Silver Session

The Hunting for Hull Challenge is a new service for companies and organisations in the city, aimed at improving individuals team working skills in an entertaining and informative way.

Individuals work in small teams to complete a themed trail around parts of the city centre and Old Town. They complete the trail by answering clues and completing various tasks such as finding objects and taking photographs. In doing so, participants will be employing a number of skills such as time management, coordination and communication with team members, lateral thinking and decision making.

The trail and feedback session afterwards will be fun and informative as each theme is developed further by experts brought in by PFH Productions. In this way, participants’ perceptions about the city are also challenged and changed.

1.Working practices inside departments and between departments can sometimes become routine and undynamic. Requiring individuals to work together closely in a novel and challenging environment acts as a catalyst to established practices and helps refresh and reinvigour working relationships.

2.All businesses face challenges and moments when the unexpected happens. By taking the employee out of their everyday comfort zones, the Hunting for Hull Challenge can be used to simulate these moments of crisis or extreme challenge in an organisation.

3.The Hunting for Hull challenge can also be used as a motivational tool, rewarding employees for their contributions to their organisations and generating goodwill towards the company.

4.The Hunting for Hull challenge is also an educational process, in particular challenging perceptions about the city. Following the Challenge, employees will look at the city in a completely different light. This can have positive effects on staff retention and motivation.

Introduction to Hull – This hunt is ideal for those people who are new to the city and want to know a little more about Hull's people, places and history.

Introduction to Hull (Non Native English Speakers) – This hunt is ideal for those people who are new to the city and whose mother tongue is not English. This will provide participants with an entertaining first step in understanding both the present day city and its historic past.

Maritime Hull – Hull developed as a maritime trading town and can claim to be at the centre of the world’ first world wide web, the sea. This hunt uncovers the city’s past and present as a maritime city, revealing both surprises and successes.

Royal Hull – Far from being away from the eyes of the nation’s monarchs, Hull has been central to the plans and aspirations of kings and queens for the last 700 years. In this hunt, we find out how and why monarchs have wanted to get their hands on Hull and why it really is the King’s Town upon Hull!

Pioneering Hull – Ever since its merchants ventured further north than any other port in the middle ages, Hull has been at the cutting edge of a vast number of developments. This hunt gives reasons why the city really can call itself ‘The Pioneering City’.

Commercial Hull – This hunt explores some of Hull's best known companies, both in the present and the past.

It is envisaged that there will be 3 or 4 people in each team. The minimum number of people for each session will be 12.

A small or medium sized company may wish to send either an individual or a team of 4 to compete with teams from other companies. A larger company may wish to have a Challenge purely with its own staff.

Group of 12 - £35 per person
Group of 15 - £32.50 per person
Group of 18 - £30 per person

Evening Session (3.30pm – 7.30pm)

Evening sessions are designed for employees from one company. The aim is to mix the treasure hunt with a strong social element.

Following the hunt, a sit down meal in a Hull culinary establishment is served, giving particpants the time to reflect on their experience and enjoy themselves.

Group of 12 - £35 per person
Group of 15 - £32.50 per person
Group of 18 - £30 per person

“We all really enjoyed the morning, certainly better for us than sitting in an enclosed office and more informative about Hull and it’s Maritime History!”
Jan Atkins, Princes Quay

“We were saying on the way home how much we had enjoyed the hunt. I thought the idea of taking the photographs was excellent as it added interest en route and it was funny to see everybody’s photos when we returned.”
Di Gabera, Golding Computer Services Ltd

“The trail was interesting and informative, but more importantly it was fun and helped our teamworking skills.”
Nick Pontone, Hull Business Forum

We all enjoyed ourselves,while at the same time I think a lot of us learnt new things about Hull that we hadn't been aware of before. I also think that it was extremely useful from the team-building side of things.
James Russell, Goodwin Development Trust