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Many companies offer variations of bike building events which allow your team or company to build teamwork and collaboration skills while building bikes that are then ultimately donated to needy kids via a nonprofit or charity. This is a great way to build teams while doing good.

The Charity Bike Build

Welcome to the home of the world’s most popular team building program – The Charity Bike Build charity team building event! From the creative mind of Quixote Consulting founder Rob Fletcher, our consultants have helped hundreds of companies just like yours build bikes for kids for charity - more than 10,000 bicycles and counting - around the world.

Learn More and get a price quote from this team building company: http://quixoteconsulting.com/teambuilding_descrip/bikebuild.html

Build-A-Bike Team Building Workshop

The Build-A-Bike Team Building Workshop® and charity event is a brainy, challenging, program where your group is divided into teams to solve specific challenges in order to build bicycles for young children from either The YMCA, The Boys and Girls Club, or some other worthy children’s charity in your local area! Remember that first, brand-new bicycle that you got when you were a tot? For many of these kids, this will be the first bike they will have ever owned, and your gift means Freedom to these young people. This is the original bicycle team building event! Each group of participants has puzzles to solve, codes to decipher, and secrets to unlock in order to acquire the resources that they need (part by part) to build a bicycle. Challenges are discovered along the way that must be overcome in order to accomplish their goal. The ultimate conclusion to the event is the understanding that, each component of a whole group (company) is interdependent and can’t work silo-ed from the other components of the company. When we work together, we accomplish more — faster! This will be “the most fun” that your attendees will ever have — working!

Learn More and get a price quote from this team building company: http://www.leadersinstitute.com/team-building/bicycle-team-building/

The Charity Bike Build – Together We Care

In this terrific build a bike for charity event, teams armed with wrenches and enthusiasm as they race to construct the ultimate human-powered, no-gasoline-needed rocket: children’s bicycles. From the creative folks at TeamBonding – our facilitators have helped hundreds of companies just like yours build bikes for kids for charity (more than 12,000 bicycles and counting) around the world. One of your fondest childhood memories is probably the day you received your very first bicycle for your birthday or Christmas, wrapped with a big bow around the handlebars. You probably spent all summer outside, cycling around with your friends, or going on rides through the woods with your family. But for the many impoverished families throughout America, it can be tough to afford the cost of food and rent, let alone luxuries like toys and bikes. Although bicycling can help children build coordination and self-esteem, and provides a wonderful source of exercise, many kids are forced to go without this cherished childhood pastime. For most of the children involved, typically ages 7-9, this will be their first bicycle! We partner with charities such as Boys and Girls Clubs and Bikes for Tykes. We’re also happy to partner with a local charity of your choice.

Learn More and get a price quote from this team building company: http://www.teambonding.com/programs/build-a-bike/

Wheels of the World

Do you recall your first bicycle? Remember the fun, the adventure, the freedom? Wheels for the World offers your team the chance to pass those feelings on to a child by building and donating bikes for kids. Anyone can assemble a bike (well, almost anyone) if they receive all of the parts, a few tools, and the instructions. But, in Wheels for the World, teams must earn the parts by participating in fun team building challenges. Each activity is funnier than the last in this energy-filled session. During this team building activity, teams work to earn the front tire, seat, handle bars, and pedals, they are simultaneously building teamwork, strengthening relationships and developing trust. (By the way, a cycling professional will be on hand to make sure the bikes are assembled properly.) The biggest surprise of the day is yet to come. Once the bikes are assembled, you will have the opportunity to decorate them with a colorful, personalized card and lots of balloons, beads and stickers. Teams perform a fun skit or commercial about their bike at the end and everyone thinks this is the grand finale. But wait… We line up the bikes in the front of the room so that your team can admire their handiwork. Then, participants close their eyes and are told to imagine the looks on the children’s faces when they receive their new bikes. But what if they didn’t have to imagine? Shhhhh, don’t tell say anything, but we will make arrangements to bring the children to your team building program where your staff will present the bikes directly to kids. Kids are jumping for joy… adults get a little misty-eyed (that’s right, even the big strong guys)! In Wheels for the World, your team will share a heart-felt bonding experience and know that they’ve done something truly impactful for the community.

