t   What is the Gallivanting Goose?

We’re a company that offers corporate team building activities, group adventures and city exploration while taking part in a mobile scavenger hunt, best known to us as a wild goose chase game. With deep historical and cultural knowledge of Cape Town, it’s surrounding towns, wine farms and attractions, Johannesburg and many other parts of South Africa, we offer unique mobile scavenger hunts and custom team building activities that make use of an app to gamify the experience.  Fun, immersive and educational, the experience offers an element of competition while all activities are tracked in real-time. Members of teams participating must work together to complete challenges via the app, requiring them to be creative, use teamwork, good communication, strategy, and problem-solving skills.   

The Gallivanting Goose was started after an app driven scavenger hunt, birthday celebration I created for family and friends; there was so much exuberant laughter and energy after the event, and I had so much fun putting it together. I was in corporate at the time, and I was  always trying to find for my extended team and colleagues, the best value for money experience for us to do together where we could connect outside of the office, where it wasn’t a day out around a table of food (team outing), but something we all got to engage in, alongside one another and a chance to bond. I realised as a marketer and manager in the office, that there was a gap in the market for an app driven, educational, engaging, live scavenger hunt in the corporate world!

That was all in the last half of 2015. Since then, we’ve run events for corporates, small and large from 10 players to 140 and created games in well and lesser known attractions, places of beauty, interest and historical significance in South Africa! We’ve custom made games for wine routes, HR managers who needed to introduce a new concept to their staff, to big tourist attractions who needed to educate front line staff on their offerings and groups who needed to onboard their interns to their brand. We’ve received rave reviews, had a few people talk about us in various print and online publications, initiated many meaningful connections and created experiences for people to allow them to remember details about a place they would not ordinarily have known about.  

I’m passionate about South Africa and I love to share and show it off!  I’m a detailed, organised person and take great joy in bringing people together, creating an opportunity for real connections and experiences and providing a chance for folks to have a good laugh!