# o3e

> o3e is a certified B Corporation running charity team building events across the UK, Europe and the USA. Teams’ build bikes, wheelchairs, scooters, skateboards and other equipment, and a charity keeps what they build, delivered almost always, the same day.

o3e run charity team building events. A team builds something real, usually bikes,
wheelchairs, scooters, skateboards or musical instruments, and a charity keeps what
they built, almost always the same day. Groups run from 6 to 2000 people, anywhere
in the UK and also across Europe and the USA.

Founded 2011. Certified B Corporation. Phone 0330 113 7170, email hello@o3e.co.uk.
Events start from £18 per person.
DIY kits, which are posted out for a team to run themselves, start from £595 plus VAT.

## Start here

- [Home](https://o3e.co.uk/): What o3e do, and a tool that recommends three events with prices
- [About o3e](https://o3e.co.uk/about): o3e is a certified B Corporation running team building events where everything your team builds is given to a charity the same day
- [How it works](https://o3e.co.uk/how-it-works): You tell us roughly how many people and roughly when
- [Event planning](https://o3e.co.uk/event-planning): If you are building a conference, an away day or a company offsite, this is the hour that does not feel like filler
- [For agencies](https://o3e.co.uk/agencies): We work with event agencies, DMCs and production companies booking on behalf of a client
- [Contact](https://o3e.co.uk/contact): A rough headcount and a rough date is enough to get a price

## Events

All 23 events. Every one ends with the charity taking away what was built.

- [SolarBuddy](https://o3e.co.uk/events/solarbuddy): A hands on team challenge where participants learn about energy poverty and work together to build solar powered lights that will support children and communities without reliable access to electricity. 6 to 2000 people, about 1 hours, from £65 per person.
- [Flying Start](https://o3e.co.uk/events/flying-start): Build a drone, write the code that flies it, then race it. The drones go to primary, secondary and Special Education Needs and Disability (SEND) schools for STEM lessons long after your team has gone home. 6 to 300 people, about 2 to 2.5 hours, from £90 per person.
- [Future Forward](https://o3e.co.uk/events/future-forward): Build and code a hovercraft, race it round a course, then give it to a school for STEM lessons. 6 to 2000 people, about 1.5 to 2.5 hours, from £85 per person.
- [OnBoard Skateboard Build](https://o3e.co.uk/events/onboard): Design and build skateboards for children and young carers living in poverty, or youth projects where a skateboard can engage kids living on the edge. Absorbing, almost meditative work. 6 to 500 people, about 2 to 2.5 hours, from £60 per person.
- [Small Group Challenges](https://o3e.co.uk/events/small-group-challenges): Built for teams of six to twenty, with the same donation at the end. 6 to 20 people, about 1.5 to 2 hours, from £80 per person.
- [Benevohunt](https://o3e.co.uk/events/benevohunt): A GPS powered team challenge combining exploration, problem solving, fun missions and acts of benevolence, all while creating a positive impact for a local charity or community organisation. 8 to 1000 people, about 1 to 2.5 hours, from £35 per person.
- [Charity Bike Build](https://o3e.co.uk/events/charity-bike-build): Teams get the knowledge and use their new found skills to build a bike specifically for an individual or cycling programme. Add essential items like helmet, lock and lights through further team challenges and hand the bike over to someone who needs it. 8 to 2000 people, about 2 to 2.5 hours, from £80 per person.
- [Clean Air Machines](https://o3e.co.uk/events/clean-air-machines): Air pollution is the greatest environmental health risk of our tim, a silent killer that claims more than 8.1 million lives every year. Your team building a clean air machine will make an instant difference to someone's life. 8 to 200 people, about 1.5 to 2 hours, from £80 per person.
- [Getting the Balance](https://o3e.co.uk/events/getting-the-balance): Earn the parts through six challenges, build scooters, and give them to children for the school run. 8 to 2000 people, about 2.5 hours, from £70 per person.
- [Fun House Challenge](https://o3e.co.uk/events/the-fun-house-challenge): Working to a brief written by children, your teams saw, build and paint a wooden playhouse. It goes to a children's centre, hospice or refuge, where staff use it in therapy, as well as play. 8 to 400 people, about 2 to 2.5 hours, from £100 per person.
- [The Great Philanthropic Challenge](https://o3e.co.uk/events/the-great-philanthropic-challenge): Six Crystal Maze style challenges where every win drops another item into a care package. The receiving charity decides what goes in. 631 delivered so far. 8 to 2000 people, about 2 to 2.5 hours, from £70 per person.
- [The Hand Project](https://o3e.co.uk/events/the-hand-project): Assemble mechanical prosthetic hands using your non dominant hand. Each one goes to an upper limb amputee in a country with no health service to fall back on. 8 to 200 people, about 2 hours, from £80 per person.
- [Back to School](https://o3e.co.uk/events/back-to-school): Assemble school kits and equipment for children who start term without them. 10 to 500 people, about 1 to 1.5 hours, from £80 per person.
- [Charity Building Challenges](https://o3e.co.uk/events/charity-building-challenges): A short format build, ideal when you only have an hour inside a conference or away day. 10 to 1000 people, about 1 hours, from £80 per person.
- [Charity Trike Build](https://o3e.co.uk/events/charity-trike-build): A hands on team challenge where participants work together to build children’s trikes, complete fun challenges and create a meaningful donation for a local charity or community organisation. 10 to 300 people, about 2 to 2.5 hours, from £100 per person.
- [Climate Change Challenge](https://o3e.co.uk/events/climate-change-challenge): A high energy, fact paced set of team challenges designed to refocus minds on the climate crises and the need for immediate action, the result is a donation to a charity working to make a difference in this area. 10 to 300 people, about 2 to 2.5 hours, from £80 per person.
- [Get Ahead Challenge](https://o3e.co.uk/events/get-ahead-challenge): Ten people, ten headboard panels, one design. Your team assembles a complete bed for a child who may never have had one to call their own. 10 to 300 people, about 2.5 hours, from £80 per person.
- [Make Sense Team Challenge](https://o3e.co.uk/events/make-sense-team-challenge): Build sensory story bags, developed with Joanna Grace of The Sensory Projects, for play therapy with people living with autism, a learning disability or dementia. 10 to 250 people, about 2.5 to 3 hours, from £80 per person.
- [Live Wire - The Adapted Musical Instrument](https://o3e.co.uk/events/musical-challenge): The Adapted musical instrument any one can build and anyone can play. Build it, code it and decorate it, then play it in a fun finale. The adapted instruments go to Special Educational Needs and Disabilities schools (SENDS), hospitals and music groups. 10 to 250 people, about 2 to 2.5 hours, from £80 per person.
- [Performance Wheelchair Challenge](https://o3e.co.uk/events/performance-wheelchair-challenge): Our founders favourite. Take part in thought provoking Paralympic inspired challenges to get the parts and assemble sports wheelchairs that unlock a lifetime love of sport for people with disabilities. 10 to 300 people, about 2 to 3 hours, from £110 per person.
- [Scooter Dash](https://o3e.co.uk/events/scooter-dash): You have a limited time in your agenda and you want to give back! Scooter Dash brings your group together in a fast, thoughtful and fun 50 - 60 minutes. High energy with a brilliant outcome. 10 to 500 people, about 1 hours, from £80 per person.
- [Virtual Charity Team Building](https://o3e.co.uk/events/virtual-team-building): A facilitated build run over video for teams that are not in one place, with kits posted out beforehand. 10 to 500 people, about 1 to 1.5 hours, from £18 per person.
- [Funky Furniture Challenge](https://o3e.co.uk/events/funky-furniture-challenge): Design and build furniture for community spaces, shelters and support centres. 12 to 200 people, about 2 to 2.5 hours, from £80 per person.

