We just celebrated our super sweet 16!
This week, we turned 16 – and what better way to celebrate than with a birthday bash to rival the MTV classic?
We marked Verve’s sixteenth year in business with a weekend of partying: team lunch on Friday, followed by Town Hall, and then it was on to Sports Day. Saturday was party day with drinks and dancing - Y2K style of course.
We celebrated sixteen years of Verve with a special edition of our monthly town hall – highlighting the hard work that got us here, plus a look back over the last year and a glance ahead to what’s next.
Cathi, our Founder and CEO, does this every year on Verve’s birthday, and this year was no exception – featuring shiny silver 16 balloons!
Not forgetting the buffet lunch and birthday cake to get the whole team fuelled up for our next activity: sports day.
Split into 2 teams, it was time to go head-to-head in a series of super serious sports: relay sprints, egg and spoon race, and red light/green light.
Bonus points, of course, went to anyone who could balance a beer on their head.
It turns out we’re a surprisingly competitive bunch - especially with a Traitors-style twist!
Only a bumped head and a scraped elbow later, Team Black were declared the victors at Sports Day 2025.
The cherry on the birthday cake! We rounded off year 16 with a fabulous party full of eating, drinking, dancing and disco balls.
We went all out on the sweet 16 theme with pink balloons, sweets galore and a DJ fully briefed on the whole team’s favourite ‘straight to the dance floor’ songs.
Pretty sweet, right?
Here’s to the next sixteen!
Naomi is communications lead at Verve, and an expert in strategic people communication. Her passion is in creatively bringing our employer brand to life.