If you’ve been tasked with planning a corporate team building event on short notice or have left it to the last minutes and need ideas fast, don’t worry! Here are 15 last-minute team building activities that will save the day and make your event a massive hit!
Before diving into the list of last-minute team building ideas, think about these questions:
- How many people are likely to attend?
- What type of activities does your team enjoy?
- Will the event be indoors or outdoors?
- What is the purpose of the event?
If you’re unsure, don’t fret! Our expert event managers are ready to help you plan a fun and effective last-minute team building activity.
How to Organise a Last-Minute Team Building Event
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Contact the experts
Tell us a bit about your team, the group size, your goals, preferences and budget. Our team will quickly create a personalised proposal with custom ideas and costs in under 45 minutes.
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Pick an activity
Choose from a curated list of activities tailored to your brief. We’ll customise the events to meet your preferences and answer any questions you have.
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Enjoy your team building day
After booking, we’ll handle everything from sourcing the venue to arranging logistics. We’ll bring all the necessary equipment to you so sit back, relax, and look forward to an unforgettable experience, arranged faster than you can say “last minute”.
1. Under Pressure Team Building Activity
Step into the excitement of our Under Pressure indoor team building event, where participants tackle thrilling tasks in a full-sized inflatable arena, both individually and in teams. Teams will face off in head-to-head challenges to boost their chances of winning. With easy-to-join tasks like memory games, dexterity challenges and precision tests, everyone can participate, but only one team will claim victory!
This engaging team building activity promotes team bonding and guarantees plenty of fun for all employees. Suitable for any group size, our professional event management team will seamlessly set up the game in your chosen venue, complete with visual lighting and music.
![Under Pressure indoor team building activity inside red cube](https://www.gotoevents.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Qubed-indoor-team-building-activity-uai-2134x1067.webp)
2. Betrayers Team Building Activity
Get ready for an exciting indoor team building experience where teamwork is key to outperforming the competition before time runs out. This action-packed event features four intriguing rounds of riddles, puzzles and a scavenger hunt including:
- Enigma: Solve riddles quickly to earn extra points.
- Cipher Challenge: Race against the clock to crack codes and solve puzzles.
- Quest For Riches: Navigate an interactive map in a lively scavenger hunt.
But here’s the twist – some of your teammates are secretly working against you, ready to sabotage your efforts. If you’re the chosen one, will you play fair or do whatever it takes to win? The Betrayer team building event wraps up with a fun award ceremony, celebrating teamwork and competitive spirit.
![Betrayers team building problem-solving challange around the table](https://www.gotoevents.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Betrayers-team-building-problem-solving-challange-around-the-table-uai-1156x578.webp)
3. Master of the Tasks Team Building Activity
Get ready to laugh out loud with Master of the Tasks, a hilarious indoor team building activity. Hosted by our charismatic compere, teams will embark on a series of quirky challenges, with each round judged by the host. The tasks are unveiled as teams open their golden envelopes, ensuring surprises for everyone! Highlights include:
- Condiment Caricature: Use ketchup, mustard, mint sauce, and more to create a portrait of a team member. Can the judge guess who it is?
- Blindfolded Balloon: Inflate the largest balloon blindfolded. If it pops, you’re out!
- Smartie Pants: Wear boxing gloves and sort smarties by colour.
Join in the fun and see who will be crowned the ultimate Master of the Tasks!
![People smiling holding balloons on stage in Master of the Tasks team building event.](https://www.gotoevents.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Master-of-the-tasks-balloon-challenge-uai-1600x800.webp)
4. Quid Games Team Building Activity
Quid Games team building event brings your employees together to tackle a series of exciting challenges. The aim is to earn money to fill each team’s fishbowl. The team that collects the most money by the end wins their prize in a fun medal ceremony.
Enjoy the lively atmosphere with watchful red-costume guards and suspenseful music – it’s all about fun, no violence here! Get ready for a variety of fun and thrilling games, some familiar and some totally new and original!
With a dedicated event manager and crew on-site, we guarantee a successful indoor team building event.