## DIY kits

Posted out for a team to run themselves, with no crew and no venue needed.

- [DIY Clean Air Kits](https://o3e.co.uk/kits/clean-air): Cleaner air, built by your team From £595 plus VAT for 1 kits, up to 6 people.
- [DIY Mechanical Hands](https://o3e.co.uk/kits/hand-project): Change someone's life From £950 plus VAT for 2 kits, up to 6 people.
- [DIY Adapted Musical Instruments](https://o3e.co.uk/kits/musical-instruments): Bring music to everyone From £1,385 plus VAT for 2 kits, up to 12 people.
- [DIY Scooter Donation Kits](https://o3e.co.uk/kits/scooter): Big impact in just one hour From £1,255 plus VAT for 2 kits, up to 12 people.
- [DIY Skateboard Donation Kits](https://o3e.co.uk/kits/skateboard): Unveil your inner artist From £995 plus VAT for 4 kits, up to 12 people.

## By industry

- [Professional Services](https://o3e.co.uk/sectors/professional-services): Professional services teams spend the year measured in billable hours, which makes a day off the clock a hard thing to justify
- [Finance](https://o3e.co.uk/sectors/finance): Financial services firms are held to a higher standard on what they give back, and rightly so
- [Pharma and Health](https://o3e.co.uk/sectors/pharma-and-health): People who work in health already understand why equipment matters
- [Tech and Software](https://o3e.co.uk/sectors/tech-and-software): Tech teams are often spread across offices and time zones, which makes the days everyone is in the same room expensive and rare

## By who is booking

- [HR and People teams](https://o3e.co.uk/roles/hr-and-people): You are the one who gets asked what the day achieved
- [Leadership teams](https://o3e.co.uk/roles/leadership): Most CSR spending produces a paragraph
- [Executive Assistants](https://o3e.co.uk/roles/executive-assistants): You are the one who has to make the day happen and the one who gets called if it does not

## By city

- [London](https://o3e.co.uk/locations/london): We run charity team building events across London, in the City, Canary Wharf, the West End and everywhere in between
- [Birmingham](https://o3e.co.uk/locations/birmingham): We run charity team building events across Birmingham, in the city centre, the Business District and the NEC
- [Manchester](https://o3e.co.uk/locations/manchester): We run charity team building events across Manchester, in Spinningfields, MediaCity and the city centre hotels
- [Edinburgh](https://o3e.co.uk/locations/edinburgh): We run charity team building events across Edinburgh, in the New Town, the conference venues and the West End
- [Glasgow](https://o3e.co.uk/locations/glasgow): We run charity team building events across Glasgow, in the city centre, the SEC and the Merchant City

## Notes

- Prices are a guide and depend on group size, the build and the venue. The site quotes a real figure in about a minute.
- Everything built at an o3e event is donated. There is no version where it is kept.
- The charity is matched to the location of the event and named before the day.
- o3e is a certified B Corporation, independently audited rather than self declared.