If your office staff feel enclosed, take them out into nature and let them monkey around for a day. Go Ape is an award winning high wire forest adventure course of rope bridges, tarzan swings and zip slides up to 40 feet up in the trees of the UK’s forests. The company says it wants to encourage people to live life more adventurously. Swingers are fitted with a climbing harness, given instructions, and then trek from tree to tree high above the forest floor.
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If you’re one of those people that wouldn’t build a tree house for fear of hurting your floral friend, Go Ape ensure work closely with conservationists, arboralists and other specialists to ensure that they protect our natural playground. The adventure structures are designed to allow trees to grow unrestricted and ultra-sound monitoring checks the internal health of the trees used.
There are 12 courses around the UK, so why now convince your boss to take the office and you can have exclusive use of one of their sites as a corporate package. Go Ape say their experience is a unique combination of team building and deep sense of personal achievement. But to be honest, it sounds like an absolute laugh. Prices range from approximately £50 - £130 (+VAT) per person.
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