When the daily work grind starts to wear down your team, sometimes a change of scenery is exactly what they need. Or if you’re leading a remote team, a team get-together can bridge the gap between working remotely and maintaining a positive, dynamic company culture.
Company off-site activities are a great way to get out of the office, boost employee engagement and shake things up for the better.
Benefits of team building activities outside the office
Fun off-site team building activities boost employee mood and morale.
Off-site environments offer an immersive experience with fewer interruptions or distractions.
Shared challenges and achievements can boost job satisfaction and overall productivity.
Staff off-site activities can help improve communication and cooperation amongst employees.
Off-site activities are an opportunity to reveal hidden talents and untapped skills within the team
23 Extremely Fun Company Off-Site Activities
We offer a wide variety of company off-site ideas so you can choose the most appropriate activity to involve everyone in your team. Here is a list of our top company off-site activities:
1. Soap Box Derby
If you’ve got a need for speed but the office chairs can’t keep up, our Soap Box Derby team building event is the perfect out of the office team building activity.
You and your team will participate in whacky games and challenges to accumulate points and earn parts to build a unique race car. After you plan, design and decorate your kart, wheel out into the arena and go head-to-head with other teams as you race around the winding track. The best decorated and fastest teams will be celebrated in an exciting awards ceremony!
Get in touch with a member of our team if you think you’ve got what it takes!
2. Under Pressure
Under Pressure is a thrilling staff off-site activity, where teams participate in nail-biting challenges, working together to dominate the leader board. After a dramatic game show-style entrance from your host, you will have the opportunity to practice with your team in a variety of tasks. Here’s a sneak peek:
- Test your reflexes and speed as you separate red and white balls against the clock into separate containers.
- Stop the giant timer with amazing precision.
- Climb over barriers whilst blindfolded.
The competition gets a little more intense after this, as you go head-to-head against opposing teams in the game zone. Remember, the more points you get, the better your chances to become the winning team!
How well does your team work under pressure? Get a free, bespoke proposal today!
3. The Crystal Team Challenge
Whether you are looking for an indoor or outdoor company off-site activity, our Crystal Team Challenge is the perfect activity for groups of all sizes. With four activity zones, each featuring two different mental or physical challenges, teams will rotate through the zones, going head-to-head with other teams to earn crystals. These crystals will be essential in the final round, as they will total your time in the cash grabber dome.
Are you ready to crack the mysteries of the crystal?
Speak to a member of our team for a free, bespoke proposal!
4. Company Fun Day
Looking for personalised staff off-site activity ideas? Our Company Fun Day is the ultimate way to create a fun-filled day that is suitable for everyone! Whether you’re looking for something to ignite the competitive spirit within your team or a series of laid-back, fun activities, corporate fun days are a great way to escape the office and do something out of the ordinary.
With a range of crazy inflatables, giant garden games, and lots of other entertainment options, our team will be on-hand to deliver your perfect company off-site event. You can either choose one of our recommended packages, or we can help you create a pick-n-mix company away day with activities such as Archery, Axe Throwing, GPS Treasure Hunt, Inflatable Fun and more!
Get in touch to start building your bespoke company fun day today!
5. Betrayers
Betrayers is a unique off-site team building event concept where employees hide their identities in a game of deception and strategy, aiming to outwit their way to victory. You will collaborate with your team to outperform the other teams whilst you race against the clock. There will be a series of intense problem-solving rounds, including:
- Cipher Challenge - Solve the puzzle to crack the codes on lock boxes.
- Quest for Riches - With an interactive scavenger hunt map, find the items to collect the money.
- Melodic Mystery - Can you identify these tricky musical tones?
- In the final round, you will be tested as a team whilst you weasel out the betrayer of the group. Will it be you?
Get in touch today for a free, bespoke proposal!
6. GPS Treasure Hunt
What better location for an off-site team building activity than the beautiful outdoors? Whether it’s in the countryside, in a town, or in a big city, your team will have a blast in our popular GPS Treasure Hunt. In this dynamic team building event, teams will be armed with high-tech tablets and embark on an outdoor adventure, navigating the local area and working together to solve puzzles and complete fun challenges.
As teams work their way across the map, they will race against the clock to unlock secret checkpoints and tackle challenges such as photo or video tasks and brain-busting puzzles, all to earn as many points as possible and claim victory.
Are you ready to dive into the thrill of the treasure hunt? Get in touch today!
