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Online: Contact: MTravel Solutions Ltd. www.motivaction.co.uk T: +44 (0)1438 861 821 MotivAction Church Farm, Ardeley, direct.motivaction.co.uk [email protected] www.motivaction.co.uk 01438 861821 [email protected] , SG2 7AH

Registered in & Wales. Company number 3092455. VAT Number: 827397589. MotivAction is a trading name for MTravel Solutions Ltd.

LetterheadA42015.indd 1 16/01/2015 15:17 Since 1987 MotivAction has helped over 2,000 organisations deliver 20,000 events in the UK and across the world. Whatever your budget, our approach is to listen to understand, create with you and aim to exceed expectations.

We are an independent, Hertfordshire based company, with a core creative team based in wild surroundings at Church Farm. In 2008, MotivAction’s founders started two community interest companies, Church Farm Ardeley and Aldenham Country Park. This brochure details events, conferences, meetings, team-building days, learning experiences, volunteering projects and family celebrations that can be held at either venue.

Please contact us for help and ideas, be it for an event at one of our own venues, or a UK or overseas venue of your choice.

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MotivAction www.motivaction.co.uk 01438 861821 [email protected] Church Farm Ardeley and Aldenham Country We have meeting rooms on site, plus a range Introduction Park are community interest, not for profit social of accommodation options including wooden enterprises, set up to benefit people, enhance cabins, camping from basic to luxury to local 5* wildlife and show enterprise can be leveraged to hotels. create social benefits and community good.

Less than an hour from London, our venues are situated in delightful rural Hertfordshire, providing natural settings for learning programmes, leadership development, implicit team bonding, celebrations and fun events.

MotivAction www.motivaction.co.uk 01438 861821 [email protected] Church Farm Conferences & Meetings Onsite Facilities Rustic charm, well equipped venue Come for breakfast, half day or full • Meeting & Events Room for up to 70 delegates Ardeley, with audio-visual and computer- day meetings. • Breakout Rooms & Smaller aided presentation facilities. From Field to Fork, our country dining Meeting Spaces Stevenage, Herts Available for breakfast, half day and options include the Farm Café, The • Quirky Dining Areas : Farm Café full day meetings, the converted Jolly Waggoner Pub or al fresco & Village Pub “Sow Yard” room can be set up BBQ’s on the farm. • On site Accommodation - theatre style to comfortably seat 70 22 Wooden Cabins

or can accommodate 40 for round- • Acres of Outdoor Events Space for table discussions. Teambuilding Activities, Parties, Family Days and Glamping

MotivAction www.motivaction.co.uk 01438 861821 [email protected] Aldenham Conferences & Meetings Onsite Facilities Clear your head: escape the office • Meeting & Events Cabins for up to 20 delegates Country Park, for important decisions and business • Breakout Rooms & Smaller Meeting meetings. , Herts Spaces Our charming wooden cabins • Farm Café

accommodate up to 30 people • On site Accommodation - 3 Wooden theatre style, whilst our gazebos and Cabins marquees located in the park, • Acres of Outdoor Events Space for provide a perfect backdrop for Teambuilding Activities, Parties, Family Days and Glamping country dining. Our events areas can cater for all manner of events.

MotivAction www.motivaction.co.uk 01438 861821 [email protected] Conference on Innovative & Unusual Break with tradition and hold your the wild side next company conference under canvas. Our quirky, sustainable venues, will get people talking, spark innovation and makes your event absolutely special.

Our wooden cabins are ideal for smaller, more intimate business meetings.

MotivAction www.motivaction.co.uk 01438 861821 [email protected] Away Days, Experiential & Creative Learning At Church Farm Ardeley and Each event can act as a basis for Team building is achieved through Team Building Aldenham Country Park, we are explicit facilitated learning; you fun rather than adversity, through able to offer a wide range of might want to use your own in- creative challenges rather than the & Experiential innovative, creative and enjoyable house facilitators, or use our team arduous and strenuous. team events. of experts.

