Top Three team-building Building Events Within one hour from London

Funky Junk Within one hour from London

Funky Junk is one of those events that surprises participants. We provide a selection of household junk items, such as pipes, dustbins and kitchen utensils. With the assistance of our instructors teams use all of this random paraphernalia to make music. It is the sort of thing that you sometimes see street artists in London doing. The surprise is twofold; first of all people are surprised at how much fun they have doing this, and secondly they are surprised at how musical the outcome is. We think people will go home after an event like this and start making music around the house, never able to make a cup of tea quietly again! With many years of event experience, we can help you to find the best venue for your event within one hour from London. Synovate appreciated this element of our full team building event service; ‘Your team on the day were great, so please pass a massive thank you to them as well. Everything worked to schedule and the lunch and venue were also a great choice!’

Trial By Jury Within one hour from London

Courtroom dramas are always popular, from Crown Court set in London in the 1970s to The Accused in 2023. We set up a murder trial, in which you act as prosecutor, defence and jury. A robed judge oversees proceedings and explains a case to you. Evidence is put forward, and three witnesses appear in the dock. You cross-examine them and then, at the end of the event, each team delivers their verdict. You can cut the atmosphere with a knife as one by one they declare guilty or not guilty. Will you reach a verdict that qualifies as ‘beyond reasonable doubt’? Moorhouse Consulting chose this event, and Rebecca send this feedback; ‘The Team Building Company ran Trial by Jury for us as an after work team builder. It was easy to set up, interesting to try something different and costumes / accents / script were highly entertaining!’

Millionaire By Midnight Within one hour from London

Millionaire By Midnight involves a selection of activities that can be played over the evening with the aim of making fun money and becoming, as a team, a millionaire by midnight. Games can include Giant Scalextric, Roulette, Poker and Air Hockey. You can add an extra element of entertainment by having your own fun money printed. Whose face would you put on the notes? Working with us really takes the pressure off an event organiser, as this feedback from a client shows; ‘huge thanks to you both for organising such a brilliant event yesterday. Jim and his team were absolutely brilliant and everyone had a great time. It really takes the pressure off me as the company-facing side of the organisation process, when I have you guys working to produce such a well-organised activity and in such a professional manner. I will definitely be keeping you in mind for the next time we have an event such as this – really great.’

Outdoor Team Building Events Within one hour from London

Travelling an hour from London really opens up the options when it comes to organising a team building event. One of our most popular locations is Richmond. There are spaces here that we can hire where we can run some of our larger scale team building events, for example, It’s A Knockout, Crystal Challenge and Country Sports. We can even set up large format Family Fun Days.  KPMG booked a Country Sports Day; ‘Thank you very much, we had a great day and the whole team enjoyed every minute (although we weren’t very good at most of the activities).  It was really well organised, a good amount of time spent on each activity and all three facilitators were brilliant.’ Brew Agency chose a Crystal Challenge, and shared this feedback; ‘The Crystal Challenge was a great success. Everyone really enjoyed it and we received lots of positive feedback. Such a variety of challenges meant everyone got involved and people were skilled at different tasks. Great staff to support each activity and everything ran smoothly. Thank you to The Team Building Company for a wonderful event.’ This feedback makes the really good point that having different activities means that there is something for every skill set.

Indoor Team Building Events Within one hour from London

According to Forbes magazine 44% of adults in the UK gamble. It could be that the remaining 56% are too sensible to try their hand, or it may be that they are worried about losing their money playing a game that they are not familiar with. Our fun Casino gives you the chance to experience games like Roulette and Black Jack without risking a penny. We play with fun money, so there are just prizes for the high roller, and no sleepless nights for the losers. Here is an interesting fact that may come up in our Quizmania next generation quiz. The first commercial strawberry, which is a hybrid of the European strawberry and a species from Chilli, was cultivated in greenhouses of Moor Green Mansion in Watford, not far from London. Perhaps our Bake Off event is right for your team, and strawberries may very well feature. We provide a field bakery for each of your teams with everything that you will need. You simply need to create the show stopper! LV chose this event, and their feedback was short but sweet enough; ‘a great afternoon was had by all.’ To see the full range of our indoor team building events go to the tab at the top of the page.

