Category: Spotlights

The Franchising & Licensing Asia (FLAsia) is Asia’s largest and most international event of its kind. For the 2nd running year, FOCUS Adventure was one of the exhibitors during the 3 days event held at Marina Bay Sands on 12th to 14th October 2017. It was an excellent platform to showcase our unique selling points to potential investors and also to meet up with other like-minded business leaders in the franchising and licensing fraternity.

At our booth, we featured different franchising opportunities including our B.I.L.M.E.D services. Also, the video of the Team Challenge Hourglass attracted many visitors to stop and take a look, which helped to greatly boost the FOCUS Adventure brand, both locally and globally!

Many thanks to the partners which made the event a successful one!

We hosted 250 volunteers from Student Care Services (SCS) on 9^th September at our Learning Facility, as part of their Volunteers’ Appreciation Party 2017.

” Thanks to FOCUS, the Volunteer Appreciation Event was a success in providing us with the venue which includes three halls combined. It was spacious and cosy for everyone to enjoy the food and games within the hall. Once again, thank you for the partnership and we hope there are future collaborations. ”
– Adrian Lam, Senior Program Executive, Students Care Service

FOCUS Adventure kicked off the year with one of our new activities, The Monopoly Challenge! held at the Jurong Bird Park Singapore. Like any Monopoly game, this activity allows participants to “acquire” the properties (represented by enclosures and landmarks within the bird park), and upgrade them, of course these properties can also be STOLEN or teams made BANKRUPT too!

The incorporation of this new element adds colours to our usual structure of race where participants not only have to attempt to complete the photo quizzes and get back to the checkpoint in time, they also have to strategize amongst themselves to make sure they come back as the LARGEST property owner!

It was a session that fired up the teams’ competitive spirits, while forcing them to come together as a group to carefully strategize and plan ahead! Overall, the program was a great success and everyone went home feeling a little richer!

Happy Children Happy Future (HCHF) was founded by Gary Lau Hwei in June 2017. HCHF is currently serving kindergarten 1 to secondary 2 students, who are from low-income families, from all regions of Singapore. Many times, these families may lack tangible resources to provide for their kids. With a lack of resources, the opportunities they have may be limited, thus affecting their future. Therefore, HCHF was launched to help them ease their predicaments and improve their quality of life by shaping the younger ones.

Overwhelmed by the cosmopolitan city life? Yearning for an island getaway but don’t have the luxury of time? Now you can paddle your way to the Southern Islands of Singapore! Why take a ferry there when you can team up with your colleagues and get to Lazarus Island, St. John Island or Kusu Island on a Dragon Boat?  Uncover the mysteries of the Southern Islands of Singapore and make your island getaway a unique and thrilling experience like no others!

As a competitive sport, Dragon Boating is considered one of the toughest sport as it is not only physically demanding but mentally challenging too. It is the only sport that requires the teamwork of 10 people practising the same paddling actions simultaneously! While it may be challenging competitively, it can also be a leisurely row of the boat at your own pace. At the same time, your fellow paddlers will learn to work together to make the boat move most efficiently! What can be better than having fun while fostering bonds at the same time?

Dragon Boating is also one of the oldest sports around. It has its roots in ancient China where it was once used for religious purposes as a way of appeasing the rain gods. Dragon Boat Races came about to commemorate an ancient warrior and poet name Qu Yuan. It has a history of over 2000 years!

On 17 October, 28 youths from Singapore Children’s Society Jurong Youth Centre gathered for a morning of exciting activities. They were part of the YouthGIG Concert Team involved in the concert at Shuqun Secondary School on 27 November. Along with a team from FOCUS Adventure and subsidiary company Camp Challenge, the team building event served to bring the youth closer and push them out of their comfort zones through a series of challenging activities.

Fortunately, the weather was favourable for conducting high elements. Most of the youth were excited and eager to challenge the high elements; however there were a few who were fearful and anxious. The youth were grouped into teams, and took turns attempting the different elements. Being their maiden experience, it proved to be a challenge for most, as they slowly grew accustomed to the climbing equipment and the various call signs.