Learning These events can be organised We help you build teams and as standalone activities or as improve cross-team co-operation part of a conference or learning to create unified organisations. programme.

MotivAction www.motivaction.co.uk 01438 861821 [email protected] Away Days, Unlimited Ideas • Experiential Team Challenges Team Building • Bridge Building • Farm Bake Off, Ready, Steady, Cook & Experiential • Film Making & Tablet Trails • Charity Bike & Barrow Builds Learning • TV Inspired – Crystal Labyrinth

MotivAction www.motivaction.co.uk 01438 861821 [email protected] Farm Activities Learn something new • Bee Keeping • Rural Crafts & Workshops • Butchery Masterclass • Herbalism • Preserving • Duck Herding • Wild Cooking • Archery • Foraging • Clay Shooting • Animal Husbandry • Blind 4X4 Driving • Egg Collecting • Axe Throwing • Country Pursuits • Farm Bake Off • Bushcraft

MotivAction www.motivaction.co.uk 01438 861821 [email protected] Leadership Creative Learning Environment Church Farm and Aldenham Events can range from half day Learning can be greatly enhanced & Team are natural settings for learning seminars to programmes over by utilising experiential leadership programmes, leadership several days. based activities, that enable leaders development, implicit team to explore horizons, communicate Development Our flexible learning venues offer bonding and fun events. insights, and inspire their people. quirky lecture, seminar and catering We will work with you to design an facilities together with cabins and event that brings results and doesn’t woodland spaces for reflection cost the earth. and debriefing.

MotivAction www.motivaction.co.uk 01438 861821 [email protected] Leadership Life Skills for Leaders… Orienteering: navigate the Hands on, real-time projects: Facilitation: We welcome your & Team Hertfordshire countryside, travelling tackle genuine projects with real trainers & facilitators, whilst we take from point to point in diverse and deadlines – projects are designed to care of the “critical non-essentials”. Development unfamiliar terrain, whilst moving create a strong sense of team work Alternatively we can recommend at speed. End destination Church whilst letting natural leaders build facilitators and design courses to Farm or Aldenham. and develop their ability, allowing all meet your objectives. participants to develop invaluable Bushcraft, Survival & Outward-bound and highly transferable future skills. Exercises: adventurous experiential learning activities that bring training Ideal for groups who prefer to do to life. Creative leadership - think something real. differently and inspire others.

MotivAction www.motivaction.co.uk 01438 861821 [email protected] Make A Shared experiences with a socially responsible outcome For sustainable responsible businesses events based on making a real Difference and leaders, a motivational team difference at both Aldenham and event working towards an admirable Church Farm. Events & CSR objective benefitting your people Projects vary according to the and others, helps to build bonds, season and can include building Programmes strengthen communication skills, and raised beds to enable wheel chair an understanding we can all make users to participate in growing a positive difference. and nurturing plants, to creating a Working with our Rural Care Team sensory garden. we can put together bespoke

MotivAction www.motivaction.co.uk 01438 861821 [email protected] Make A Projects include… Benefits • Bring the company values to life Wheels & beds Wild Learning • Boosts Employee Engagement - motivates Difference create wheelchair friendly raised beds design an Outdoor Classroom & inspires • Genuine, authentic projects engaging even Summer picnic Grow Together Events & CSR the cynical stage a party for young carers plant a Sensory Garden • Fresh, innovative & real challenges – every time • Encourages implicit leaderships - Considerate crafts Animal Hospital success isn’t guaranteed Programmes hands-on crafting with rural care construct an animal hospital • Flexibility to integrate with HR / L&D initiatives • Can improve public image Create a buzz Raise the Roof Graduate Programmes • Encourages Professional & Personal Growth build bee hives and start a colony build a pole barn in a day Leadership Development • Creates a positive and productive working Team Building Events Mother & Piglet Happy Hens environment maternity unit for pregnant sows make shelters and dust baths

