Two Days of Connection, Creativity & Brand Culture at Rushton Hall
🎯 Client Objective
Altavia UK approached us to design and deliver a landmark 40th anniversary and company merger celebration that would reflect the company's values, engage its UK team, and provide a premium experience for both UK and international guests. The brief called for a seamless two-day event with business sessions, team-building, and a vibrant evening celebration - all within a single, beautiful destination.
💡 Our Creative Approach
We transformed the historic Rushton Hall into the perfect host venue for a hybrid-style event that balanced strategic business content with immersive celebration and team bonding. Our team crafted a seamless guest journey that transitioned from conference room to ballroom, ensuring every element reinforced the brand and created a sense of occasion.
Experience Highlights:
🛏️ Venue Management across two hotels, with over 140 guests accommodated and seamlessly coordinated between Rushton Hall and The Holiday Inn.
🧠 Conference AV & Translation: A full production setup including large-scale screens, comfort monitors, simultaneous French/English interpretation, and multi-room presentation support.
🎨 Creative Team-building activity divided into Mental, Physical, and Creative zones, ending in collaborative canvas art creation.
🕯️ Floral & Candlelit Styling: Brand-colour florals, candelabras, and warm uplighting transformed the dinner space into an elegant celebration setting.
🥂 Bespoke Catering & Cocktails: Premium dining, a curated cocktail list, branded edible drink toppers, and a celebratory drinks menu.
🎤 Live Band & DJ: A high-energy 8-piece band and late-night DJ kept guests dancing long after the formal dinner.
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🚧 Event Challenges
Delivering a large-scale residential event across two venues meant complex logistics for guest movement, accommodation, and AV coordination. We also managed tight turnaround times for stage setup, simultaneous interpretation requirements, and ensuring inclusive experiences for a multi-lingual, cross-cultural audience.
🛠️ Our Solution
We provided end-to-end event production, from strategic planning to onsite delivery, including:
A fully branded experience, down to custom décor, florals, gobos, and edible cocktail details.
Pro-level technical production, including full AV rig, custom stage and lighting, dual-language interpretation, and content playback management.
Flexible guest coordination, managing dietary needs, room allocations, and VIP logistics.
A team-building concept that blended fun with brand storytelling — designed to unlock creativity and spark laughter.
📊 Results & Impact
The event unified a distributed workforce, many of whom were meeting in person for the first time post-pandemic.
Attendees left feeling valued, celebrated, and inspired, with high praise for both the smoothness and surprise elements throughout.
The client noted how the event captured the Altavia brand culture while offering moments of delight, from the collaborative art challenge to the joyful after-party.
“The energy was electric, the production was spot on, and it felt like us from start to finish.”
“That team challenge was the best thing we’ve done - everyone’s still talking about it.”
🎥 Lasting Memories
From drone footage to dinner speeches, branded cocktail cheers to late-night dance floor moments — the event was captured in full, providing rich content to use across internal comms and culture channels.
📈 Ongoing Value
The Altavia 40th event wasn’t just a celebration — it was a milestone in culture building. It solidified connections, reinforced purpose, and reminded attendees what makes Altavia UK stand out
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