Calling all professionals from the Education, Learning and Development as well as Outdoor Adventure field. FOCUS Adventure is proud to present the latest innovation in challenge ropes course technology – the Team Challenge Hourglass (TCH). The TCH is a 24 m high challenge tower consisting of 24 different challenges, and is designed to stimulate maximum participant engagement and learning. It operates on a continuous belay system, which is easy for participants to use and significantly enhances their safety.

FOCUS Adventure would like to invite Instructors, Trainers, Educators, Facilitators and anyone from the people development field to join the TCH accreditation programmes. These programmes will allow you to guide and lead your own groups on the TCH. There are two levels of certification programmes:

1. Team Challenge Hourglass Instructor Certification
This certification will provide participants with a standardized understanding of the essential skills needed to perform effectively as an instructor on the Team Challenge Hourglass (TCH), and allows instructors to guide groups on the TCH, under the supervision of a Certified TCH Supervisor.

2. Team Challenge Hourglass Supervisor Certification
This course is designed for experienced instructors who intend to lead groups on the TCH, and will equip participants with the knowledge and skills to safely supervise participants and lead other instructors on the TCH. This certification allows supervisors to lead groups and manage certified TCH instructors on the TCH.

In 2016, FOCUS Adventure has successfully re-oriented its business structure towards the social enterprise model and officially become a member of raiSE, the Centre for Social Enterprise.

FOCUS Adventure believes in the importance of giving back to the society by linking up between our corporate clients and beneficiaries. By identifying the needs of the beneficiaries, FOCUS Adventure provides a platform through programmes (The CSR Challenge!) and support through channeling of resources to meet those needs.

Social Mission

– To Facilitate CSR Programmes and Resources between Corporate and VWOs.

Four Key Commitments:

1.    To Facilitate CSR Programmes between Corporate Clients and VWOs.

2.    To Channel CSR Resources from Corporate Clients to Identified Needs of VWOs.

3.    To Identify, Engage and Develop Under-privileged Youths for Employment in FOCUS Adventure through Adventure Learning Methodology and the Alpha Challenge Scholarship, so as to bring about a Higher Self-esteem, Self-confidence and Self-reliance in the Individual.

4.    To Participate and Contribute in the Building of a Community, and the Spirit and Ethos of Social Enterprises in Singapore through Dialogue, Engagement and Process Facilitation.

On 24^th March 2016, as early as 0800 hrs, 1,300 staff from a global early education organisation arrived at FOCUS Adventure; on the sandy beach of the State of Fun, Sentosa for their Staff Day. This is the first time all six early childhood education brands from the organisation in Singapore came together.

It was an extremely hot day but the heat did not dry up the passion and enthusiasm of the fun loving staff who tried their hands on the “Sporty” and “Creative” activities such as building race cars out of limited cardboards and other resources, rowing in our unique dragon boats, kayaking and FOCUS Adventure’s latest activity; The Bubble Challenge!, just to name a few.

The main highlight was the Cardboard Race Car competition. A total of 92 teams raced in a unique relay, 2 “drivers” (2 members from each team) had to race while wearing their own custom built cardboard cars. The difficulty of the race was raised as the “drivers” were blindfolded and needed to be guided by another team member.

Unkown to the participants, their organisation was in the midst of setting a new Singapore Book of Records. 4 rounds of Heats and the Finals were conducted under the invigilation of the representative from Singapore Book of Records. Under the scorching hot sun, the fastest car emerged after 30 minutes of racing and a new Singapore Book of Records for the “Largest Wearable Cardboard Box Race” was set with a total of 282 people in 141 wearable cardboard cars.

Other highlights of the day included the generous prizes awarded to the best teams for the following activities;

The Sandcastle Challenge!
The Alpha Link Challenge!
The Trebuchet Challenge!
The Dodge Ball Challenge!

Prizes were also awarded to the Top 5 teams with the Best Cardboard Race Car Design and Fastest in completing the Cardboard Race Car.

The Staff Day ended successfully with the Singapore Book of Records Award being presented to the group’s CEO!

More information on the Singapore Book of Records awarded to our client can be found in the following link: http://singaporerecords.com/largest-wearable-cardboard-box-race/