Open Gates Outdoors works with businesses in the outdoors to...
provide mountain guiding to your teams anywhere in the UK, including but not limited to the Peak District, to improve the wellbeing and morale of your teams,
support your charity fundraising activities by leading a sponsored walk in aid of your business's chosen charity,
provide outdoor team building activities to improve the teamwork and leadership skills in your teams through outdoor strategy games,
provide life coaching to employees,
contribute greater social value to the communities your business serves, and
promote Sheffield as a place to work and to do business.
Get in touch to find out more about how Open Gates can support you in developing your business.
What our partners say...
"We had an incredible three days with Open Gates Outdoors, engaging in a range of activities including pond building, mapping, and calculating our hikes, strategy games, and learning valuable life skills in the forest school. It was fantastic to see our new apprentices grow closer as they tackled these challenges together. This experience was both challenging and rewarding, which made it a terrific team building opportunity.
I want to say a huge thank you to George from Open Gates Outdoors for helping us explore nature, and being our guide and teacher..”
Learning & Development Coordinator, Gripple UK and Ireland
"What an incredible adventure with Open Gates Outdoors! Over three days I was truly pushed out of my comfort zone and challenged with various activities. The core skills I developed during this programme will be invaluable throughout my time at Gripple. It was truly a rewarding and impactful experience. A huge thank you to George for being an incredibly supportive and inspiring leader.”
Graduate Trainee on Commercial Pathway at Gripple UK and Ireland
"From our first meeting with George, it was evident that Grow and Open Gates shared a synergy and common values, which strengthened our desire to collaborate and support each other’s missions. We deeply appreciated the valuable introduction to Gripple and the chance to work with Open Gates on a three-day programme as part of Gripple’s apprenticeship induction. The organisation of the programme by Open Gates was outstanding, marked by clear communication and considered planning. George’s energy and professionalism greatly enhanced the experience for both us and the Gripple participants. We look forward to future collaborations with Open Gates.”
Lesley Ellerby, Senior Marketing & Fundraising Manager, Grow
Mountain Guiding and fundraising challenges
Open Gates Outdoors is qualified and insured to provide mountain guiding to groups in the Peak District or any other mountainous areas of the UK. This could include walks tailored to suit the needs and preferences of your teams or established mountain routes such as the Edale Skyline or the Ethels in the Peak District or routes in other areas of the UK such as the Welsh 3,000s in Eyri (previously Snowdonia) or the George Fisher Tea Round in the Lake District.
These experiences will have a direct impact on the wellbeing, morale and resourcefulness of your teams. They can also have an added benefit of raising funds for your business's chosen charity. We can help you organise and fund raise for a sponsored walk and lead the walk itself. Longer routes can be completed as a relay which adds to the team dynamic.
These activities are shown to increase employee wellbeing and to improve morale and productivity to the benefit of both employees and businesses.
Outdoor team building
Our qualified and experienced practitioners can work with your business to develop and deliver a programme of outdoor activities that develops skills in their leaders and teams.
In addition to mountain guiding we can provide;
strategic team games led by a practitioner and publisher with over 40 years experience working in many different countries and different sizes of business, and/or
activities based on Forest School principles such as foraging, shelter building, or wild cooking led by a qualified Forest School practitioner.
Life coaching
Open Gates Outdoors is qualified by the Institute of Leaders and Managers (ILM) to deliver life coaching specifically in an organisational context.
We can work with your teams and individual employees to support them to identify appropriate personal or professional targets and we will further support them to identify actions which will support the achievement of those targets.
The outdoors is recognised as being the perfect location for these conversations because it is neutral, discrete and encourages creative thinking.
Contribute greater Social Value
Open Gates Outdoors is committed to making a contribution from all payments made by business partners towards the cost of it providing its services to third sector partners for free. Open Gates Outdoors' business partners will have the opportunity to select the third sector partner to sponsor, or we can work with our business partners to identify an appropriate community partner for them to sponsor.
We work with business partners to involve their teams in working with third sector groups to directly improve or maintain outdoor spaces in their community for example by litter picking, tree planting or maintenance of a local environment.
Promote Sheffield as a place to Work and do Business
Open Gates Outdoors can work with business partners to offer activities which promote Sheffield as a place to work or to do business to potential customers, contractors or employees visiting Sheffield. Sheffield is “the outdoor city” and is famously known to have a “beautiful frame”. Accessibility to the countryside and wilderness is a unique selling point of our city. Sheffield also has a rich urban history and manufacturing heritage. Open Gates Outdoors has a unique understanding of Sheffield’s rural and urban character. We can help you ensure that people your business wants to engage with see Sheffield in its best light.
Open Gates Outdoors’ Prices for Business Partners
Open Gates Outdoors is a not for profit company registered at Companies House as a Community Interest Company. From every contract with business partners we will use funds to benefit the community by providing outdoor services to third sector partners for free (which our business partners will effectively sponsor) and thereby widen participation in the outdoors.
Open Gates Outdoors’ prices for business activities are negotiated on a case by case basis based on the nature of your requirements, the number of activities booked and the size of your group. Please contact Open Gates Outdoors to discuss an appropriate price for your activities.