The Sandstone Team Building Blog

I was reading today that this August was the “gloomiest” on record. And September is hardly looking likely to offer a nice “Indian Summer” in return. Oh joy. Within our group of international partners, we are fortunate to count an excellent Portuguese company that has a little more trust in the weather at this time of year than we do. Although they are based in Lisbon, they run a lot of activities on the beautiful Algarve and rarely need to worry about booking extra space indoors in case of bad weather - especially at this time of year.

Although we do run a significant number of overseas events ourselves, most of them are held here in the UK and here you just can’t rely on good weather. Hope for it and be ready to embrace it with as much happening outdoors as possible, but go with something that can run indoors on the day without losing anything other than a chance for a bit of a tan if the sun dance doesn’t work.

That said, we were lucky ourselves just yesterday. We ran our outstanding Cube activity for 350 people and all the weather forecasts for the area were for heavy showers all day. We had plenty of indoor space on standby to hold those things that we prefer to run outdoors - like our famous trike races, circus skills sessions, discus championship and so on. It rained all afternoon the day before. It rained over lunch. It rained again 2 minutes after we finished. For that matter it is raining now as I type this! But during the time that really mattered, the rain held off and we were able to take everyone outdoors that wanted to go outdoors.

Had it rained all day, the group would still have had a great time and we’d have still run every activity. But it was nice in this gloomiest of summers to be able to take such a large group outside! Our sun dance clearly worked.

Alan