Shaking it up at Cotswold Conference Centre!

Every business needs shaking up from time to time – and ground sphereing is the latest way to excite and revitalise your team.

Imagine climbing into a giant inflatable ball and running, hamster-style, into your opponents while they try to guide or outwit you. It’s a hilarious and breath-taking team-building exercise that gets everyone involved – and afterwards keeps them talking.

Cotswold Conference Centre is one of the first venues to offer ground sphereing as a teambuilding exercise – and Dalcour Maclaren, a firm of chartered surveyors, was the first company to take up the challenge. “We had such a good time,” says Dalcour Maclaren’s Julia Rouse-Taylor.

“We were looking for some really original ways to bring our team together and ground sphereing was something new to all of us.” Sphereing is branded as Zorbing at Cotswold Conference Centre, where the great outdoors is a big selling point for corporate groups. Dalcour Maclaren brought 31 people on a treat and team-building weekend that included Archery, Laser Clay and Rabbit Run. You can read more about these activities in our teambuilding pages.

“Ground zorbing is much more than a mad-cap bumping frenzy,” says Tom Farrell of Leisure Matters, the sphereing company for Cotswold Conference Centre. “As a corporate or team building activity it can be adapted to create competitive races, time trials or relays for any number of participants.” Team members dive into the 20mx20m inflatable spheres, take the controls and run like mad, bouncing and bashing into their opponents. “Each competitor is able to set a pace to suit their own physical ability,” says Tom. “Anyone not wishing to ‘zorb’ can still be part of the team by holding the ball for their colleagues, shouting instructions and helping at the relay points.”

Sphereing is a fantastic new activity which is fun, challenging and involves everyone. To book your session, call Rachael Buttery on 0845 230 8580.