Corporate Events

At Auberge we offer two different sorts of corporate events. Both can be tailored to meet your exact requirements but most importantly all corporate functions here combine fun with a real opportunity to get to know each other in a relaxing environment.
Corporate events are normally held at our Gerrards Cross site. From early 2010 they will be held at our new purpose built Chocolate Auberge facility in Chesham, Buckinghamshire (which is located on the Metropolitan Line). We can also run these events at your premises if desired.

Chocolate Workshop

Cost £30 per person

Time: two and a half hours. Minimum of 8 people/maximum 25 - this is designed for attendees to proactively get involved in making chocolate in a light-hearted way and comprises of:

• Glass of wine/coffee/ tea and chocolates to welcome you.
• A short talk on the origins of chocolate and a tasting session with a quick quiz to check you are paying attention!
• Then you get to make your own chocolate shape using a mould. This has to be decorated using lots of different coloured chocolate and your god-given tools (i.e. your fingers-messy but hilarious!)
• Then you hand roll chocolate truffles (all of this whilst resisting any temptation to lick your fingers of course).
• And time allowing (depending on how good you have been at the previous exercises) make chocolate thins. All of which you get to take back to the office or home with you.
• This offers a fantastic insight into how well you each work out of your comfort zone whilst providing an opportunity to observe  others hidden talents (or lack of!).
• The workshops provide a great opportunity to reward your staff in a way that everyone seems to enjoy and participate at reasonable costs. Personalised gifts for participants can additionally be arranged if required  

Team Building Exercises

Cost £40 per person

Time: two and a half hours. Minimum of 8 people/Maximum of 20 people. - The exercise is designed to help build team communications and morale in a way which is both enjoyable and encourages team members to work together to achieve their assigned challenge.

Making chocolate is a great leveller with often the most surprising people contributing great ideas:

• A typical team challenge is for the teams to each make a chocolate hot air balloon!
• Working in teams, you will have to design and make a chocolate basket for your balloon, complete with any company logo/ decoration you feel it needs.
• This will then be filled with some hand rolled chocolate truffles (made by the team of course).
• Then you make your balloon, which is not as easy as it sounds, and really does involve a good deal of pulling together as a team to make it work. Nobody will be familiar with what they are doing and it is a great way of discovering each others’ strengths and weaknesses. The results are always surprising and very entertaining.
• You all get to take your hot air balloons back to the office to show them off, or eat them, whichever takes your fancy.
•  Personalised gifts for participants can additionally be arranged if required