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Embrace the great outdoors!

Escape the indoors with our fantastic Country Pursuits activities — from field sports to motorised racing. Choose from activities such as quad biking, archery, clay pigeon shooting, falconry, 4×4, laser clays, axe throwing and segways. Or up the ante even further with helicopters, hovercrafts, rigid inflatable boats, microlights and powerturn buggies!

Country Pursuits Snapshot

Here’s everything you need to know about Country Pursuits*:

*Snapshot details as a guide – get in touch for tailored quote & timings.

Event duration is
1-8 hours
Group size from
16 people
Cost is from
£2,950
Location is
Outdoor

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Features

Benefits

Accessible

Customisable

Physical & skill-based activities

Boosts team morale

Provides a fantastic away-day

Fosters friendly competition between teams

Clears heads and provides a literal breath of fresh air

Features

Accessible

Customisable

Physical & skill-based activities

Benefits

Boosts team morale

Provides a fantastic away-day

Fosters friendly competition between teams

Clears heads and provides a literal breath of fresh air

How Country Pursuits works

What are the rules of Country Pursuits?

Your group splits into teams to rotate through the activities. Guests get a chance to practice before being scored on their performances, with the winners rewarded at an end-of-day prize-giving.

Who is Country Pursuits for?

This is an outdoor team building event that works best with groups of 25 or more — enough to form sufficient teams to really stoke the inter-colleague competition!

How long does Country Pursuits last?

Country Pursuits usually takes between 1.5 and 4 hours — depending on your appetite for the outdoors!

I could not be happier with how the event was organised in the months preceding the event and how it was managed on the days. Sarah and her team were both efficient and delightful to work with. I also had positive feedback from my co-host colleagues and a large number of delegates. I am in fact already in dealings with Maximillion again, in preparation of a new international meeting. I highly recommend Maximillion and Sarah Esslemont for leading and organising meeting.

NHS Medical Conference

Mr Nicola de Liguori Carino, MD

Ross and the team at Maximillion were an absolute pleasure to work with and played a HUGE part in the success of the Phoenix Leadership UnConference 2023! From the very beginning Maximillion embraced the relaxed feel of this year’s conference and helped bring our vision to life! From a bespoke centre stage to Lego figurines, beanbag seating to branded sticky notes – everything was planned and executed to the highest of standards and myself and the wider team could not be happier! Maximillion have delivered many events for Phoenix Group, they are an extended part of the team and we honestly couldn’t deliver the events like we do without them!

Phoenix Group

Maximillion ran the Urban Adventure for our teams with the activity run in Edinburgh city centre and the feedback has been nothing but positive. The activity brought teams together from different offices and different business areas and was a great way for everyone to get to know each other in a fun and informal activity.

Nucleus Financial

Our guests were delighted with the day of Highland Games, the team of maximilion was fantastic. I will recommend them 100%.

Horizons – TPG Scotland

Everything from start to finish was amazing and Jenny kept in constant contact – couldn’t fault Jenny or the company whatsoever. Organisation/Communication was 100% perfect.

White & Mackay

Thank you to Mike, Ross and Sandy from Maximillion for the team building in the afternoon, murder mystery that evening, Belbin Team Roles next morning, a fantastic team building session in the afternoon and, finally, a great barbecue that evening provided by Norton House. Although some of us were a bit slow of the mark the second day, the same positive attitude and enthusiasm from day one prevailed and I think we all got something out of it. It was clear to me that everyone was communicating and working together better by the end of the afternoon.

Abbot Risk Consulting

John Abbot, MD

Just a note to say thanks for all your help with the Yamaha event last week. It went very well, and the client was very happy. I know she was a bit worried just because of experiences at other venues around the world where things have not gone according to plan. So for us to arrive and see it all set and ready to roll, put her mind at rest.

Spectra

We had an absolutely fantastic time at our Teambuilding afternoon hosted by Maximillion Events at our Ayrshire premises. This is now the 3rd time we have used their services and will definitely be looking to use them again next year. Such a lovely and professional group of people to deal with!! We had various games with a bespoke package set up for a group of staff members with varying degree of mobility. We did carpet curling (indoors), giant jenga, connect 4, darts, air hockey to name but a few all being done outside near to our foodhall and “refreshments” area. It was perfect, everyone had a blast and the Maximillion team were a joy to work with. Thorough, professional, safety conscious and lots of fun. They looked to enjoy themselves watching us and our very competitive natures shine through. Thank you again to all at Maximillion – you made our day that extra special.

RUA Life Sciences

June Ryland

The general comment today in the office is how amazing the event was and how much fun people had.

University of Edinburgh

The event was brilliant. Thank you so much to you guys and also Scott and his team on the day. You couldn’t have done more to help and we have had some lovely feedback. We even had people coming to look at the set up so they could copy it for their events, so we did a good job!

Standard Life

Katie-Lee

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