The voting was pretty close but after a final count up we’re delighted to report that the winning charity with the most votes was The Bobby Moore Fund - visit our Christmas Campaign Results Page for further details.

We wish you all a very Happy New Year and look forward to working with you in 2011.

Christmas team building event

We’re not sending any Christmas cards this year - instead we’re making a donation to a charity and would like you to help us choose which charity benefits from this initiative!

Simply visit our Christmas Charity page and place your vote.

In the meantime, we hope you have a fantastic Christmas and New Year and look forward to working with you on your team building events in 2011.

From all the Team at Kaboura Events

Venue finding

Choosing the right venue for your team building event can be as daunting as organising the event itself for many people.  Choosing the right location and negotiating prices to get the best deal is not only time consuming, it can be incredibly demanding too.  Enter The Venue Team…

The Venue Team is a dedicated Venue Finding Agency that can help take the pain out of finding a suitable venue for your team building event whilst providing you with a totally FREE service.  Here’s how it works…

You provide one of the Venue Finding Consultants with a few details about the type of place you’re looking for and they will come back to you with a minimum of three suitable Venue Options that fit your brief.  In addition they’ll check availability, provisionally hold space and even negotiate prices to ensure that you get the best possible deals.

The Venue Team is able to provide this as a totally FREE Venue Finding Service as they are paid a small level of commision by the venues following your event - clearly a win-win option for everyone!

For further details on how The Venue Team can save you time and money, give them a call on 08445 007138 or visit the Venue Team website for more information.

The Venue Team - finding you the right venue, in the right location, at the right price

We’re pleased to announce that everything is working smoothly and we invite you to take a look around the page which offers a greatly increased level of functionality. The new design offers new functions that will help you find the team building event that best suits your needs in a simple click.

Some of the main re-design changes and new functions include the following…

At the top we maintained the logo and the top navigation and added a new interactive banner that highlights some of our most popular team building events. We will also be using it to display monthly special offers so pay close attention to it when you land on our home page.

On the left hand side you will find a list with our most popular team building events. This will change from time to time so make sure you check back regularly in order to provide your team with top notch activities.

Moving on we have the main area of the re-design, the middle section. We have added new buttons to make it even easier for you to find a team building event according your specific needs. Looking for a team building event for 100+ people, just hit the 50-100 + button to generate a list with all the suitable team building activities for over 100 people.

Still can’t find an event to suit your needs? Try our Ideas Generator or contact us and we’ will respond to your enquiries within four business hours.

Below these new buttons we have two new sections - one will be used to highlight our most unique and highly rated team building events and the other section offers quick links to some of our most important pages. Under these quick links you will find Kaboura’s social media channels where you can find a link to Kaboura’s Facebook Page, YouTube Channel, Twitter and our blog’s RSS Feed.

Further down we have added a new lower navigation and below that is an interactive list highlighting some of the clients we’ve worked with on our team building activities and team building events.

And of course, we want to hear your feedback now so please do share your thoughts with us… and please be honest, your feedback is extremely important to us.!

Stay tuned as we are working more new features to be added to the site soon.

Such events are specially designed to promote corporate social responsibility, deliver significant benefits to the selected community as well as support your team to bring the best in each individual.

As afore mentioned community team building events generate numerous benefits to your workforce, business and obviously the community.

For businesses alike it provides a helpful solution towards corporate social responsibility by motivating employees in achieving real value tasks, not to mention that these events are great opportunity to enhance brand awareness through PR initiatives. Community team building events are also a powerful tool for team and personal development.

Communities involved can benefit in numerous ways such as driving more attention and exposure to local community problems and projects which in turn could generate further volunteering opportunities, as well as creating an opportunity for community and local businesses to develop a more friendly relationship.

Employees can develop their social awareness by getting involved in real life causes that will really make a difference. Working on these real life situations will also give employees the opportunity to work with colleagues that they haven’t worked with in an informal way.

There are numerous community team building events that range from events that help raise money to worthy causes, to events that focus on local action with a global reach and literally help change lives of children in third world countries like India and Ethiopia.

