18/09/2025
Happy 10 Years !
founded The Big Smoke Events on 18th Sept 2015.
It started as a scavenger hunt for a few friends.
And now, we’ve delivered thousands of fun team building experiences to startups and FTSE 100s all over the world.
What a journey it’s been!
Here are her top 10 moments from the past 10 years - and some of our favourite photos from the archives!
1. Creating the brand over a glass of wine with .global , and making a lifelong friend off the back of it! 🥂
2. Leaving my job at Heinz in July 2016 to go full time into my business (albeit having to consult and babysit on the side to make it work).
3. InStyle Magazine naming our scavenger hunt “The best corporate day around.”
4. The Thames Slip video from our Tesco scavenger hunt going completely viral. It’s still one of our most legendary moments 🤣
5. Pulling off a 2,000-person scavenger hunt for Meta, our biggest one to date!
6. Winning Tripadvisor’s Travellers’ Choice Award every year since 2018, putting us in the Top 10% things to do globally!
7. Glamour Magazine featuring our Stuck at Home Scavenger Hunt (we offered this to families for free during Covid, when kids were stuck at home).
8. Going from not having a single virtual event in our portfolio before 2020 to creating an entire range AND running 82 (!) festive virtual events in Dec 2020, all in the span of 9 months 🤯
9. My team, Tom, Lawrence, and , bringing me Magic Bingo as an extension of our Classic Bingo Challenge Show. It’s now our second bestselling product (a proud founder moment, for sure ✨).
10. All the amazing people I’ve met and worked with along the way 🙌
Thank you to every client, venue, agency, supplier, freelancer, and team member who’s been part of The Big Smoke Events over the years 💖 Celebrations are in order!