![people stepping on glass bridge in quid games team building event](https://www.gotoevents.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/quid-games-glass-bridge-team-building-event-uai-2000x1000.webp)
5. Charity Bike Build Team Building Activity
Join us for our Charity Bike Build event – a rewarding team building activity that unites your employees for a great cause. Teams will assemble bicycles from scratch using provided bike parts, stands and tool kits. This challenge fosters collaboration as each team member plays a vital role in crafting the build plan. Through engaging activities and games, teams earn the parts and equipment necessary to complete their bikes.
Each bicycle becomes a unique creation, with participants adding personalised messages to the front. After the event, the bicycles are donated to a charity of your choice, making a meaningful impact in the lives of deserving children.
![Assembled bike with personalized message after charity bike build team building](https://www.gotoevents.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Charity-Bike-Build-bike-uai-1600x800.webp)
6. Putt for a Purpose Team Building Activity
Get ready for a mini-golf experience like no other! We’ve revamped the classic game with a creative and charitable twist. Instead of playing on a standard course, teams will unleash their creativity by building their own mini-golf holes using food bank items like cans and cereal boxes.
Collaborate with your team to design and construct a unique and challenging hole that showcases your imagination. Once all the holes are ready, it’s time to putt your way to victory and compete for the top spot!
But the excitement doesn’t stop there! After the game, teams dismantle the course and all materials used are donated to a charity of your choice.
![people building mini gold hole with cereal boxes in charity team building event](https://www.gotoevents.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/build-and-play-charity-mini-golf-uai-600x300.webp)
7. Teamopoly Team Building Activity
Imagine stepping into a life-sized board game adventure! Teamopoly is our larger-than-life team building edition of the beloved classic, hosted by none other than Mr. Monopoly himself!
Your group will be divided into teams, each representing a giant Teamopoly player token: iron, wheelbarrow, car or top hat. Navigate the board and tackle exciting team building challenges overseen by Mr. Monopoly. Each challenge aims to either fill or empty your pockets with Monopoly change. From staging a daring jailbreak to hitting the jackpot and outwitting the banker, every moment is brought to life with live actors and oversized props, ensuring an unforgettable day of fun and camaraderie!
![Teamopoly indoor team building activity giant monopoly on grass](https://www.gotoevents.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Teamopoly-indoor-team-building-activity-uai-2134x1067.webp)
8. Crystal Team Challenge Team Building Activity
Get ready for The Crystal Team Challenge, a mix of physical skills and mental agility with hilarious games guaranteed to keep your team laughing! Teams compete across four themed zones – Aztec, Futuristic, Industrial and Medieval – in a series of exciting tasks to earn crystals. With the clock ticking and the competition heating up, the challenge is on!
The culmination is the thrilling Cash Grabber challenge inside the giant inflatable Dome. Teams take turns competing to grab gold tickets while avoiding silver ones, which deduct points from their total score. It’s an exhilarating finale to see who emerges victorious!
![Group of employees at summer team building activity](https://www.gotoevents.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/The-Crystal-Team-Challenge-dome-and-crowd-uai-901x450.webp)
9. Survival Island Team Building Activity
Your team is stranded on a remote island with no civilization in sight. Your challenge: survive with only what you can scavenge from the beach.
Survival Island outdoor team building challenge offers a unique team building experience that guarantees an unforgettable day for your employees. After an inspiring opening presentation based on a real-life survival story, teams receive basic materials and equipment. They then face a series of survival tasks that engage every team member. Using natural resources and skills taught by our experts, teams must showcase resourcefulness, ingenuity and teamwork. Challenges include fire lighting, shelter building, stretcher rescue, knot tying and water purification.
![Women being carried by team in survivor island team building event for summer](https://www.gotoevents.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Survival-uai-1080x540.png)
10. Soap Box Derby Team Building Activity
Get ready for an adrenaline-fuelled outdoor team building adventure as you become a wacky racer on a thrilling obstacle course!
In Soap Box Derby, unleash your tech and creative skills to design, build and decorate your cart while keeping the playful spirit alive. It’s not just about speed (though it helps!). After qualifying rounds, teams dive into design workshops to purchase parts and materials to craft and style their racers. Creativity and innovation take center stage, with points awarded for impressive designs.
All teams must compete in heats and pass an MOT inspection before they can race in the exciting final showdown!
