Corporate event ideas

Corporate parties / Client entertaining /
In-house treatment service

Office parties, whether to celebrate Christmas or the summer can be fun, but often need an injection of life before the lights are dimmed and the dancing begins. If you are organising an office party, entertaining clients or hosting a new product launch, Balance being can help to enhance your celebrations or event by adding a well-being element. Additionally, Balance being works on a weekly basis for Deloitte by supplying holistic and beauty therapists to treat staff during the day in their on-site Health Pod.

Case Study: Deloitte, Stephenson Harwood LLP, Manches LLP, Taylor Wessing To entertain top female clients in an innovative and stylish way, the companies listed above approached Balance being to create an evening, spa-like environment to ensure their guests felt thoroughly pampered, yet relaxed with the aim of combating the post-Christmas blues. A team of holistic and beauty therapists, along with a champagne expert, tarot readers, aura readers and delicious canapés helped ensure the evening was a great success. In the words of one of Deloitte's guests: "It is one of the best corporate client events I have been to and I certainly felt more relaxed and re-charged by the end of the evening."

Case Study: Channel 4 Christmas parties in Elysium 2002, AKA The End 2003 and Cirque 2004 For the last three years, Balance being has provided a number of therapists to animate the annual staff Christmas party, including: a team of beauty therapists (to buff and polish nails); masseurs (to rub tired shoulders); reflexologists (to boost flagging immune systems); make-up artists (to give the girls a party glow); tarot card readers (to predict the future)

Case Study: Health & Case Management Limited (HCML) To help show case this new independent rehabilitation case management company, Balance being was approached to provide a team of holistic therapists to provide mini treatments during the launch party at Prism, EC1. Guests, who included surgeons, press, private investors, human resource managers, company directors were treated to Japanese seated acupressure massage, Indian head massage and hand reflexology while they sipped cocktails and sampled canapés.

We can also arrange magicians, group relaxation/meditation, musicians, salsa dancing and many other original activities depending upon your needs.

Prices start from £65+VAT per therapist.

In-house company spas/pods
Balance being can set up and run a fully serviced in-house company spa/treatment room, offering a range of beauty and holistic treatments. Additional services include yoga/pilats classes for staff.

Press events / Product launches /
Competition prizes

Balance being can provide public relations expertise and can work with corporate clients to help organise and run new product launches or anniversaries, whether aimed at the press or the general public. We can help to source innovative locations within London and throughout the country and then provide a well-being and pampering element to enhance the event and give it a unique twist to ensure those attending leave feeling pampered and ready to promote the products to their readers or friends. Our well-being days can also provide excellent competition prizes as they are unique, and can be tailored to suit your budget and the number of prize winners you wish to reward.

Case Study: L'Oréal Paris To embellish the launch of 'Cashmere Perfect', its new foundation, L'Oréal Paris asked Balance being to provide a holistic and pampering twist for their press day. Balance being created a luxury, spa-like retreat in a private property in the heart of London. Beauty journalists were treated to a variety of energy treatments including Craniosacral therapy and seated Japanese acupressure massage. Balance being also sourced innovative invitations, cashmere press gifts, refreshments and floral decorations for the launch event.

Case Study: Shiseido Balance being helped Shiseido to launch Benefiance Serum at Buckingham Gate in London by providing a choice of therapies for journalists to experience during the press event, along with a food gift bag which contained refreshments bearing the ingredients of the new serum.

Case Study: Top Shop, Oxford Street, London As part of National Glamour Day (2003) and Week (2004), Balance being was on hand to offer yoga and a range of holistic treatments to revive and inspire Glamour readers and Top Shop card holders as they visited the store to celebrate the day. Balance being is also joining Top Shop in Birmingham to help launch their new Midlands store.

Case Study: Hobbs, King's Road, London Hobbs linked with Tatler to preview their Autumn/Winter 2003 collection in their King's Road flagship store and asked Balance being to pamper guests with reflexology, manicures and makeovers using the latest catwalk trends, as well as providing tempting canapés for refreshments during the evening.

Case Study: L'Oréal Luxury Products Division Cacharel Fragrances and Glamour magazine hosted a fashion show in Selfridges, London to celebrate Anais Anais, their iconic fragrance's 25th anniversary. Balance being provided a team of beauty therapists to give hand massages using Anais Anais' latest body creams and to buff and polish the Glamour readers' nails during the evening's event.

Prices start from £65+VAT per therapist.

Team rewards /
Brainstorming well-being days

Balance being host team reward well-being days in a number of contemporary locations including private mews properties, luxury roof-top apartments, country retreats, private member clubs in London and throughout the country. The days can be purely for pampering and relaxation purposes or can incorporate breaks in the schedule for brainstorming, depending on the aim of the day.

Case Study: Vogue Balance being created a Beauty Forum for Vogue, which allowed them to spend time together as a team to brainstorm but also to relax, be pampered and feel rejuvenated prior to Autumn commencing. In the words of Kate Lowe, Vogue's Associate Publisher, "You both received the BIG thumbs up from everyone who participated in Wednesday's Balance being day. It was so different to anything we've done before – the convenience of being in Central London was a winner, but so was the fact we were out of the office, in our own private space, being utterly pampered and beautifully looked after with out any of the fuss that can sometimes accompany these sorts of events. Thank you so much for catering to our every whim. The chocolate cake was a total joy too!"

Case Study: Elizabeth Arden To reward top-performing consultants from the UK and Ireland, Elizabeth Arden employed Balance being's services to create a two-day pamper retreat in Knightsbridge, London. The award-winning consultants were treated to 48 hours of facials, yoga, holistic therapies and nutritious, home-cooked food. According to the Boots consultant from Scotland, "A totally mind-blowing experience. I need to sell more to ensure I win again next year."

Case Study: Brown Forman Beverages Brown Forman has invited Balance being to create thee different types of team-rewards over the last twelve months. The first was a "corporate hen party celebration" involving an afternoon of pampering followed by cocktails and canapés; the second was a style-led event where holistic treatments were interspersed with fashion advice and tips on hair and make-up trends; the third involved the sales and marketing team (male as well as female employees) who, following a healthy brunch, spent the rest of the day being thoroughly pampered and preened!

Case Study: Schroders A private investment team at Schoders asked Balance being to put together a relaxing, well-being day for them following the completion of a project that they had been working on intensively for a number of weeks. The team enjoyed a personalised day of holistic therapies along with yoga, guided meditation and tarot. The day also included home-cooked lunch and afternoon tea.

Prices start from £65+VAT per person.

Corporate entertainment days

Balance being can enhance corporate entertainment days by providing a team of holistic therapists to add a well-being twist to the day's procedures. Therapists can travel to the event as they often take place outside the M25.

Case Study: Investec, Deutschebank, Bank of Ireland Balance being has provided post-golf mini de-stressing treatments for a number of banking clients at their golf tournaments at courses in and around the home counties. On each occasion, the golfers are treated to neck and shoulder; Indian Head massage and reflexology as they came off the 18th hole and enjoy a pre-dinner drink.

Prices start from £65+VAT per therapist.