Activities – Unusual Ideas

The M&MR creativity department is our hardest working one.  Constantly being challenged to come up with ‘something different’ we have built an industry wide reputation for delivering the unexpected when it comes to unusual activity days. Some of these are below…

Vintage Tractors
Ooh – arr! How are your co-ordination skills? Can you get your hay stacked in time? A great team relay.

Antique Trail
Your team must track down and identify a number of original Victorian artefacts used in households and businesses just 150 years ago.

Napoleonic Cannons & Mortars
Each group must aim, load and fire a genuine historic cannon at the fortress target. Instructors dressed in appropriate historical costume are on hand. It’s a lot of fun involving loads of smoke.

Camera Obscura
Using original Victorian camera equipment, teams are tasked with taking & developing an original sepia-toned composition of themselves in a traditional pose requiring creativity, planning and learning the original techniques of earliest photography.

Country Pursuits
Gun dogs, falconry and ferret racing are all part of our country pursuits option and an entertaining and photogenic activity.

Circus Skills
From plate spinning and juggling to stilt walking and unicycling. A very popular activity day.

Pot Throwing
A professional potter will run a team session based around pot throwing using a traditional kick wheel.

Ice Carving
Watch the demonstration and then get to work on your own team’s masterpiece.

Drum Pulse
With a professional musician and facilitator, learn the basics on a whole variety of percussion instruments.

Horse Whispering – a useful leadership tool
Not just “another management course”, rather an acknowledgement that 93% of all communication is non-verbal, and by working with horses - who do not communicate verbally (at least not in English) - this provides an ideal opportunity to begin to understand that. By taking away words, we are forced to really think about the way we act and the impact this has on others. Horses react and respond to body language, not verbal commands - just as employees respond better to what they see and sense in their leaders rather than what leaders say

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