No. WheelChairity is designed so participants can successfully take part regardless of their previous building or mechanical experience.

The goal isn’t to see who already knows how to assemble a wheelchair. It’s to give teams a shared challenge that requires communication, patience, problem-solving, and cooperation. Different team members naturally step into different roles throughout the build, giving everyone an opportunity to contribute.

Basic tools and instructions are provided, and a trained technician is onsite to assist teams and inspect each completed wheelchair.

Teams earn wheelchair components by completing a variety of interactive team building challenges.

Rather than relying on one type of activity, WheelChairity mixes communication, creativity, problem-solving, observation, and friendly competition. Participants may find themselves racing around the room to connect with colleagues, identifying hilarious animal sounds, completing instant-camera photo challenges, constructing balloon towers, or solving puzzles and riddles.

The variety keeps the experience moving while giving different personalities and strengths opportunities to shine.

Every stage of WheelChairity gives participants a reason to work together. During the challenges, teams have to communicate, make quick decisions, divide responsibilities, adapt their strategies, and use the different strengths within their group.

When it comes time to assemble the wheelchairs, collaboration becomes even more important. Participants must follow instructions, coordinate responsibilities, pay attention to details, and help one another complete the final build. These lessons happen naturally through the experience, participants get to practice teamwork in a fun and hands-on way, rather than simply talk about it.

Yes. WheelChairity works especially well as a standalone corporate team building event or as part of a larger company meeting, conference, leadership gathering, or employee engagement program.

The two-hour format provides enough time for participants to get immersed in the experience without requiring an entire day away from other meeting content. It can also provide a meaningful change of pace during a conference by getting participants out of their seats, interacting with different colleagues, and rallying around a shared purpose.

WheelChairity is a philanthropic team building program that combines friendly competition, hands-on challenges, and charitable giving.

Participants work in teams to complete a series of highly engaging activities and earn the parts needed to assemble wheelchairs. At the end of the experience, the completed wheelchairs are donated to a local charitable organization serving people in need of greater mobility. The result is a team building experience that is energetic, highly engaging, and connected to a meaningful purpose!

WheelChairity combines two impactful experiences into one. The first delivers the energy of a traditional team building competition. Participants move around, laugh, strategize, solve challenges, and try to outperform the other teams.

Then the experience shifts as teams take everything they’ve earned and work together to assemble something that will have an impact beyond themselves. By the time the charity representative arrives, participants can see a direct connection between the teamwork they practiced and the impact they created.

What begins as competition ultimately becomes community impact through a powerful collective contribution.

The completed wheelchairs are donated through a charitable organization serving people who can benefit from increased mobility. Your organization can choose a charity that is meaningful to your team or local community. If you don’t already have an organization in mind, Team Builders Plus can help identify an appropriate local charitable partner and coordinate the donation logistics.

At the conclusion of the program, a charity representative joins participants onsite to accept the wheelchairs and share more about the organization, the people it serves, and the impact the donations will make. That connection helps participants truly understand that what they built during the program will continue making a difference long after the event ends.

Giving back creates a shared goal that extends beyond simply winning an activity. In WheelChairity, participants still get the laughter, competition, and energy people expect from a great team building event. But they also know their effort is contributing to something tangible.

By the end of the program, teams haven’t just spent two hours together. They’ve worked together to create something that can help another person experience greater mobility and independence. That’s an accomplishment participants remember for years to come!