What we offer

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Built for bigger away days

With generous outdoor space, flexible indoor facilities and a setting designed to welcome groups, a racecourse offers plenty of scope for away days that need more than a meeting room. 

Whether you’re planning outdoor challenges, breakout sessions, shared dining or a company-wide gathering, everything can take place in one distinctive setting. That means teams can move from activity to hospitality with ease, supported by spaces that are built for events of different styles and sizes. 

If you’re looking for a team away day venue with impact, Epsom Downs Racecourse offers the flexibility to arrange activities through trusted partners or bring in your own supplier, with a local events team on hand to support the planning from start to finish. 

Support that keeps everything moving

A successful away day requires thoughtful planning, smooth timings and a team that knows the venue inside out. At Epsom Downs Racecourse, our dedicated events team can help with everything from room layouts and activity planning to catering, supplier access and on-the-day support. 

Whether you need help arranging activities or already have your own plans in place, the team will work with you to make the experience seamless from first enquiry to final clear-down. With practical support built around your day, you can focus on bringing people together while we take care of the finer details. 

Racecourses are designed to welcome people at scale. Whether you’re bringing together a leadership team or a much larger company group, the facilities are set up to keep the day running smoothly. 

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Catering made for the whole team

Thoughtful catering helps turn a company away day into a proper occasion. From relaxed outdoor spreads, street food stations and BBQs on the grounds to sit-down service in indoor spaces, menus can be tailored around the format, timings and style of your event. 

With teams of every size and background, everyone is properly looked after. Halal, vegan, vegetarian and allergen-aware options can all be included, so whoever is joining you, the food works for them. 

It's all about the experience!

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With OVER 100 UNIQUE ACTIVITIES to choose from, our catalogue caters to every interest and skill set, ensuring a memorable and engaging experience for all participants.

View GOTO Events brochure to find out more.

 

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Why plan a corporate away day at Epsom Downs?

 

Few venues bring together space, atmosphere and versatility quite like Epsom Downs Racecourse. With open grounds for activities, indoor spaces for meetings and dining, and a backdrop that adds excitement to the day, it’s a setting designed to deliver more than a routine day away from the office. 

 

Whether you’re hosting a focused leadership session, an activity-led team day or a larger company gathering with food and celebration included, Epsom Downs brings together standout surroundings, thoughtful catering and an expert events team that knows how to deliver a polished experience from start to finish. 

 

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