We all know what it’s like organising the work Christmas party, so we’re here to make this year’s (slightly different) work party hassle free!
It’s half way through the year now so we can’t avoid the C word. And although it may be strange not staggering home from the usual dinner / ball / pub trip / drinks in the office that you may be used to, online experiences can be huge fun and are a great way to include more of your team (even those abroad) in the fun.
These special experiences are brought to you by incredible experts and teams of fun and friendly faces that will guarantee you have a great socially-distanced, virtual party. With beautiful, luxury packages and gift boxes delivered to your office or colleagues homes, you can drink, taste or create as we say goodbye to the weird and wonderful year of 2020.
If you’ve got new joiners & company inductions, it’s always great to virtually hang out with the friendly faces behind our new WFH laptop screens. Online experiences are a great way for new colleagues to feel a part of the team, especially if you haven’t got your usual office set-up.
When we did a survey in June, 89% of our members said they missed the social interactions and events that came as a perk for work. These online experiences are a great way to increase the engagement and motivation of new teams and bring a little bit of normality back to work life.
We’ve got a wonderful array of virtual workshops and experiences for you and your team to relax and enjoy (and finally talk about something that’s not work-related…)
As we start appreciating the value of a night in rather than a night out, why not bring the bar to your home and experience your very own virtual cocktail making masterclass!
Learn the secret craft of mixology from incredible cocktail experts for the perfect virtual event – there’s nothing that brings a team together quite like a mutual cocktail shaking!
Whether that’s enjoying a work social, client entertainment or corporate party, you and your team can enjoy a fun and relaxing evening all without the trouble of finding your way home!
Forget about awkward ice-breakers and dreaded Zoom quizzes, we’re all about fun, virtual experiences to keep the morale high with your work team. Online team building has just leveled up!
With an array of incredible virtual hosts and online experiences crafted specifically with online team building in mind there’s so much more to out there than you’d imagine. Keeping in contact with teams working from home will help boost morale, support, motivation and productivity.
Whether you want to work together in a game show or create some healthy competition in the kitchen, these virtual masterclasses and workshops are perfect for getting the team together!
Virtual tasting events are getting better and better – which is good news now many of us could be working from home for a while. And the boozey ones are a great example of some of the best on offer right now.
We’ve curated a great selection of online tasting experiences complete with incredible experts that are here to create a great virtual party for you and your colleagues! Whether it’s wine, beer, whisky, cocktails, gin or cheese these are some of the best online tasting experiences to keep your work crew happy.
PS. The best thing? You don’t have to find your way home or look after the person that just always gets a lil’ too drunk!
The away day isn’t just a jolly but a chance for reflection, planning and coming together as a team.
Increasingly these kind of set-piece events are happening at least in part – if not completely – online. And the online away day can be stuffy, slow and unimaginative. But it doesn’t have to be!
As well as planning a great interactive schedule there are more and more online experiences that are perfect for a virtual corporate away day and a great way to thank the team and give them something different to talk about and remember!
So if you want to make your online away day stand out from the crowd – check out our list of ideas perfect for online corporate away days.
The move from traditional entertaining to online entertaining was one that was happening anyway but with the COVID-19 pandemic it’s accelerated: the world of online client entertainment is upon us and it looks good.
They’re a great way to get that all-important face time in and stand out from your competitors who are no doubt trying to schmooze their way into your client’s good books. From virtual wine tastings to online cook-a-longs there are more and more ways that you can connect with your clients from the comfort of your own home!
And there are plenty of other benefits to entertaining clients virtually – you can get people together from across the globe for a fraction of the cost and in a fraction of the time, reduce travel and be able to roll straight into bed once you’re finished!
And just to be clear, we’re not saying that in-person entertainment is dead – of course not – but virtual client entertainment is definitely here to stay. Just check out some of the best online client entertainment ideas below and you’ll see what we mean
Just because the team are stuck at home doesn’t mean you can’t have fun together. The summer party is moving online (and it’s not a quiz).
There are some fantastic, innovative experiences out there that could make this summer party one of the most memorable (until you have too much champagne and forget everything of course).
From virtual cheese and wine tastings with everything delivered to online pasta making classes, summer picnic hampers and incredible cook-a-longs.
It’s time to dust off your party outfit (or at least the top half) and welcome in the virtual summer party with open arms. Check out the best online work summer party ideas
With hordes of us now working from home and many of us set to stay doing so – working out what you do for your next team work socials has become even more difficult.
Luckily though there’s an ever-growing number of incredible virtual experiences perfect for work events, socials and impressing your colleagues. So we’ve gathered the best online work socials in one place just for you (no worries – thank us later).
And far from online works socials being an excuse just to have a bit of fun, it’s proven that sharing experiences is one of the best ways to build relationships in a team or with clients.
So what are you waiting for? Check out some of the best online work socials for teams working from home below.
This is an incredibly difficult time for everyone and we know things aren’t easy for our members or our experience partners right now. The world of experiences has been hit hard.
But we’re determined that experiences live on! So we’ve got our heads down to make sure we can keep the fun alive for our members and help our partners as much as we can. Check out what we’re doing below.
And once this is all over we promise we’ll be here with bucket loads of incredible (out of home!) experiences for you to win and enjoy. By god you’ll have earned it!
In the meantime, stay home and stay safe xx
What We’re Doing
Bringing you At-Home Experiences
To keep the experiences flowing through lockdown and help support our wonderful experience partners we’ve launched our ‘at-home’ experiences.
From online bread-making masterclasses over Zoom to a painting masterclass delivered to your door we’ve got all kinds of experiences to help keep you entertained and maybe even learn a new skill!
And we’ll keep adding more and more so watch this space!
Extending Redemption Periods on Existing Vouchers
Got some AVA Experience vouchers that you haven’t used yet and worried you won’t be able to use them because they’re going to run out of date?
Don’t fear! We’ve worked with our experience providers and extended the redemption periods on all outstanding vouchers so you can keep hold of your voucher and use it once this is all over.
We’ll continue to monitor the situation and if vouchers need to be extended further we’ll make that happen.
Here to Answer your Questions (or for a chat)
We’re still here Monday – Friday, 9am – 6pm!
Drop us an email at [email protected] or ping us on the live chat on our website if you’ve got any questions
