What is a Team Challenge?
Team Challenges involve a group of colleagues working together on a practical challenge to benefit the local community.
Team Challenges take place over one day during the working week and will involve tasks far removed from the office environment. Teams can be as small as 10 or as large as 50, and all taking part will work together as a team to achieve the goals of the Challenge.
Why organise a Team Challenge?
There are lots of good reasons to organise a Team Challenge, and below are some of the main benefits:
• Supporting the local community
• Sense of achievement
• Team building
• Fun!
What have past teams helped with?
• Designing and building the outside sandpit area for a children's nursery in a City Farm on the Isle of Dogs
• Painting a church hall, and providing a general clean-up of a Churchyard of a Tower Hamlets Church, which also functions as a community centre
• Cooking and serving 200 breakfasts, and 400 cups of tea to the East End's homeless
• Designing and creating story sacks at a local primary school to encourage children with their reading.
What is the cost of organising a Team Challenge?
The administrative cost of setting up a Team Challenge is covered by your companies Lloyd’s Community Programme membership, but we ask that a donation is made to the community organisation that you support to cover the costs of the materials used on the day (e.g. paint, tools etc).
How do we organise a team challenge?
First identify someone in your team to be the team leader and ask that they contact Hannah Payson from the Lloyd’s Community Programme team.
Hannah will then work with the charity East London Business Alliance (ELBA) to identify a Team Challenge that will provide a real benefit for the local community.
ELBA is one of our partner organisations, who work to build relationships between business and the local community. They currently have a list of approximately 40 community organisations who would like the support of a Team Challenge to benefit their work and the people they support, so your team will definitely be able to make a difference!
Next Steps
If your company is a member of Lloyd’s Community Programme and you are interested in organising a Team Challenge for your company or department, please email Hannah Payson or call 020 7327 5484 for further information.