Below you will find a couple of community and charitable team building ideas:

One World, One Team
This event provides a truly unique experience where teams work together in creating, producing, packing and dispatching gift boxes to children in need in developing countries around the world. If you are looking for a team building event that will really make a difference in people’s lives this is the event for you.

The Charity Challenge
An event to have fun with a purpose. Teams compete in a series of challenges from balloon modelling to recreating their version of world famous landscapes. After each task is completed teams are awarded with “Charity Chips” which can then be banked and converted into real cash. At the end of the event all the money raised is added onto a presentation cheque and delivered to the selected charity.

It is a good idea to contact the charity first and arrange for a representative to join the event and receive cheque and tell the teams where the money will be used.

Innovative team building activities and forward thinking even management company - Kaboura Events specialised in Community Team Building Events

On Monday we received a call from one of our clients requesting a last minute team building event for 140 people in two days time! At first we were a little unsure as to whether we would have the capacity to manage this event on top of an already busy week but I’m pleased to report we were able to create a high quality event at short notice and we rose to the challenge of delivering a “last minute team building event”.

The activity we provided was Mexican Railway - and it showed that we can manage events with really short lead times if needed. Can your team work together to design and build a unique railway to a specific brief?

OUTLINE
An ideal activity to build into a wider conference programme to give delegates a lift and get people working together.

OVERVIEW
Mexican Wave is a popular activity that can be tailored to your products and really get your team working together.

Participants are provided with specialist building material and have to construct their own section of railway track. These are then linked together to form one main Mexican railway line.

The group is then provided with a number of balls that must be manoeuvred around the track by working together. By co-ordinating the team’s movements by lowering and raising the track the ‘wave’ creates the energy required to move the balls.

For more information of the up to two hour team building event and more unique team building ideas contact Kaboura or use our ideas generator.

That is exactly why community and charitable team building events were created. These events were created to unify workers through community and charitable events that benefit your local community and promote corporate social responsibility.

Here at Kaboura Events we have run over 100 Community Team Building Events which provided over £500,000 and over 10,000 person-hours worth of benefit to local communities. Based on our extensive experience on the subject we compiled a list of five unique charitable team building events that are guaranteed to make a difference with your team and your local community.

1. One World, One Team: Supporting Kids in Need

One World, One Team is a team building event that focuses on local action with a global reach as teams work together to create, produce and pack unique ‘gift boxes’ for distribution to children in need - it’s an event that literally changes the lives of children in developing countries around the world.

2. Make a Difference Days - Go Mad

They’ve been described as ‘Ground Force’ meets ‘Changing Rooms’ and aim to provide teams with a really different, worthwhile and meaningful way to work together to support others.

Working in partnership with a wide range of worthy causes and charities such as Hospices, Scout Groups and environmental charities, our Make a Difference team building days provide teams with a really different team building opportunity that’s both fun and rewarding.

3. The Charity Challenge

The Charity Challenge team building event is a unique team event that promotes team work and provides real benefits through ‘fun and fundraising’.

4. Building a Dream

Building a Dream is an exciting and new team building event that benefits teams and results in kids bikes being donated to charitable children’s projects throughout the UK.

5. Going for Growth

‘Going for Growth’ is a really creative and unique event that’s being developed by our team to provide you with a worthwhile and fun event that has a really positive impact on the environment.

As a team, you’ll need to work together and undertake some environmentally focused team tasks in order to identify a unique secret location.

If you don’t think any of the afore mentioned team building ideas are suitable for your team use our Ideas Generator, simply outline your options and click the find event button. Yes it is that easy to find a team building event that tailored to your needs.

Imagine a football team where the left back runs up and down the wing whenever he feels like, without even caring if the right back is covering for him or the midfielders don’t know what the strikers best foot is. I don’t see a team like this going too far, that is exactly what happens to businesses that don’t invest in team building activities for  their employees.

The Team is the building block of every successful business. A good solid team should be the motivation behind the success of any company.

By incorporating activities that help bring your employees together, you are not only alleviating stress from the daily work environment, but you will also have the opportunity to observe the dynamics of your group as well as any hidden skills that some of your employees might have.

