Looking to minimise the impact of your operations and pull off a fun-filled, sustainable event, but don’t know where to start?
The team at ACF Events offer a comprehensive eco-friendly event management service, which covers everything from finding venues with conscious credentials to sourcing caterers who use local, seasonal produce.
Whether you’re an ECOsmart certified venue looking for a sustainable supplier in the South West or a company looking to organise a corporate fun day, themed party, company festival or team building day that doesn’t compromise your values, ACF Events will help you pull off an event to remember that aligns with your green goals.
They have sorted their activities into three categories to take the stress out of eco event planning: charitable contribution, low-carbon, and positive impact. Let’s take a closer look…
1. CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTION
These philanthropic activities contribute to the greater good and leave you feeling good, too. The team can tailor an event to your chosen charity or recommend a worthy cause that aligns with your company values.
Host a fundraising family fun day or company festival.
Put the ‘fun’ in fundraising and reward your deserving staff with a family fun day or company festival that raises money through entry fees, old school raffles, or attractions. ACF Events can help you find weird and wonderful ways to encourage guests to dig deep, from fun fair stalls to donation stations.
Do you have multiple chosen charities and a team that loves to give their two cents? Reward challenge-takers with tokens they can donate to the charity pot of their choice. Would your colleagues pay a pretty penny to throw a soggy sponge at your face? Set up stocks where punters can pay for the privilege. Whatever you choose, the team will help you design a day that won’t be forgotten in a hurry!
- Rasie vital funds for charity
- Stengthen relationships with your team and the wider community.
- Invest in your workplace wellbeing.
Act on your corporate social responsibility with a Sleep Pod build.
Use your time and collective energy to help address the urgent social issue of homelessness. A Sleep Pod is a reusable, one-person shelter that offers protection from the elements. During the event, you’ll pair up and build a pod with your teammate.
The event team will provide all the information, materials and equipment, and each pod you build will be distributed by charities that support those in need, sometimes as quickly as the following day.
Optional extra: A representative from a local charity can deliver a talk on the issues faced by people experiencing homelessness and the benefits of Sleep Pods as an initial step on the housing pathway.
- Support those in need in your local area.
- Learn meaningful new skills.
- Work together towards a shared goal.
Bring your fave Saturday night TV show to life with a game show fundraiser.
Turn points into all-important donations with a game show-inspired fundraiser. You could opt for Family Fortunes, a Race Night, or a multi-round mash-up of ACF’s faves. The choice is yours!
Their charismatic host will lead the evening’s entertainment as you put your knowledge to the test and work together to raise vital funds for your chosen charity. They can even incorporate company-specific questions to make the event feel super bespoke.
- Meet your annual fundraising targets.
- Tap into your team’s knowledge.
- Let your hair down and make memories.
Other fundraising events include The Apprentice Challenge and our Charity Bake Off.
2. LOW CARBON ACTIVITIES.
Thanks to ACF’s leave-no-trace policy, these activities are as environmentally friendly as they are entertaining. They don’t use single-use items and use recycled materials wherever possible. Please note: ‘Low-carbon’ refers to the activity itself and not the event as a whole, but the team can work with you to minimise emissions across the board.
Step inside the silver screen with Mission Impossible.
You and your team have been tasked with preventing disaster. The clock is ticking, and so is the device. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to complete the challenges, decipher cryptic clues, find the correct code, disarm the device, and save the planet.
How well can you work together under pressure?! It’s time to find out!
- Enjoy creative problem solving.
- Get your cranial cogs whirring.
- Try something new.
Add another skilful string to your bow with an afternoon of archery.
Leave the stuffy confines of your office behind and enjoy an afternoon of archery in the great outdoors.
Channel your inner Robin Hood and try shooting arrows with the help of ACF’s experienced archers, who’ll be on hand to offer expertise that’ll have you hitting gold after gold! Pair with other country pursuits for a unique corporate team building event or family fun day.