7. It’s a Knockout
Full of inflatables, competition and music, it’s time to enter the exciting arena of It’s a Knockout! This team building event is packed with oversized obstacles, funny costumes and hilarious activities, guaranteed to bring your team together with laughter.
This fun off-site team building activity starts off with a high-energy warm-up with our instructors. Teams will then navigate through the different challenge zones, competing head-to-head as they flop, tumble, slip, face plant and laugh their way through activities such as Bungee Run, Gladiator Joust, Foot Darts, Sweeper Arm and more – to earn points and become the winning team.
If you’re ready to get messy, speak to a member of our team for a free, bespoke quote in less than 45 minutes.
8. Kidnap your MD
We might have taken the “off-site” concept a bit too literally with this company team building event. Kidnap your MD kicks off with a dramatic kidnapping simulation, where your MD will be dragged away by a group of notoriously known criminals, leaving behind clues to help you save the day. Upon meeting witnesses and suspects, you’ll engage in real-life forensic investigations, analysing fibres, bloodstains and deciphering cryptic puzzles to uncover a ransom note. The challenge is, can you find your MD and rescue the day whilst bringing these criminals to justice?
9. Challenge 100
Perhaps you have 100 things to juggle whilst you’re in the office, but if you’re looking for a distraction, our Challenge 100 event is the perfect company off-site event idea. With more than 100 fun and interactive games, across five different zones, you and your teammates will be challenged to complete as many tasks as possible within the given time. Either complete a task as an individual or within a team across the sports, creative, sensory, child’s play and brain busters zones!
If you would like to find out more, speak to one of our event specialists today.
10. Charity Bike Build
The Charity Bike Build is an incredibly meaningful staff off-site event idea where you and your team can make a real impact. As one of our most popular charity team building events, you will assemble bicycles that will be donated to children in need after the event.
The day begins with a brief from your event manager and the chosen charity. Your group will then be divided into teams, with each member playing a crucial role in the success of the team and the overall charity effort.
To earn the necessary parts to build each bicycle, teams have to complete fun challenges and games. With the toolkit in hand and the excitement building, you’ll need some elbow grease to assemble the bikes, making them ready and safe for a deserving child to ride.
Are you ready to make a difference? Get in touch today!
11. Putt for a Purpose
Putt for a Purpose is a unique mini-golf event with an incredible outcome. Join us for an extraordinary charity team building event that takes you beyond the office walls and into the heart of your community, all for a fantastic cause.
This fun off-site team building activity provides teams with a variety of care package items, from everyday household items to cans of food and boxes of cereals. You will have to work together to plan, design and create a unique and challenging golf hole. Once every team completes their hole, you will go head-to head in a fun mini-golf competition around the brand-new course. Once the event has concluded, the GOTO Events team will pack up all the items and donate them to the nominated charity.
Ready to putt for a purpose? Get in touch for a free, bespoke proposal!
12. Olympic Sports Day
The excitement of the Olympics begins with this fun and exciting off-site team building event. The Olympic Sports Day engages your team in dynamic Olympic-themed activities that will fire up the competition in everyone.
The day kicks off with each team creating their own flag to symbolise their team spirit and their team identity. You are now one. Each team will then compete head-to-head against other teams across a range of fun team building challenges such as Human Table Football, Assault Course, Races, Field Games and a thrilling Tug of War finale.
The gold medal is calling! Speak to a member of our team today to request a free, bespoke proposal.
13. The Gladiator
Gladiators and contenders. Who will be crowned the winners in this challenging yet hilarious team building activity outside the office? Starting off with an entertaining warm-up, teams will go head-to-head in a series of action-packed challenges to earn as many points as possible. This fun staff off-site activity is guaranteed to have everyone in fits of laughter while boosting overall team morale.
Can you channel your inner superhero in the Bungee Run challenge? Do you have the speed to race against the clock and retrieve the puzzle pieces along a wild obstacle course? Can you keep your balance while using a padded pugil stick to knock your opponent off their pedestal?
Get in touch to request the full event details and costs!
14. Generation Game
If you’re a game show enthusiast, you’ll love the Generation Game team building event! Inspired by the most popular game shows on TV, Generation Game is packed with interactive, hilarious and competitive rounds. Complete with a charismatic host, giggles are guaranteed while you and your team try to conquer the challenges: Black/White Cat, Countdown Conundrums, Family Fortunes, Don’t Show Keith your Teeth, Peekaboo, Masked Dancer, Higher or Lower – just to mention a few.
