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About Cinderella Events

Team building has a bad reputation. We understand why.

Most team building treats adults like children. You get herded into a room, split into arbitrary groups, and asked to do something you would never choose to do on a weekend. Then everyone pretends it was great in the feedback form and privately agrees to never speak of it again.

Cinderella Events exists because we think your team deserves better than that. We build murder mystery experiences that are genuinely challenging, properly entertaining, and do not require anyone to do anything embarrassing. Professional actors play all the suspects live on camera. Your team works together to solve the case using our interactive platform.

The format works because the challenge is real. There is a genuine puzzle to solve with multiple suspects, contradictory evidence, and red herrings designed to mislead. Teams that communicate well do better than teams that do not. That is not something we have to manufacture. It just happens when you give smart people a problem worth solving.

No costumes. No one has to act. Just a proper challenge that treats your team like adults.

Four things that guide everything we build

  • Adults deserve adult experiences. If your team building would embarrass a 14-year-old, it will embarrass a 40-year-old. We design for intelligent people who want to be challenged, not patronised.
  • Virtual does not have to mean boring. We hear it all the time: 'our team is sick of Zoom'. So are we. That is why we built experiences that don't feel like a video call. Live actors, real-time evidence, proper investigation. People forget they are online within minutes.
  • The sceptics matter most. The people who dread team building are the ones we design for. If we can win them over, everyone else is already on board. And they usually end up being the most engaged.
  • Every event should be worth talking about. If your team is not still arguing about who the killer was three weeks later, we have not done our job. We would rather do one brilliant thing than ten forgettable ones.

What you can expect

We are a small company and we intend to stay that way. Every event is personally facilitated. Every client gets a direct conversation about what they need. We do not hand you off to an account manager or send a junior team to deliver on the day.

We work with companies between 10 and 50 employees. If you have got more employees, we can split your team into groups.

If your team enjoys a genuine intellectual challenge and you want an event they will actually remember, we are a good fit.

If you want balloon animals and a DJ, we are probably not.

Want to work with us?

We are always happy to talk to people who think team building should be something people actually want to do.

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