Chocolate Talks & Team Building

Duration: 2 to 3 hours

Unavailable to book online – please contact Experience North Country to discuss your requirements.

Description:

Team building, company social or staff reward? Artisan chocolatier Jane Williams leads a number of the most delicious and unique chocolate experiences for you and your team...

The Chocolate Factory Experience - active team building exercise with hands-on chocolate making

£450 - total cost

Available for a team of up to 16.

Takes place at Jane’s Chocolate Studio in North Shields, Tyne & Wear.

Lasts 3 hours.

Step inside an artisan chocolate studio where you will be guided through a number of exciting processes in the making of handcrafted artisan chocolates. When working with chocolate, the processes involved require a certain tempo to be maintained throughout. This necessitates keen group work, with everyone working concurrently towards a common aim. We offer these processes as enjoyable, informal activities in a sociable environment, where you will learn excellent cross transferable skills to take back to your work environment.

After a fun and worthwhile day inside a real chocolate factory, we hope everyone will leave feeling refreshed and inspired. All will return home with a goodie bag of their creations.

Story of a Chocolatier - talk

£345 plus £2.75 per head

Available for groups of 8 to 200

Lasts 2 hours

Hear Jane Williams tell of her journey to her dream job, and her great privilege in training under a second generation Swiss chocolatier.

Chocolate History - talk

£345 plus £2.75 per head

Available for up to 200

Lasts 2 hours

From the Aztec and Mayan origins of chocolate to the growth of understanding of its qualities in recent European history, to the developments in technology that have shaped the chocolate that we all appreciate today.

Chocolate is the new Wine - talk

£345 plus £2.75 per head

Available for groups of up to 200

Lasts 2 hours

As appreciation of fine food grows in the UK, people are becoming ever more discerning in their choice of chocolate. Learn about our part in the emerging artisan chocolate revolution!

Educate your Palette - talk & tasting

£345 plus £5.25 per head

Available for groups of up to 200

Lasts 2.5 hours

Be guided through tasting of a range of chocolate from different plantations around the world. Distinguish your 'criollo' bean from your 'forestero' as you discover the difference between African chocolate and South American. Learn 'what makes great chocolate great' and how to recognise it.

Chocolatiers Visit the Dragon's Den - active team building exercise

£345 plus £2.75 per head

Available for groups of 8 to 200

Lasts 2.5 hours

Your group will be split into teams and asked to create ideas for a brand new chocolate company, including product range, marketing strategy, packaging concepts... then they have to pitch their proposals to a panel of judges!

Essential Information:

Available for any group size

Available across the North East

Groups sized up to 24 have the option of using Jane’s Chocolate Studio. Experience North Country can organise a suitable venue for larger groups, although this is likely to boost the overall cost of your experience.

Unavailable October through December.

About Jane Williams

With an innovative approach to taste, texture and style, artisan Chocolatier Jane Williams creates chocolates with a modern fusion of tradition and creativity.

Classically trained under a second generation master chocolatier, Philippe Burger, Jane crafts chocolates with a beautiful sense of simple sophistication. Wonderful recipes are executed by hand with skill and craftsmanship to produce the exquisite chocolate centres. These are then delicately coated in specifically selected smooth and rich chocolate couverture, using the traditional Swiss method of 'enrobing'.