![people with funny hats driving soapbox cars in outdoor team building activity](https://www.gotoevents.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Soap-Box-Derby-Race-uai-1920x960.jpg)
11. Masterpiece Team Building Activity
Get hands on in a collective project where your team will create an original giant painting – the Masterpiece. Your team will be divided into groups, each tasked with painting their own canvas tile. The event kicks off with various challenges to earn money, which teams can use to purchase materials for their masterpieces. Once the funds are allocated, the shop opens, allowing teams to buy paints and brushes needed to complete their tiles.
After all tiles are finished, the event crew assembles them for a grand reveal of your company’s collaborative masterpiece! Best of all, you get to take home the artwork to display wherever you choose after the event.
![Group of people painting on canvas with water colours on Masterpiece creative team building event](https://www.gotoevents.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Masterpiece-painting-uai-1387x693.webp)
12. GPS Treasure Hunt Team Building Activity
Can your team crack the clues of the treasure hunt and navigate to victory? It’ll be a nail-biter, but we promise laughter, silliness and a guaranteed good time for all!
Each team gets a high-tech tablet pre-loaded with our bespoke GPS app. The app is your key to unlocking the secrets of the treasure hunt, guiding you along a fully interactive, real-time map. Using cryptic clues, you’ll strategise your way across the route, uncovering secret checkpoints before your rivals. Each location holds a surprise challenge – anything from a photo task to a brain-busting puzzle to earn points for your team.
We custom-create each scavenger hunt team building activity to fit your chosen location, whether it’s a city or countryside treasure hunt.
![team posing for GP treasure hunt team building challenge in St James's Square](https://www.gotoevents.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/GPS-treasure-hunt-challange-1-uai-1386x693.webp)
13. Crime Scene Experience Team Building Activity
There’s been a murder! Can you and your team solve the crime? In our Crime Scene Experience team building activity, participants are grouped into teams, racing to be the first to find the killer. Dressed in white bodysuits and surgical gloves, teams will read up on suspects and interpret clues, such as taking fingerprints, creating FBI-style photos from descriptions, inspecting hair fibers and analysing blood spatters.
Immerse yourself in a true crime scene atmosphere, with various forensic zones packed with clues and evidence. Use your skills to eliminate suspects and get closer to identifying the murderer. In the final round, all teams present their conclusions, including the murder weapon and motive.
![crime scene experience team building event](https://www.gotoevents.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/CSI-Crime-Scene-scaled-uai-2560x1280.jpg)
14. Wall Street Winners Team Building Activity
Wall Street Winners is a thrilling team building activity, perfect for finance teams or any group involved in strategic decision-making.
In this engaging event, teams start with a set amount of money to invest. Our charismatic Wall Street trading host will present various companies where participants can buy shares. Teams must quickly decide which shares to buy and sell to maximise profits. Throughout the event, news announcements displayed on the screen can impact share values, keeping everyone on their toes.
The team that ends with the most money and the strongest empire wins. It’s noisy, fast-pace, and will even have your quietest team members rushing to negotiate deals!
![wall street winners team building activity for work from goto events](https://www.gotoevents.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/wall-street-winners-team-building-activity-for-work-uai-1000x500.jpg)
15. Ultimate Quiz Team Building Activity
With our Ultimate Quiz team building activity, your team will dive into a fun, competitive, yet friendly trivia game. Hosted by our lively and charming host, this isn’t your typical quiz!
Packed with rounds from your favorite quiz shows like Catchphrase, A League of Their Own, The Krypton Factor, Pointless and The Chase, this quiz promises non-stop entertainment. Your employees will pool their diverse knowledge to tackle each challenge while having a blast and bonding in a memorable experience.
![Ultimate Quiz Team 4](https://www.gotoevents.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/helium_philadelphia_comedyclub_photobyThomCarroll-uai-800x400.jpg)
These are just a glimpse into the variety of corporate team building events we offer. With over 100 activities to choose from, we can help you find the perfect one for your team!
No venue secured for your last-minute team building event?
Don’t panic! We partner with over 5,000 venues across the UK and guarantee to find a venue within 15 minutes of your office, at no extra cost! We’ll bring all the event equipment, along with an experienced event manager and crew, to execute your event from start to finish anywhere in the UK!