MotivAction www.motivaction.co.uk 01438 861821 [email protected] Farm Family Fun in the fresh air Church Farm and Aldenham A Family Farm Day may include: Days Country Park are perfect venues for • Fun Fair Rides & Arena Acts families, festivals and fun. • It’s A Knockout & Sports Days • Country Pursuits Recognise your team and • Driving Activities customers and thank their families • Live Music & Bands and friends with a day on the farm. • Children’s Entertainers • Camping & Glamping Villages • Side Stalls

MotivAction www.motivaction.co.uk 01438 861821 [email protected] Farm Family Unique Activities • Feeding the Animals & Petting

Days • Tractor Rides

• Winne the Pooh & 100 Acre Wood (Aldenham Country Park)

• Farm Tours, Workshops & Demonstrations

• Farm Olympics & Knockout

MotivAction www.motivaction.co.uk 01438 861821 [email protected] Country Dining, Field to Fork Our picturesque Hertfordshire MotivAction can manage all Garden Parties venues are the perfect backdrops apsects of the event to create a for summer events. truly magical experience. From marquees, catering, decor and & Summer Whether you’re holding a summer styling to entertainment. picnic or looking to stage a vintage Picnics garden party, be inspired by the local countryside and rustic charm available at Church Farm or Aldenham Country Park.

MotivAction www.motivaction.co.uk 01438 861821 [email protected] Retreats, Get Back To Nature Augment the team building aspects Alternatively, hire one of our log Accommodation of your conference or event with an cabins equipped with log burner overnight stay under the stars. We (Church Farm only) located in & Glamping can provide a range of camping secluded spots around the farm. options from basic to luxury. Tipis, Yurts & Gypsy Caravans Camping in the Wild & Log Cabins Yurts & Gypsy Caravans have simple Enjoy the beauty of the farm and but luxurious interiors meaning that abundant wildlife by camping you can camp in the wild in a more under the stars in one of the six sophisticated fashion. woods on the Farm.

MotivAction www.motivaction.co.uk 01438 861821 [email protected] How else can Creative Conferences Celebrations, Awards & Parties Our production team has a wealth Events to thrill, involve, excite, we help you? of experience, having produced surprise and delight your guests. conferences in all variety of MotivAction can help design locations within the UK, and venues and deliver your programmes across Europe. and events requirements in the UK and globally. Our core Group Travel Awards & Team Building & services include: Incentives Development

Creative experiences tailored to We can help you build teams and your business to drive top sales or improve cross-team co-operation performance. to create unified organisations.

MotivAction www.motivaction.co.uk 01438 861821 [email protected] We organise conferences with • Full Service AV & Event Our end to end solutions take Conferences the delegate experience, and Production in every aspect of great design • Bespoke Set Design and delivery - building a deep your objectives in mind. that inspire, • Content Creation, Message understanding of your audience, Our expertise ranges from venue Management, Speaker Support helping define and refine objectives engage and finding, to AV production and • Audience Engagement and messages, building the direction, to on-site management Technology & IT Services audience journey step by step and motivate and creative content creation. • Production & Event evaluating impact. Management We can provide specialist support Call us when organising your next • Filming & Video Production for every aspect of your event, Roadshow, Awards Evening or including: Conference.

MotivAction www.motivaction.co.uk 01438 861821 [email protected] Whilst traditional, 5 star luxury sales attendees to give back to the Group Travel incentives can be effective at communities they visit, share meeting specific targeted drives, memorable and meaningful Awards & increasing sales and driving staff experiences. performance, there is a growing Whatever your travel incentive Incentives trend to provide more personalised requirement, contact us for experiences, indigenous to inspiration and ideas. the programme destination, incorporating activities that allow

MotivAction www.motivaction.co.uk 01438 861821 [email protected] MotivAction designs, plans and Everything from a grandiose fully Celebrations, organises evening events to themed production and event thrill, excite, surprise and delight management service, to the Awards & your guests. Whether you need provision of a single casino table a themed party to celebrate or entertainer. Parties Christmas or hitting sales targets, an We have the sets, AV, props, awards dinner to follow an annual themes, equipment, the conference or an interactive imagination and the UK’s leading evening of varied entertainment, party planning producers. we have the experience and resources to create the right night for you.

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