What happens at a Performance Wheelchair Challenge event?
Suitable for group sizes 10 – 500
The Performance Wheelchair Challenge is perhaps one of our most rewarding CSR team building challenges.
In teams of around 10, and facing challenges along the way, you will build Motivation Sports wheelchairs for grass roots inclusive sports clubs or charities.
All the equipment and tools you need to successful build your wheelchairs are provided by o3e staff on the day.
Why build and donate sports wheelchairs?
Whilst disability and inclusive sports clubs do exist, sport remains inaccessible for many people with disabilities due to the high entry cost of buying sports or racing wheelchairs. Many sports clubs lack the funding, to ensure there are enough wheelchairs to meet demand. Sport is also a crucial tool in rehabilitation for many people.
We buy all of the wheelchairs for this event from the fantastic charity Motivation International, which means you can be sure that your event is helping people with disabilities at every stage.
Your finished event wheelchairs will be donated to charities supporting people right here in the UK. In addition, 100% of the profits Motivation make from the wheelchairs bought for your event, will be invested back into their global projects, helping people like Hari.
Motivation sports wheelchairs help disabled people across the world to access grassroots sports. This is part of their wider work to design and provide wheelchairs, services and training to disabled people in developing countries, enabling greater independence and the opportunity to fully participate in all aspects of life. Find out more about Motivation.
Performance Wheelchair Challenge mini challenges
Your Performance Wheelchair challenge will take between 2-3 hours, and can also be extended if desired, through adding in more challenges.
The challenges you take on throughout your event, have been carefully created to build empathy and awareness for people living with disability. These challenges are a great way of ‘levelling the playing field’.
A standard Performance Wheelchair Challenge will have 6 challenges. Here are a few that we offer:
-Boccia: The famous Paralympic sport with a twist
-Colour blind: How well will your team be able to communicate when we take away one of your senses?
-Wheelchair Marathon: A racing wheelchair and a rolling road simulator, have you got what it takes to power your team to the finish line?
-Grey Matter: A series of brain teasers
-Paralympic Quiz: Name the Paralympic stars and answer questions around disability sport
-Wheelchair Race: A head to head relay race in a wheelchair
-Photo Mission: Through the medium of photos, your team must represent 5 statements that focus of key words and values from your strategy.
Once the wheelchairs are complete, we offer the option of having a basketball match finale, an obstacle course or a race, if space allows. This is huge amounts of fun! Check out our client NBC taking on the race challenge!
The wheelchairs will then be taken directly to the charity for immediate use! As with all of our activities, we will follow up with feedback from the charity, so you can see for yourself what a difference your hard work made!
Performance Wheelchair Challenge FAQs
What's the group size for the Performance Wheelchair Challenge?
The Performance Wheelchair Challenge is one of our completely scalable events - this highly participative event works just as well for teams of 10 as it does for groups of 500! We can also offer the activity as part of a conference, drop-in, "impact hour", or exhibition stand - contact a member of the team to find out more about these options.
Where does the Performance Wheelchair Challenge 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 wheelchair we build 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. Sports wheelchairs are specialist and not provided as standard to children and adults with disabilities. This means many children with disabilities can't play with their friends, and many adults with disabilities can't participate in team sports. The wheelchairs we build are in high demand from sports disability charities for children and adults, wheelchair basketball and rugby clubs, and SEN schools and children's centres. Although we work with big charities like the Prince's Trust and Action for Children, we tend to try to encourage giving donations to smaller charities, local community clubs and smaller schools who don't always receive the same funding as larger organisations.
How long does the Performance Wheelchair Challenge last?
It's designed to last around 2-3 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. We can be flexible with the mini-challenges within the event, so get in touch to discuss options.
What happens after the Performance Wheelchair Challenge?
After the event, we'll deliver the wheelchairs you've built to your chosen cause, normally 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 the Performance Wheelchair Challenge - 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 wheelchairs you'll be donating. 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!