Team Building Activities, Events & Ideas

Team Building Activity Ideas

We offer over 50 team-building activities, including creative indoor workshops like the Masterpiece Challenge and Pizza Making, as well as competitive outdoor events such as Corporate Sports Days and Wacky Wheels. Each of our events engages your team in enjoyable activities while fostering the development of essential soft and social skills.

Best 10 UK Team Building Activities & Events for Work

1. Smartphone Urban Treasure Hunt

One of our best team building activities for workplaces is our Smartphone Urban Treasure Hunt, where your group head out into your local town or city for an interactive adventure solving a host of interactive games and challenges. This self-ran event is a informal team away day idea for the staff to step away from their desks to work together, and includes an easy-to-use app with a live scoreboard, chat room and support options. See all our team building treasure hunts here...

2. Pizza Making

Our most popular indoor team building event in the UK is our pizza making workshop, which offers delivers a lot for such a low cost team activity. Bring yourselves along to a fantastic restaurant where you will be taught how to make your own pizzas before trying them out for yourselves! The tasty experience includes an experienced pizza chef to show you the ropes and play some food-themed games with the group before they create, bake and enjoy their own pizzas.

3. Stop the Clocks

Race against time and solve as many challenges as you can - Those with the least time accrued will be crowned the winners! This event is all about working together under the pressure of time, spreading out a variety of fun challenges throughout the day that your staff will need to complete in smaller teams.

4. Corporate Sports Day

Another firm favourite and one of our best outdoor team building activities is our Corporate Sports Day. Take yourselves back to your childhood as you split into small teams and compete in a host of classic sports day games and races. With everything you need included, simply hop into smaller teams and cheer on your teammates to see who crosses the finish line first in each of the light-hearted games.

5. Bonkers Games

Bring out your competitive streak as you compete in teams through a host of hilarious inflatable games! This fully organised inflatable course is excellent if looking for a team away day, providing some friendly competition between your group. One of our best summer team building events we offer!

6. Pub Olympics

Take your pick of a host of awesome activities and games and bring the fun straight to your office. Our experienced team will work to bring all the games of your choice to your venue, setting everything up so your staff can focus on decompressing away from busy projects for an afternoon. Games can include ping pong, air hockey and darts just to name a few.

7. Chain Reaction

Rack your brains and bring out your creative side as you work together to build a huge domino-style contraption. This popular team building away day is all about working together as you're responsible for one section of a larger structure that all needs to work successfully at the end of the event.

8. Crystal Challenge

Inspired by the hit TV series, you and your colleagues will work in small groups to solve a host of unique and mind-boggling challenges. These mental and physical team building challenges will need your staff to come together, using each other's strengths to win points throughout the day and be crowned the winners at the end!

9. Cocktail Making

Another top indoor team building activity is our cocktail making workshops. You group will learn how to mix, shake and stir up your favourite drinks in this boozy experienced led by an experienced bartender. This cocktail experience includes an introduction to the art of mixology before you get behind the bar yourself and use expert equipment to shake some world famous cocktails. Its a great way to reward staff with a mix of team building and fun rolled into one.

10. Wacky Wheels

Use your creative skills to build your very own wacky wheels kart before taking to the track to race the other teams! The wacky wheels focuses on teamwork and creativity, taking your staff outdoors to build a kart from scratch.

Team Building Activities for Work

Have you been tasked with finding team building activities for your workplace? We offer over 50 ideas for team building days that not only ensure your team has fun, but also help in developing communication, problem-solving skills, and boosting morale. Our range of group team building activities for adults, including collaborative tasks, communication, and creative thinking, are designed to foster a positive workplace culture.  Our Crime Scene Investigation team event is a good example, offering a unique activity to keep everyone engaged and helping develop leadership and problem-solving skills.

All our team activities can be held in your office/­workplace, hotel, parks or city centre. If you need help finding a venue, speak to our event planners who can access 1000's of venues.

Indoor Team Building Activities & Events

Stay inside, and don't let the weather affect your team building event. Our indoor team building activities are popular all year round, including themed The Betrayers, Master of the Tasks and problem solving challenges such as Chain Reaction and Qubed. It's suitable for all group sizes, small or large, and we can come to any venue you choose or ask our event planners to find you an indoor venue suitable for your team day.