For instance, the person that is always quiet and unassuming, during a team building game this person could reveal an extraordinary organisation skill as he or she create a plan to help the team win the game. This hidden skill can then be used within your organisation in every day work.

Going back to the football team analogy, team building activities are ideal to connect people from different departments creating key relationships within your enterprise and infusing new life into dormant departments. Remember the left and right backs?

Successful team building also helps to raise the morale of your workforce and the byproduct of that you will notice on your productivity levels. When employees feel good about themselves and their work environment, they not only work better but they also take pride in their daily tasks with many going the extra mile to produce something they are proud of.

Implementing a team building schedule into your calendar will require an investment of time and money but the benefits of connecting different personalities and background within your team are far greater than all the investment needed.

Nowadays in UK there are hundreds of companies specialised in creating team building activities tailored to any business, be it small or large corporations.

A charitable team building event for your team

Team building events are specially tailored to unify your work force through all sorts of activities. Over the years, innovative charitable and community team building activities have gained in popularity thanks to the wide range of benefits generated, not only to your business and its employees but also to your local community.

If you like the idea of community and charitable team building activities then look no further as that is exactly what this article is all about. There are countless benefits that these types of team building events provide. From my point of view these type of charity focussed events are the most beneficial and complete team building activities currently available.

Why Community Team Building Events are so valuable?

Because they benefit you, your employees and your community. In addition to providing your team with a valuable team bonding experience these events provide real tangible benefits to a wide range of charitable, community and voluntary organisations.

With that in mind, I would like to highlight the real benefits that these type of team building events bring in three specific areas - Business Benefits, Community Benefits and Employee Benefits.

Business Benefits of Community Team Building Events

Charitable and community team building events provide a practical solution to help your company meet its social responsibilities.

By providing real life experiences they motivate your employees by achieving tasks of real value.

Enhance your brand awareness and develop better public relations through working in you local community.

Effective vehicle to develop team and personal growth. Working to support worthy causes and benefit others is one the most rewarding and unifying tasks a team can undertake.

Powerful tool for enhancing communication skills, team work and problem solving through real life situations.

Community Benefits of Community Team Building Events

As the name suggests these types of activities provide support to the community with projects that are in most need of help. Prior to undertaking a community or charitable team building event, try to identify a charity or worthy cause that you feel reflects your values and then speak to your event management company and let them take care of the rest.

Such events often encourage your employees to get involved in other volunteering activities within the local community which helps provide a longer term benefit too.

But above all these activities will provide a valuable link between your business and its neighbourhood as well as local community organisations.

Employee Benefits of Community Team Building Events

Your employees will have an opportunity to support and become involved in worthy causes within their own community. Working with real life experiences helps them develop unique personals skills that will have wider benefits in your business.

Community team building events are not only focused on raising awareness to the local community they also open the eyes of your employees to wider community and global issues.

Working with colleagues outside the work place and in their own local community is a priceless experience that brings many benefits and helps to develop personal skills.

And the reason why it’s so important to hire an event management company is to ensure that the project is managed safely and effectively, meets your specific requirements and provides the team with a fully packaged event that not only helps bond and develop but also benefits a worthy cause in the community.

Charity Team Building Days continue to grow

Despite the recession continuing to bite deep for many businesses, a large number of companies are still recognising the importance of maintaining morale in the team and bringing their staff together for a good old-fashioned bit of ‘team bonding’.

And with budgets being continually squeezed, many businesses have chosen to give their team building day a charitable aim to ensure that the events still continue despite the sweeping cost cutting that is being seen across the corporate world.

Peter Barker, Director of Kaboura Events, states that ‘whilst many of our team building events have seen a down turn in the last year, the specialist ‘charitable team building‘ that we provide is almost 20% up on last year. Clearly the message of developing teams is still firmly on many peoples’ agenda and having an opportunity to provide some tangible benefit to a worthy cause as part of this is helping many teams justify the budgetary spend for on-going events’.

Community Team building events clearly provide many benefits to worthy causes and charities and enable teams to bond and work together on real life challenges that really make a difference.

For further details contact Kaboura Events on 08450 780453.