Bikes for Tykes

The ultimate goal of this socially responsible corporate team building activity is to build a bike from scratch. Teams will complete a series of tasks and challenges in order to earn the pieces of their bike. Once all pieces have been collected, the building of the bike can begin. Once the bike is fully built, each team must bring their bike to a qualified mechanic who will give the bike the “once over” and report on any defects to the judges. The team to do this first (have their bike built and pass the test 100%) will be crowned champions for the day. Once the bikes are complete, each team finds out that their bike is to be donated to a local kids charity, and this team building exercise suddenly becomes 'real life', and takes on a whole new meaning.

With medals presented, the kids will all make their way to each team to receive the bikes from the delegates. What results is a frantic re-checking and adjusting of the bikes to suit the kids and to make them safe. It is this dramatic change from a fun team - building exercise into a very real scenario that gives the program its power. The change in the delegates now that the outcome is “real” is often quite staggering.

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