- Learn a new skill
- Breathe fresh countryside air
- Flexible – add to the end of a busy conference, or enjoy as part of a multi activity event.
Dial up the competition with a lively Games Night
Giant games add a competitive team building edge to your event. ACF Events have an abundance of games available, from traditional pub favourites like darts, table football and pool, to out-there offerings like crazy golf, plate spinning, High Striker and The Buzzer.
Add it to a dinner for additional entertainment, or enjoy a competitive tournament complete with structured rounds. Whether indoors or outdoors, the height of summer or the depths of winter, they can plan a Games Night to fit your needs.
- Uncover hidden team talents.
- Boost team morale and create camaraderie.
- Make lasting memories with your colleagues.
Other low-carbon activities include Samba Drumming, Circus Skills, Haka, Mega Quest, The Hunted, Escape App, Axe Throwing, Bushcraft Skills, Record Breakers, Mega Quiz, Next Level, Silent Disco, and Sports Day.
3. POSITIVE IMPACT ACTIVITIES
Workplace wellness isn’t about handing out lacklustre leaflets filled with generic advice. Treat your team to one of their positive impact activities designed to reduce stress levels and refresh your workplace culture.
Turn lulls into LOLS with a Laughter Yoga Workshop.
A recent survey found that 69% of employees said their positive working relationships make them happiest at work, and what better way to soak up some shared silliness than with a laughter yoga workshop.
ACF starts by sharing the science behind laughter and the professional benefits it has to offer. Dial up the dopamine and embrace feel-good endorphins as you’re led through laughter-infused exercises designed to reduce stress levels and reinvigorate your relationships. Don’t consider yourself much of a stand-up comedian? No worries! No jokes needed.
- Diffuse tension, anxiety and stress.
- Try some truly unique exercises.
- Learn transferable stress-relief techniques for daily life.
Enjoy a culture-shifting experience with MiRo Psychometrics.
MiRo is a psychometric model designed to enhance team performance, reduce workplace conflict, and help you achieve your business goals. Spend the day fine-tuning your team’s problem-solving, innovation and planning skills, and leave knowing exactly how to play to your collective strengths. Pointless personality tests, begone!
Pre-event, you’ll receive a report outlining the behavioural mode you most align with – Drivers, Energisers, Analysers, or Organisers. On the day, trained facilitators will bring the definitions to life through interactive challenges that test your individual and group motivations. From industrial espionage to desert island survival, you’ll navigate each activity as a team to learn how you work and communicate best.
- Supports personal and professional development.
- Learn how best to utilise your team.
- Improve communication and workplace culture.
Nourish your mind and body with a cooking workshop.
A balanced diet helps to reduce fatigue and ill health, and actively benefits workplace productivity, but nutrition is rarely approached in corporate wellness programmes in a hands-on way. Enter conscious cooking workshops.
In the ‘Healthy Eating’ workshop, you’ll cook with mood-boosting foods to create dishes that taste good and make you feel good to boot. In the ‘Sustainability’ workshop, you’ll learn how to reduce your footprint by sourcing locally grown produce, before trying your hand at green cooking techniques like one-pot wonders or pickling and preserving.
- Encourage culinary creativity
- Learn about nutrition, seasonal eating and sustainable cooking.
- Kit and ingredients are provided, and sessions are suitable for vegans and vegetarians.
Other positive impact activities include Forest Bathing, Tai Chi, and Mindfulness.
ACF Events is a Greengage ECOsmart Certified agency.
They don’t just talk the talk. ACF Events even won a coveted silver award at the Greengage Sustainability Awards 2024 in recognition of our ongoing efforts to provide eco-friendly events for our conscious clients.
Download their Planet Wise brochure to discover how they can support you on your sustainability journey with impactful, intentional events you’ll reference for years to come.
The brochure and its researched findings were created with guidance from Greengage.
Act on your corporate social responsibility & book with ACF, your go-to for sustainable events in the South West.
ACF Events is one of the South West’s leading team building and events companies, committed to creating fun and memorable eco-friendly team building events that unify people.