Learn More and get a price quote from this team building company: http://teambuildersplus.com/team-building/wheels-for-the-world

Bike Build Donation

THE BEST NEW BIKE BUILD IDEA IN 20 YEARS! Bike Build Donations are one of our most popular CSR programs. After organizing and delivering the best Bike Builds in America for the past 20 years, we proudly announce the future of this very popular giveback program. With help from our SmartHunts® App and a ton of Apple iPads®, we have created the most fun, fast-paced, hi-energy, hi-tech Bike Build program in the world! Our Bike Build Donation now feature Apple iPads® delivering text, audio and video clues, exciting gaming challenges, and the ability to capture and save all your memories of this truly heartwarming event with photos and video of your team in action. Our Bike Build Donation is one of our clients' most popular philanthropic team building programs, and every bicycle your group builds comes with a cool helmet and a lock for safety and security. After a fun icebreaker to get everyone “in gear,” your group will be formed into teams and receive their tool kits and iPads. Teams with correct answers to their iPad challenges will be rewarded with a trip to our bike store, to get the parts they need for the build. Teams will utilize the tools of organization, delegation, communication - and some mechanical skills - to build their bikes and complete the fun challenges presented on their iPads. After the bikes have been built, our bike mechanic will inspect them, so your teams can race them on an Obstacle Course set up nearby. After the race, teams will add bike accessories and personal touch decorations. At the conclusion of the program, your group can present these beautiful, finished bicycles to deserving children - accompanied by a local charity representative who will address your group and thank you for your donation. If your group would like to have children attend the bike build program, it is predicated on the program ending after school hours and the charity’s ability to provide transportation for the children and families to our program location. We can work with any charitable organization your group chooses - or we can engage one of the many charities we use, including Big Brothers Big Sisters of America and the Boys and Girls Club of America. 
Our Bike Build Donation will strengthen your team and touch their hearts - while putting smiles on faces of the children receiving your generous donation. It will be a day that all will remember. An event where everyone wins!

Learn More and get a price quote from this team building company: http://www.bestcorporateevents.com/Pages/btb_program_detail.lasso?-KeyValue=103

Turning Wheels for Kids - Corporate Bike Builds

Are you looking for a way to energize your employees and give back to the community? TurningWheels For Kids would love to be a part of your next team building experience and due to our 501 (c ) 3 status your donation is COMPLETELY TAX deductible. What we provide: Bikes, Tools, Team Building Exercises (All exercises are related to the bike building experience), Children to receive newly built bikes, Volunteers. What we need: A Location, People to Build, A Way to Dispose of Trash.

Learn More and get a price quote from this team building company: http://turningwheelsforkids.com/corporate-bike-build/

Bikes for Tykes

Imagine the sense of achievement your team members will feel after building a bike from scratch! When they find out the bikes will be donated to a local kids’ charity, this fun and challenging exercise takes on a deeper meaning and gives everyone a warm, fuzzy glow. Teams will complete a series of tasks and challenges in order to earn the pieces of their bike. Once all pieces have been collected, building the bike can begin. When the bike is fully built, each team must bring their bike to a qualified mechanic who will give the bike a “once over” and report on any defects to the judges. The first team to have their bike built and approved will be crowned champions for the day. Once the bikes are complete, each team finds out that their bike is to be donated to a local kids’ charity. Medals are presented and the kids collect their bikes.

Learn More and get a price quote from this team building company: http://www.corporatechallenge.com.au/team-building/bikes-tykes

Bikes For Tikes

What is Bikes for Tikes? The Bikes for Tikes training is a customized workshop with one of the following learning outcomes: Improved team performance, Enhanced sales techniques, Polished customer service, or Improved leadership skills. After a briefing, including theory, assessments and reflection, your team begins a series of tailor-made, problem-solving simulations. Debriefs follow each activity to discuss strengths and areas of improvement. Subsequent simulations provide practice and improvement of new skills. After each simulation, participants are rewarded with parts to a brand new bicycle. After the group has accumulated all necessary parts and tools to build the bike, the timed assembly begins. Underprivileged children are selected in the city of your training through our partnership with the Boys and Girls Club of America. Neither the team nor the children realize they are about to share a very special experience. Important: Participants do not know their efforts will benefit children from the community and the children do not know they will be given brand new bikes. …We ensure this element of surprise by renaming the program one of the following: The Nuts and Bolts of Sales; The Nuts and Bolts of Teams, The Nuts and Bolts of Leadership or, The Nuts and Bolts of Customer Service. Your team can know the learning outcomes of the training, but keep the bikes and children a secret. Shhhh! What are the benefits of Bikes for Tikes? Participants gain an amazing sense of organizational pride, better understanding of purpose and improved rapport with co-workers, a deeper commitment and motivation to individual and organizational goals, and a feeling of connection with the community and the children. Participants also gain a new understanding of and commitment to better teamwork, improved sales, enhanced customer service and/or superior leadership depending on the focus you choose. What you get comes from what you give. You will be donating one brand new DiamondBack™ bicycle, one helmet and one lock for every five people in your group.

Learn More and get a price quote from this team building company: http://www.odysseyteambuilding.com/team_building/helping_odysseys/bikes_for_tikes.php

Objectives

• Varies by company

Group Size

• Medium
• Large

Materials

• Bikes
• Tools

Set Up

• This is generally facilitated by a consulting company

Directions

• This is generally facilitated by a consulting company

Debrief

• This is generally facilitated by a consulting company

Alternatives

• This is generally facilitated by a consulting company

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