Corporate Team Events & Company Away Days ~ Excellence Guaranteed...See FAQ below

Based in the southern Wye Valley ~ the home of adventure activities ~ we are just over 2hrs from London and 1hr from Birmingham, Cardiff and Bristol. See Location

Your exclusive hotel and venue is situated near Ross-on-Wye and we also partner with other venues in Gloucester, The Forest of Dean, Chepstow and Newport.

We pride ourselves on our ability to build you outstanding Company Away Days or Corporate Team Events for SMEs, teams and departments. All our events are designed specifically to meet your needs.

Whether you want to celebrate a success; build a new team; develop an existing one; unblock a 'stuck' team; integrate new members; launch a project; upgrade team skills; build more effective relationships between departments or show appreciation for your team's efforts - we can help you.

Our approach

Whilst every event we’ve ever ran has been different, we always design our Company Away Days on the following principles.

Your corporate team event will always…

• Have Clarity of Purpose: We work with you to establish a clear set of event outcomes and agree how their success will be measured.
• Be Lots of Fun!: We provide safe, memorable and enjoyable Team Events and Away Days.
• Include Relevant Activities: Whether serious or fun, we ensure the activities provided are relevant to the team, their needs and can be linked directly back to their work context.
• Make a Difference: Your event will result in forward looking ‘next step’ actions where necessary, focused on making a positive impact back in work.

Mainly outdoor and some indoor events can be organised, utilising a range of activities. Some are physical and some cerebral. The broad spectrum of activities available means that everyone’s needs can be catered for.

The following are examples of some of the things available:

Canoe Trip
Gorge Walk
Raft Building
Duck Herding
Falconry
Clay Shooting, Archery, Rifle Shooting
Off Road Driving & Hovercraft Driving
High Ropes Courses
Climbing & Abseiling
Paint Balling

1. At our HQ we specialise in smaller groups of up to 17. You will have exclusive use of our hotel and venue for your event. http://www.livelifeevents.co.uk/accommodation.htm
   
2. Pencraig Court Hotel can cater for up to 50 for daytime events.
   
3. We also accommodate larger corporate groups of up to 150 at our partner hotels in Gloucester, The Forest of Dean, Chepstow and Newport. These range from three to luxury five star hotels.

Please use our free call back service to find out which venue will best suit your group.

Pencraig Court Hotel is the HQ of Live Life Events. This is your exclusive venue ~ a Georgian Country House set high on the banks of the River Wye. We provide a beautiful and an informal venue for workshops, seminars and meetings. Meeting rooms are extremely comfortable and vibrant.  Your rooms are tastefully decorated and have everything you need inc Wi-Fi throughout. Many have breathtaking views over the river and across to the distant hills.

http://www.livelifeevents.co.uk/accommodation.htm

For larger groups we use the following hotels:

www.thespeechhouse.co.uk
www.marriott.co.uk
www.celtic-manor.com
www.ramadajarvis.co.uk/bowdenhall

The following are the reasons cited by our previous and existing clients for why they chose us:

The Main Venue: Pencraig Court Hotel ~ an 11 bedroom Georgian Country House is available for exclusive use on the out-skirts of Ross-on-Wye along the England/Wales border. It has superb accesss to the motorway network coupled with its spectacular views and availability of delegate conferencing facilities makes it the ideal department or team venue.

Alternative Venues: Partner hotels are at hand to accommodate all group sizes and budgets.

The Activities Available: The range of challenging or super fun activities is vast. Therefore Live Life Events can cater for the needs of everyone within a team or group. It is comprised of a team of activity specialists who are experts in their field and are extremely enthusiastic, friendly and professional. Therefore, everyone can feel safe as well as have a great experience.

Skilled Facilitators: Your team or department will be in safe hands in every aspect. The activity instructors and also the Team Events facilitators have considerable experience in all aspects of team and people development. We guarantee your people will be emotionally and physically safe and that your event will add value to your organisation.

Hassle free: Your Team Event or Away Day will be allocated a client manager whose role is to ensure that all aspects of your event are delivered with excellence. Our moto is ~‘it’s not right until its all right’ and we focus on getting all of the supporting administration and detail right.

Please use our free call back service to get a competitive, fully inclusive price and proposal.

We know we are competitive and offer superb value for money. However, without knowing your specific requirements we are not able to provide set prices.

We do have a rough guide on our planner and quote page where you can add details of your event and get an idea of the investment you will need. The rough guide is exactly that. We can negotiate costs for larger groups or for the level of service required etc.

Please use our free call back service to get a competitive, fully inclusive price and proposal.

Live Life Events takes all the hassle out of co-ordinating your corporate event.

Pre organisation

You will need to let us know

• The purpose of your event
• Your budget per person if possible
• How many people are attending
• Exact dates and times
• Which activities you would like to do (we will help you with this)
• How you will get here (by road or train)

We will

• Give you a full proposal including the investment you will need to make and a break down of costs.
• Help you with deciding which activities will best suit your objectives. We have an online questionnaire facility also which can be distributed to your team. We collate the information to help with ensuring everyone is involved.
• Co-ordinate and make all the necessary arrangements for you to get your event in place.
• Give you a straight forward payment plan. After your deposit is received we can alter your event as required (where possible) and adjust the final balance accordingly up to 4 weeks prior to your event.
• Give you a full itinerary of your event.
• Give you joining instructions for all your participants so they are comfortable with what they are going to expect as individuals. We will also inform them of everything they need to bring in plenty of time before your event.
• Collate personal information forms from all participants to make sure we are aware of any medical or dietary issues. This information is kept secure.
• Liaise with you every step of the way pre-event to make sure you are happy with everything and are looking forward to your event.

Once you arrive at your hotel or venue we will take care of everything.

If travelling by train to Newport or Gloucester we will organise your transport to your hotel from the station. At this point everything will be organised for you.

• Transfers
• Welcomes and introduction to event
• All catering (special diets catered for)
• Hosting
• Activities and instructors
• Training and facilitation
• Conference facilities
• Accommodation
• Transport between locations
• Live Life Events post event service