Treasure Hunting Team Meets Ken Livingstone

Added to the list of celebrities spotted on our London Treasure Hunt is former London Mayor Ken Livingstone who met one of our teams and was kind enough to stop for a photo. It always adds to the fun when one of the teams meets someone famous and can earn them vital bonus points.

They key is to build the theme in as naturally as possible so that it doesn’t feel contrived and take away from the enjoyment of the event. However, a good treasure hunt writer will be able to work with their client to make this work without compromise.

So, your treasure hunt can be themed as as to what to choose it’s as broad as your imagination.

Treasure Hunt photo of the week

This is a great photo of a team having fun on a treasure hunt. There are actually three people in the photo, one of whom is being really supportive!

We have four boxes full of fancy dress costumes so we can add this to your event if you really want to have fun. People love dressing up and you can see the delight on their faces when we open up the fancy dress boxes. We often hear about a very stern manager who is unlikely to get involved, only to find that he is the one dressed as a Spice Girl at the end of the day!

Benefits of team building

There are many benefits to team building events. Treasure Hunts are fairly unstructured in terms of business linked outcomes and the main benefits come from social team bonding.

Team building between cross functional teams can be extremely beneficial. Putting people from different work teams together for a day of fun strengthens relationships between departments.

Faces are put to emails and telephone calls. People end up with contacts in other departments; people they can contact when they need to get something done. It’s like adding oil to a machine.

The Bond Girls

We have a variety of themed treasure hunts and James Bond is always one of the popular subjects. Here you see a team posing for one of their treasure hunt photos with a pair of our James Bond stautes.

Treasure Hunt Capers

We give each team a digital camera on our Treasure Hunts and they have to capture specific photographic targets but they also bring back a record of their fun and experiences over the course of the day. It’s funny, on every event one team always ends up in bed together!

Some of the photographs we get are hilarious, check out the reel of shots below. Since the advent of digital cameras and the whole social networking movement people have become much better at taking amusing photographs.

Did you know, for example, that The Lloyd’s Building was built on the site of the old London maypole? Or that in 1690 during building works the remains of a wooly mammoth were unearthed. There is evidence of inhabitation of the London site going back half a million years and that it has been constantly inhabited for the last 15,000 years.

London is a wonderfully interesting event location.

Treasure Hunt Task

In this case the team have found a cinema and reproduced the poster outside and the result is really effective, probably because the people look fairly similar to those on the poster (from a distance).

A good Treasure Hunt has plenty of challenges that add to fun of the overall event. The key is to give the individuals in the team the chance to share fun, positive experiences as this is what builds relationships.

Treasure Hunts for corporate groups can be arranged around the UK and Europe with various themes and formats.

One might assume that a London Treasure Hunt would take in locations such as The Tower of London and Madame Tussauds, however the skill of the writer is to choose locations where there is plenty to see and do but where queues are avoided.

Cathedral cities in the UK make excellent locations for a treasure hunt, for example Oxford and Winchester.