Outdoor Team Building Activities & Events

Do you want to escape the office? Our outdoor team building activities could be just what you need, from outdoor physical team events challenges like Battle of Olympus and Mission Possible to competitive games such as Bonkers Games and Sports: Multi Activity Day. All our outdoor team events have been designed to develop communication, teamwork and leadership skills for small or larger groups. Our event planners will discuss your goals and advise on the most appropriate team building activity to suit your outcome.

"My last team building activity was the pizza making
which I think is our best indoor event."

Izzie
Corporate Event Manager

Fun Team Building Activities & Events

Laughter helps bond people together. We have created a collection of fun company team building activities that will boost morale and enhance your workplace culture. Take our Pizza Making Class, which has groups tossing dough and playing games while sipping lovely prosecco in an indoor venue in the city centre. Or our Pub Olympics, which has teams playing various competitive games like air hockey, dart, and casino tables in a fun environment. Let our event staff help you create a fun team building event that will unite team bonds for years.

Summer Team Building Activities & Events

Boost your staff's vitamin D with sunshine, naturally enhancing smiles and motivation. At Funktion Events, we provide a variety of summer team-building ideas perfect for company away days, fun days, and corporate events. For small teams of 10-30 people, we offer activities like the Smartphone Urban Treasure Hunt, Battle Archery Tag, and Outdoor Escape Rooms. We recommend Multi Activity Sports Days, Wacky Wheels, and Battle of Olympus for larger teams.

Team Building Activities for Adults

All our team building activities are for adults only. We have developed our events for staff who, for whatever reason, need a break from the office or workplace. Activities like our Smartphone Pub Treasure Hunt and Cocktail Making require staff over 18 years of age to participate as they are held in licenced venues. But just because these activities are aimed at adults does not mean they have to be boring. Our Bonkers Games and Outdoor Escape Rooms combine adult challenges with hilarious games and tasks.

Team Building Activities For Large Groups

The bigger, the better, we say! We have numerous team building events perfect for larger groups, such as our Olympic Sports Day, suitable for groups of up to 500 people. You'll break into smaller teams and compete head-to-head in various track and field themed games.  We also offer indoor team activities for large groups and have designed a collection of events like Challenge 100, Stop The Clocks and Chain Reaction, which are fine in large conference rooms. If you need support finding a venue, let our event planners know who can access thousands of venues across the UK.

How to Choose the Perfect Team Building Activity

There are many things to consider when choosing the right team activities for your event, however following these key points we have created will ensure a positive experience.

Why are you doing it?

This is ultimately the most important point to understand and make take some time to come to the correct outcome. Most companies fall into the trap of just thinking that they need to have a fun team activity for their staff every year. This is a nice idea, but businesses can see greater results if they just spend more time thinking about why we need to do a team building activity.

What is the goal you are hoping to achieve with the team event?

If it’s a brand new workplace team and you’re hoping to break the ice and get everyone acquainted, then a fun more casual approach could be the answer. Or maybe, you are looking to create some competition between teams and departments as part of the sales strategy. Based on these two scenarios our event planners would suggest totally different corporate team building ideas.

So spend more time thinking about the goal you want to achieve to ultimately achieve more. Also, team away days are not free, they cost money, so there is a good chance that someone at the top of the corporate chain wants to see results. This comes to our next point, tangible outcomes.

Focus on the tangible outcomes you expect by doing the team activity

Team activities are more than just having fun, they are a mixture of exercises to help build cohesion and performance through a multitude of mutual group issues. They instigate discussions and are a brilliant educational tool that can be continued back at the office or workplace.

So how do you choose the perfect team building activity for groups?

Think of planning your next team building days out as a recipe: individual ingredients can be bland and uninteresting on their own, but when mixed together thoughtfully, they create a beautiful dish. Start with the end in mind, taking the time to focus clearly on your teams goals and desired outcomes. With this approach, you’ll be well on your way to choosing the perfect team activity that brings your team closer together.

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