The Sandstone Team Building Blog

Come the end of an event, one of the most common questions that we are asked is: “So – why Sandstone?”.  The answer is threefold.  Back in 1992 when we were founded, we didn’t feel sufficient megalomaniac tendencies to name it after ourselves.  Secondly, we deliberately wanted to choose something that didn’t include what we did in the name itself as we expected that to evolve over time. What a good decision that turned out to be!  We started life as an out-and-out training company and now, though learning and development is at the core of all of our activities and available for any client who wants it, we are 100% a team building company.

So that explains why, as a family owned and managed firm, we don’t have Hunt in our name and why we don’t have “Team Building” in there either, but not why we do have Sandstone.  With the restrictions of the first two points, we went looking for something that nonetheless had some meaning to it.  Though we now operate from three locations and indeed deliver events all over the UK and all over the world, our first office was in Tarporley, where we still have our head office.  Tarporley is a regular stopping point for people walking the Sandstone Trail, one of the most pleasant and famous long distance walking paths in the UK.  You can find out about it here and here.  As a building material, it is also in much evidence in many local buildings in and around Tarporley.  The name just seemed to us to fit.

Of course, that choice meant that in the early days we were often called up by people looking for building supplies.  These days we don’t often get such calls as people in the UK seem to know who were are and what we do by now, but we do get regular emails from overseas – particularly from China and India – from folk trying to get us to import their sandstone.  They find our contact details from our web site but either don’t take the trouble to read or can’t read any of the details on the site that would tell them very quickly they are wasting their time.  It’s kind of targeted spam, if there is such a thing.

So now you know why we are Sandstone.

Barbara