15. School Sports Day
Sweatbands, war stripes, coloured bibs – we’re bringing back the nostalgia with our School Sports Day company off-site activity. Get stuck in your favourite school sports day games like Three-Legged Race, Tug of War and more! Your group will be split into teams and will compete head-to-head in each activity zone to earn as many points as possible.
Get in touch with our team for a bespoke quote in under 45 minutes.
16. Archery and Duck Herding
Archery and Duck Herding is an exciting outdoor off-site team building activity, where you and your team will learn the skills of archery as well as duck herding. Don‘t worry, we keep our archers and ducks separate!
As you and your team rotate around the two activities, you will become masters in giving instructions to a well-trained sheep dog to guide our ducks around an obstacle course, then you will be given traditional longbows and learn how to shoot over a large distance. It will be harder than it sounds but it’s also a lot more fun!
Get in touch with our team for a bespoke quote in under 45 minutes.
17. Escape Rooms
Our Escape Rooms team building events feature a range of different storylines and settings for a unique and thrilling staff-off site event! From The Science Lab to The Bunker, The Island and Prison Break, we offer a range of fully mobile escape rooms that we can set up in your office or at a chosen venue.
You and your team will work together, cracking the clues and interpreting the information provided to find your way out of the escape room. But remember, you’re not the only team trying to escape! The team that breaks out in the shortest time will be crowned the winners!
Get started by getting in touch today.
18. Master of the Tasks
If you’re looking for a barrel of laughs and a day to remember, our Master of the Tasks team building event is for you! This company off-site event idea is full of goofy challenges and games that everyone can get involved in. With witty commentary from the comedic compere throughout the event, you and your team will be competing against other teams to earn as many points as possible in challenges such as Condiment Caricature, Smartie Pants, Blindfold Balloon and more!
It’s time to get out of the office and do something completely out of the ordinary. Get in touch to find out more about this event!
19. Quid Games
Step into the world of Quid Games with this suspense-filled company offsite event idea. Each team will go head-to-head in a series of immersive team building activities, where you need to use your mental, practical and creative abilities to escape the Quid Games world. How much money can your team add to the fishbowl by the end of the day?
Get in touch with our team for a bespoke quote in under 45 minutes.
20. Everest Challenge
In this exhilarating team building activity outside of the office, you and your team will enter the Everest Challenge simulation, embarking on a series of games and activities that will teach you the journey of a mountaineer and test if you have what it takes to reach the summit.
Guided by our highly trained instructors, your team will tackle feats of endurance, skill and dedication needed to conquer this adventure. Learn which items to pack in your rucksack, how to set up base camp with the chilling winds nipping at your ankles, how to place oxygen canisters in the right spots up the mountain, and how to tie the all-important knots that could save your life.
Are you ready to start your adventure to the top? Get in touch today.
21. Bakeathon
For baking enthusiasts and beginners alike, our Bakeathon team building event is a fantastic way to learn how to bake from a Michelin star-trained chef and get to know your colleagues better through some sweet challenges. In this fun offsite team building activity, don your apron, closely observe the chef’s demonstration and roll up your sleeves to start your own baking journey.
Your creations will be judged and scored by our chefs, with medals and bragging rights for the winning team!
Get in touch with our team for a bespoke quote in under 45 minutes.
22. Cocktail Making
It’s cocktails o’clock with our famous Cocktail Making team building event. This off-site event idea is great for groups that want a hands-on and interactive experience while having fun with their team. Guided by our dedicated mixologists, you and your team will learn how to make cocktails with precision, accuracy and flair! Not only will you be able to take this new-found knowledge home with you, but it’s a great way to get out of the office and get to know your colleagues in an energised and fun setting.
Do you want to master the art of mixology? Get in touch with our team for a free, bespoke proposal.
23. Outdoor Adrenaline
Outdoor Adrenaline staff off-site event offers a day packed with outdoor activities designed to push you and your team out of your comfort zones. We have a wide range of team activities with something for everyone. Whether that’s trying to hit the bullseye on target archery, racing on the off-road buggies, testing your driving skills on the quad bike trail or scoring the winning goal in Human Table Football, it all boils down to the one thing – fun!
Get in touch with a member of our team to get personalised ideas and prices.
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