exclusive challenges

An exclusive challenge is one which is reserved only for your employees (and their family and friends should you wish) to join. You can allow each person participating to choose their own charity to support, or you can dictate that it should be for your charity of the year partner.
Many companies encourage their employees to join exclusive trips through their charity committee or specific interest groups from within the organisation. In fact since the launch of our community challenge programme in 2004, over 90% of the challenges have been corporate exclusive teams for the likes of HBOS, Coutts, Schroders, Saatchi and Saatchi, GE Money, Turner Broadcasting, Serco PLC, Lloyds TSB, Reuters, IBM, BP, TOTAL, Credit Suisse and many others.

Many companies have found that the bonding experience participants experience on an adventure challenge, can bring very real benefits to a corporate team. It is of course a very real training ground and people from all backgrounds are levelled to the same starting point as they all leave their comfort zone for up to two weeks, experiencing life away from their families, without home comforts such as a bed, flushing toilet, Blackberry, TV and radio, where they may have to rely on their colleagues when morale is low, or if they are physically shattered from the challenge.

We can organise private group departures for companies wanting to use the challenges for any of the following, or even purely to fundraise for your charity of the year partner:

Networking
Corporate social responsibility
Team building
Personal development
Incentives for staff
Morale boost
Recruitment of good people
Retention of good people

Our community challenge programme also has many additional corporate benefits (see below). The community challenge programme helps to address both HR and CSR needs by combining a powerful and effective learning and development experience whilst focusing on the outcome of helping to solve community issues that really matter.

the business:

A powerful and effective challenge for team, management and leadership development.
Engages and develops leaders, managers, newly formed teams, virtual teams and graduates.
Helps to raise and resolve underlying development issues and pushes employees to think differently about themselves, their business and the society in which they live.
Retention of key people.
Great way to build upon existing employee volunteering programme.
Practical and hands on solution to a community investment programme.
Combines community investment programme whilst developing the company's greatest asset – their people.
Helps to address core social issues that impact upon the business.

the individual:

The outcomes will never be forgotten as the results are real and really matter.
Inspired and motivated through achieving tasks of real value outside the work environment.
Engages mind, body and team spirit.
An experience that benefits you both personally and professionally.
Learning through working in a new, unfamiliar environment.
Short duration, low risk, genuine relief work experience
See countries as they really are

the community:

Creates an effective and engaging sustainable charity partnership.
Encouragement that they can do something to change their situation.
Encouragement that they are not ‘forgotten’
Your travel, food, accommodation and spending boost the local economy significantly
Builds the self esteem of individuals