The Conundrum

Meet Fiona, Executive PA at StoneX, a financial services firm with offices all over the world. Every year the London StoneX office holds a summer party for its team, which, along with their Christmas party, is one of Fiona’s many jobs to organise.  

Fiona had sourced the venue (the beautiful Shoreditch gardens) and, inspired by the company’s worldwide presence, had come up with the idea of an ‘around the world’ theme with different zones to represent the different StoneX office locations around the world. 

With 500 guests to accommodate and a million other things to do, Fiona needed help to transform the huge outdoor space and empty atrium into a mini global gathering, and bring her brilliant idea to life with games, theming and event design.

The Solution

Bringing the fun and the ideas is what we do best. So we went ‘all in’ on themed games and event creative. We started with custom branding for our 8-player Scalextric and Roll-A-Ball Racing. But StoneX didn’t just want custom branding, Fiona encouraged us to go wild with a completely unique concept, so our designer added a vintage world map to the Roll-A-Ball Racing board and hand-drawn city skylines (featuring StoneX cities) to the Scalextric skirt.

We also built international distance signs featuring the number of miles to each StoneX country location (with actual distances).

Inside, we designed bold wall backdrops, fiesta-style floral displays and disco balls with mini piñatas and sombrero props.

One of Fiona’s biggest challenges was getting guests to stay and immerse themselves fully in the event, so we came up with the idea of an ‘event passport’. Each guest was given a hard-cover passport complete with itinerary and a stamp-able page for each activity/country. When guests completed an activity (like Brazilian drumming) or took part in a game, they got a country stamp. There’s nothing like a bit of healthy colleague competition…

The Outcome

Fiona was thrilled with the event and the leadership team had a brilliant time too. You might say they were eXceptionally happy with our services…

THANK YOU so much for all your amazing work to make our summer party a wonderful success. The atmosphere was relaxed and just right.

Fiona Litchfield

Executive Assistant, StoneX

And the StoneX team were so pleased with their summer party, they’ve already started planning with us for their Christmas party.