SolarBuddy
A hands on team challenge where participants learn about energy poverty and work together to build solar powered lights that will support children and communities without reliable access to electricity.
- Group size
- 6 to 2000 people
- Takes
- 1 hrs
- Where
- Your venue or ours
- From
- £65 per person
This price is a guide. We will confirm the real price in a proposal personal to you and your requirements.
SolarBuddy is a hands on team building experience that combines learning, collaboration and practical action. Participants are introduced to the issue of energy poverty and the impact that limited access to safe, reliable electricity can have on education, health, safety and everyday life.
Working together, teams assemble solar powered devices that will go on to support children and communities living in energy poverty. The activity creates a strong shared sense of purpose, while encouraging teamwork, communication and engagement around global sustainability and social impact.
- What the team does
- Learn about energy poverty, build solar powered lights together, creating practical solar solutions
- What gets donated
- SolarBuddy Solar Lamps
- The impact
- olarBuddy turns a team building experience into a direct contribution towards tackling energy poverty. The solar solutions assembled during the event are gifted to children and communities with limited or no reliable access to electricity, helping provide a cleaner and safer source of light. Beyond the immediate donation, the experience helps participants understand the wider connection between access to energy, education, health, safety and opportunity. Teams leave knowing that what they have built will continue to create an impact long after the event has finished.
- Proof
- 324,000 donated so far
How the day works
- 1
We arrive and set up
Our crew, the kit and everything else. Ready to go.
- 2
Your team builds
1 hours, everyone involved, nobody standing at the side.
- 3
We donate to the charity
Usually the same day, to the people who will benefit.
- 4
You get the story
Photographs, impact figures and copy for your CSR report.
- Hands on
- Thought provoking
- educational
- Fast
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