Birmingham Future Leadership Team Away Day

Early on 27 August the Leadership Team met at Mills & Reeve before travelling to Cannock to take on the Go Ape course. After the initial embarrassment of putting on what were some very unflattering harnesses, the team got down to business and climbed the first rope ladder. It was a gruelling 2 hours of balancing, stretching and hanging on for dear life whilst hoping that the safety equipment would work, but the team got through it together.
Once finished at Go Ape, the team returned to Mills & Reeve for lunch and an afternoon workshop session based on cohesiveness within Birmingham Future and with other organisations. This helped the Leadership Team to consider how they could work more effectively together for the benefit of Birmingham Future.
At the end of the day, Richard Brennan and Jo Sollom joined the Leadership Team for a feedback session, and finally the Birmingham Forward Board members along with the team at the office of Birmingham Future joined the group for drinks in order for them all to get to know each other a bit better, and to trade stories on the hardest part of the Go Ape course (don’t mention the rings to Darren Walker).

This was an excellent team building day, so special thanks must go to Amanda Porter for arranging everything.”