Evening Team Building Events Within one hour from London

If you want a pre-dinner evening team building event what could be better than our Cocktail Making? We provide a cocktail bar and a skilled cocktail making expert. You can have alcoholic classics, or new ‘mocktails’. JTI chose this event; ‘We all had a really great time at our off-site team build.  Everybody thoroughly enjoyed themselves at the Cocktail / Mocktail event.  Our host was really, really very good.  He was clear and concise and made sure everybody enjoyed themselves.’
Our Murder Mystery is another indoor event. We have various scripts for you to choose from. You can travel back in time to the 1920s with one of our classics or enjoy a forensic twist with our contemporary Crime Scene Investigation. Invensys chose a Murder Mystery to entertain them over lunch; ‘I want to say a big thank you to you and your team for a wonderful day on Friday. I have received some amazing feedback and it was thoroughly enjoyed by all.  All the tables joined in with the spirit of the plot and it added that extra dimension to the lunch.’ These events are all available at locations less than one hour’s travel from London.

Icebreaker Team Building Events Within one hour from London

Icebreakers simply break the ice, and help people to get into a conference with a positive energy. We have a good selection of Icebreaker events for team building including Drumming, which is a short and snappy version of our full team building event and available at various locations within one hour from London. Each member of the audience has a drum, and the challenge is to beat in harmony. One client said this after their event; ‘The event was absolutely fantastic thanks. We do have some people who can be slightly negative about things so I was slightly concerned as to how it would go down but it was a great success.  I’m only aware of three people who were not impressed but they would not have been impressed with anything we had done.  Everybody else totally threw themselves into it and were buzzing afterwards.  I got loads of very good comments.’ That will have to be anonymous, but it does make a good point. Team building and icebreaking events are not universally appreciated, and some have had bad experiences in the past. We aim to overcome that, and provide enjoyable experiences that people will appreciate. 

Company Fun Days Within one hour from London

Fun is in our corporate DNA, but the Company Fun Day is a particular type of team building event. It is often open to the families of employees. We have sites in Richmond and close to Watford which can host these large, colourful events. We provide a selection of activities which can include Country Sports such as Laser Clay Shooting and Archery, and inflatable games such as our very popular Human Table Football. You can even run an It’s A Knockout Tournament as part of the day’s fun and games. The venue will provide catering and you will have a memorable day that will delight everyone. Anadarko chose a Country Sports theme for their fun day; ‘All the guests had a fabulous time, and I had some excellent feedback on both the archery and duck herding, which were both superb at getting my guests to relax and really get into the spirit of the day.  Your staff did an amazing job of making sure that anyone who wanted to had a go and enjoyed the activities,’ We can work at any location within one hour from London that is not a public space and that passes our risk assessment, so if you have already chosen a location that is fine.

Company Away Days Within one hour from London

London’s excellent transport connects make an away day a relatively easy thing to organise. We recommend letting the train take the strain, although coaches can be useful if everyone needs to be picked up from a specific location. DCCES suffered a bit of inclement weather on their away day; ‘The feedback from the Team building has been really positive and I think everyone enjoyed the day (despite the afternoons rain!).  It met all of our objectives in terms of providing a fun environment for our two teams to work together and meet in a social environment.  The activities were a great mix with something for everyone.’ Rain is something that sometimes cannot be avoided in this lovely green country. Plastic disposable macs are very useful, just in case. The dreaded three are hungry, cold and tired. If participants are feeling two of those things then they will be unhappy, if it is three then the event will be a disaster. We will ensure that there are hot drinks and food if the weather conspires against you, and that our instructors energise and make everyone feel looked after. With 35 years of experience of events, and almost every situation, you can rely on us to overcome any obstacles.

