Shared Interest Foundation Team Building Day

Posted by Amy

February 2, 2010

This week the newly formed Foundation Management Team were put through their paces at a Team Building day up in Allendale, Hexham.

The Shared Interest Foundation was established in 2004 and is the charity arm of the Shared Interest Society. Until this year the Foundation has only ever employed one full time member of staff; the Foundation Manager, Andrea Wilkinson. Due to the success of the Foundation Louise McLaren has recently joined Andrea as Foundation Project Leader.

The Foundation Management Team aims to support Andrea and Louise by holding regular meetings and deciding on key aspects of the Foundation’s development.

The day of team building helped the team to bond and more importantly to learn how best to work as a team.

The day involved some interesting and challenging activities which required the team to work together to get results, getting rather muddy in the process. As you can see from the photos, some of it was a case of the blind leading the blind. It always amazes me how doing simple challenges as a team can highlight so much about how you work together and how you communicate and perform. The team spent part of the day evaluating each activity and looking at ways to bring the learning back to the office.

I can speak for the whole team when I say we all went to bed early that night – it was certainly different to sitting in an office all day.

Shared Interest Foundation Team Building Day