Treasure Hunts – Countrywide Locations

We’ve written and run Treasure Hunts in Portugal on Segways, Somerset in Helicopters, and York on foot. There’s more to this than solving clues and finding treasure.

Our challenges are designed to allow team members to play to their strengths, solving challenges, gathering information, capturing photographs, acquiring souvenirs and working together to win the most points. Challenges can be themed to suit the location or the audience, we even have an extreme version for more daring teams.

Key Points

• Designed to suit analytical, creative and extrovert characters alike
• Bonds people from across the organisation
• Tailored to suit the participant group, highbrow or high energy
• Highly competitive
• A great way to explore a new location
• Suits all budgets with on foot routes from £35 per person*

*Min 50 participants

Activities

Our Treasure Hunts vary depending on the group size and if there is any theming but to give an idea of what is included please see the list below:

• Find and solve clues
• Photographic challenges including the whole team in defined poses and locations
• Match pictures to places
• Hunt for and collect specific souvenirs
• Solve bonus puzzles and conundrums

Body Percussion / Beats Working

Get out of the office and into the groove with a high-energy drum or music workshop.

Our coaches will boost the confidence and creativity of your team and get everyone working together to produce an original piece of music within a tight timeframe. Sessions can be themed using African drums, rainbow boomwhackers or a samba fiesta. A great buzz is created from the final performance which demonstrates the power of the large group working together.

This event can literally be run anywhere, indoors or outdoors, and is a great and subtle way of getting large teams to work together and achieve a shared sense of success. It can also be tailored to your theme or outcomes.

Key Points

• Injects energy into a meeting or conference
• Encourages movement, thereby circulating blood to the brain to aid concentration
• Demonstrates the power of people working together
• Instils a sense of excitement
• Boosts confidence
• Led by former performers from ‘Stomp’ the musical

Activities

• Demonstration and tuition
• Scavenging for items which can become instruments
• Composition and performance

Community Project

Your team is a valuable resource who can contribute to a community project with practical skills, via fundraising or problem-solving. After matching your group with a suitable project our event managers work with teams to schedule, allocate and oversee work. Regular reviews and de-briefs ensure that skills and team strengths are identified, developed and celebrated making this a win-win event.

Activities

Projects may range from clearing or repair work at a local nature reserve, completing a garden makeover at a school, providing catering and entertainment for a local community group, painting and decorating, helping to install new furniture or facilities, or general building repairs.

The Toy Factory

Play is at the heart of our business and for the young it’s a gateway to learning.

Children learn as they play.
Most importantly, in play children learn how to learn.
O. Fred Donaldson

We developed the Toy Factory to build teams and give something back in the process. Teams are tasked with creating a handmade wooden toy. Which, if finished to a high standard can be donated to a needy child through one of our partner charities.

Key Points

• Encourages small teams to produce something exceptional
• Is a practical way to demonstrate corporate social responsibility
• Suits groups from 6 to 600
• No specialist woodworking skills required
• Less than an hour required to set up in a conventional meeting room
• Creates a climate for significant conversations amongst participants

Activities

The Toy Factory allows participants to select a role that appeals to their natural talents, whether that be practical, artistic or creative.

• Cutting out and sanding components
• Gluing and painting components
• Final assembly
• Organising resources to meet production needs
• Team decision making
• Design and painting the finished toy

Partner Charities

Shelter, Rainbow Trust, SOS Childrens’ Homes

Lights, Camera, Action!

A lively challenge that requires the team to think and work creatively within a short period of time, before presenting their results for all to see.

Teams can produce a short film either about their organisation or as an advert for a new product or for an entirely fictional device or brand.

Key Points

• Demonstrates the creative power of teams
• A highly effective way to help teams embrace change
• The finished films can be used after the event
• Suits groups from 6 to 600
• Can work in any location, worldwide
• Highlights individuals’ talents

Light, Camera, Action! Team Building Activities

This film-making team building activity enables participants to play to their strengths; in front of or behind the camera, editing or script writing.

• Creative thinking
• Considering how to convey a message
• Sourcing locations and props
• Script writing
• Planning the shoot using storyboards
• Filming and editing
• Acting and performing
• Managing, time, talent and resources

The Domino Effect

As organisations grow larger and more complex, it’s important to remember that everyone’s contribution matters, and that sometimes one bad move can cause the whole to fail.

In as little as an hour a team can build a huge colourful display of dominoes. The sense of achievement as each person’s contribution triggers the next is phenomenal.

Key points

• Powerfully illustrates the power of everyone working to a shared objective
• Requires respect, consideration and patience within the team
• A great energiser or finale to a conference
• Appeals to all ages and fitness levels
• Suits groups from 6 to 160

The Domino Effect Team Building Activities

The Domino Effect starts with participants working alone, then in small teams before finally coming together to create a giant (possibly record breaking) display.

• Designing intricate domino stunts
• Seamlessly connecting with others
• Focus on the individuals work whilst maintaining perspective on the whole
• Working with precision and excellence

Black Cab Challenge

Starting anywhere in London teams set off in their chauffeured Black Cab armed with a set of instructions, and cryptic clues to solve.

This event can be run for groups of 6 to 160 and working against the clock. The Cabs race around London as team members play to their strengths, solving challenges, gathering information, capturing photographs, purchasing souvenirs and working together to win the most points. The routes can be themed to include historic sites, places on a Monopoly board, Sherlock Holmes or Musical London.

Black Cab Challenge Team Building Activities

Our Black Cab Treasure Hunt varies depending on the group size and theme.  To give you an idea of what is included, please see the list below:

• Problem solving
• Photographic challenges including the whole team in defined poses and locations
• Match pictures to places
• Hunt for and collect specific souvenirs
• Spot a celebrity
• Solve bonus puzzles and conundrums

The Chocolate Challenge™

The Chocolate Challenge models business processes within a highly creative and energizing activity.

Teams must work together creatively, plan strategically and communicate effectively to develop and make a new brand of boxed chocolates. Our skilled facilitators can draw out parallels with day to day working life, so your team leaves with full stomachs and enthused minds.

Key Points

• Demonstrates the creative power of teams
• Appeals to all ages and fitness levels
• Suits groups from 6 to 600
• Less than an hour required to set up in a conventional meeting room
• Highlights individuals’ strengths

Chocolate Challenge Team Building Activities

Our Chocolate Challenge allows participants to select a role that appeals to their natural talents, whether that be creative, practical, analytical or dramatic.

• Creative thinking
• Chocolate tasting
• Combining ingredients
• Piping, shaping and decorating with chocolate
• Pricing and financial planning
• Team decision making
• Packaging design and construction
• Agreeing a marketing strategy and live pitching