Company Team Building Within one hour from London 

Allowing a bit of travel time literally opens up the field in terms of which activities can be booked. The restrictions of the city centre disappear, and green spaces are available for team building events all within an hour’s travel of London. CCHA booked a Hostage event, which was the forerunner to our Cyber Heist Treasure Hunt. The world changed, and we decided that we could not safely go around taking hostages anymore, so we replaced hostages with a virus. We can still take the room by storm which really adds an element of fun; ‘we would all like to thank all of you for a great day, everybody had a great experience with the hostage treasure hunt. After the initial shock (lol) I think everybody joined in and really enjoyed the day.’ Country Sports is another popular company team building event. Travers Smith chose this; ‘it was a super day and everyone that partook of the shooting really enjoyed it.  Bruce and the instructors were fantastic.  I noticed that they really were schooling the delegates each and every time they had a go and this meant that they got better and better with each opportunity to shoot.  I know that some of them were even talking about taking up lessons which shows how excited they were.’ 

Competitive Team Building Events Within one hour from London

We have collaborative events, where teams must work on a joint objective. Then we have competitive events and the level of competition will vary with the culture of different clients’ companies. Some, it must be said, are really competitive and they will really try hard to win one of our winners’ medals. NBC Universal made us smile with their feedback; ‘I ran into several colleagues on Friday proudly wearing their medals and I can tell everyone had a great time.’ We also received a ‘complaint’ from another super competitive client at Sovereign Housing; ‘Yesterday’s chocolate making event was a huge success, a little messy at times but thoroughly enjoyed by all of the team. Just one complaint though … my table didn’t win.’ Stocks and Shares is another competitive team building event. It is a large scale stock market simulation; ‘I would like to say a very big thank you to you and your team for a very successful ‘Stock and Shares evening’. Peter and his team were a pleasure to work with and they really got the measure of our students and how to get the most from them.  Everyone really enjoyed themselves and the resounding sentiment of the evening was “that was so much fun!”.’

Creative Team Building Events & Activities Within one hour from London

Creativity is one of the more common qualities of our events, and people are often doing something for the first time. Animaniacs is a very creative team building event in which teams make a short film, usually two or three minutes in length, using Stop Motion technology and clay models. Think Morph, Wallace and Gromit or, if you have really excellent taste, Trapdoor. The films are shown at the end of the event and this is always enjoyed very much with a lot of in jokes and laughter. It is surprising what you can learn from in jokes, and managers always watch these films with great interest. BAT chose two creative events; ‘The team really enjoyed the roller coaster activity - it was a great metaphor for what we are trying to do to build one product community here at BAT.  Boomwhackers was the perfect energiser on day two, delivered with great enthusiasm and humour by Mark.  Again this really helped to put the challenge into context and really set the scene for an invigorating day.’ Fun is important, but there is so much more to our events. Whatever your business objectives we can help you to align with them on your team building event.

Charity Team Building Events Within one hour from London 

Charity Team Building events give your company the opportunity to align your day with your corporate social responsibility goals. You might build a bicycle or a skateboard and donate this to a good cause, or sell it to raise money for a team donation. Tour De Team is a good event to look at. We can also put together a bespoke event working with a local charity. We have run projects to create a sensory garden, renovate a classroom and we have worked with animal charities to build enclosures. We can help you with every aspect including the activity, catering and health and safety. We liaised with Paradise Wildlife Park, now Hertfordshire Zoo, to build a tiger enclosure with one client. The zoo has event rooms where you can organise an evening event after your day of hard work, to celebrate your achievement and enjoy one of our team building evening events. Charity team building events are very rewarding and there are plenty of opportunities within one hour from London where teams can make a lasting difference by supporting important charitable causes. Larger project do need a bit of lead time, so call us as early as possible if this type of event is required.