What happens at a Getting the Balance event?
Treat your team to an engaging session of incredibly fun and energetic challenges in keeping with the scooter theme, and honing their skills in planning, collaboration, and tenacity.
Getting the Balance takes around 2.5 hours and in teams of up to 8, you’ll work together to take on 6 team challenges. Successful completion of these challenges will earn you the parts you’ll need to build your very own scooter. Both cerebral and physical challenges, there’s something for everyone!
Benefit from the inclusion of CSR in your team building event, as an authentic and effective tool for creating high levels of engagement and commitment to both their colleagues and your business.
Why make and donate scooters?
Getting the Balance was created after the incredible success of our Charity Bike Build. The charity Home-Start approached us, to see if we could provide something similar for their younger children from 7-12 years old.
The event contributes to their health and wellbeing project, with the aim of reducing pollution on the school run through donations of scooters to families living in poverty, disability or mental health difficulties.
The exercise a child can get from the school run, helps to boost and support their mental health, with schools commenting that children arrive ready to learn, if they’ve already had exercise before they arrive.
Getting the Balance mini challenges
You can choose to add to extras to the event – teams can earn bonus points to acquire accessories for the scooter and jazz up the ride for the child receiving it! Maybe a helmet or lights?
Points can be won through mini challenges including:
- Scatty scoot marathon – put your balance, coordination and speed abilities to the test!
- Photo mission – Through the medium of photos, your team must represent 5 statements that focus of key words and values from your strategy.
- On target – the ultimate hand eye coordination challenge
- Safe passage scooters – a test of strategy and problem solving
Getting the Balance FAQs
What's the group size for Getting the Balance?
To maintain a bit of healthy competition, Getting the Balance works best with at least two teams of around eight people. But we can cater for smaller groups too! The event is totally scalable and suitable for groups of 8 - 2000+.
Where does Getting the Balance take place?
We'll bring our team and all the equipment for the event directly to you, whether you're at a hired event space or on-site at your offices. We're invested in keeping our carbon footprint low, so we have a network of specialist o3e Event Crew across the country. We've held events in the UK, Europe, the USA and beyond!
How do you choose which charity the scooters we make will be donated to?
If you don't already know which charity you'd like to support, we'll give you options for organisations in need, typically in your local area as we feel supporting your own community is important. Scooters are particularly valued by children's carers charities, sports initiatives and community projects in underserved communities. Although we work with big charities like Action for Children, we tend to try to encourage giving donations to smaller charities who don't always receive the same funding as larger organisations.
How long does the Getting the Balance event last?
It's designed to last around 2-2.5 hours. However we can be flexible based on your agenda - if you're running a drop-in session at an exhibition, or a larger full day event, get in touch and we can discuss options.
What happens after the Getting the Balance event?
After the event, we'll deliver the scooters you've made directly to the charity, normally on the very same day straight after your event. Once the recipients have had the donations for a short while, you'll receive feedback you can share with your team to really demonstrate the difference they've made by participating in the event.
I'm interested in Getting the Balance - what next?
Get in touch with us via our Contact Form, the phone or email to let us know the size of your group, the anticipated location and date of your event (if you have one). We'll then provide a straightforward quote and a summary of the number of scooters you'll be making. If you choose to go ahead with the event, we'll get the ball rolling with the event set up. We project manage the entire process from start to finish. We'll liaise with you about charity options and organise the event logistics, agenda, event space set-up and charity representative. We can also add bespoke elements to your event, depending on your objectives - for example, you might want to incorporate messaging surrounding your company's mission and vision, values or brand. We pride ourselves on providing exceptional service, and our client testimonials and satisfaction scores are a testament to this!