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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 where professional actors play all the suspects live on camera and your team works together to solve the case using our interactive platform. The challenge is real. The entertainment is built in. And nobody has to do anything embarrassing.

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.

Your team turns up and solves a murder. The actors handle the performance side. It is a proper challenge that treats people 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. Within ten minutes of the first suspect walking on screen, people forget they are sitting at a laptop.
  • 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. You talk to us directly. The people who design your event are the same people who run it on the day.

We work with groups of 10 to 60 for virtual events. For larger teams, we can run multiple sessions or expand the format. Get in touch and we will work out what makes sense.

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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