Feeling overwhelmed organising your team building day for a large group? While the benefits of large group activities are plentiful, the planning stress can be daunting. Enter Team Tactics! We listen to your needs, ease the stress, boost morale and ensure success for your team building day. Explore our 25 impactful team building activities for large groups to engage your workforce. Let’s enhance your team dynamics and productivity together – start a conversation with one of the team today.
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Benefits Of Team Building Activities For Large Groups
Building Connections
Strengthening team cohesion and bonds between team members can improve their productivity in the workplace. Participating together on a fun and engaging activity is an excellent way for team members to develop stronger bonds.
Bringing An Organisation Together
In a larger organisation, many employees might only interact with their immediate working groups on a day-to-day basis. A large-scale team building activity provide the opportunity for delegates to get to know other members of their wider team.
Boosting Company Culture And Identity
Bringing together the wider organisation or branch to participate in the same activity can help create a sense of togetherness among delegates that will benefit team ethos and workplace morale through a sense of belonging.
How To Set Up A Team Building Event For Bigger Groups
1. Define Your Group
You will need to decide who within your organisation who you would like to attend the event and from this, what your expected attendance might be.
2. Plan Your Location
Once you know who you would like to attend to attend, this will help you can think about logistics and what locations are realistic for your group to travel to. If you have a conference or other event organised, you may be able to combine this with a team building event or conference energiser.
3. Decide When Your Event Will Be Held
What time of year your event will be held will affect considerations such as whether to have an indoor or outdoor event. Consider school holidays as well as religious and national holidays which may affect attendance.
4. Choose Your Event
What activity will most engage your group and best achieve your goals? Is your focus on improving specific skills such as teamwork or communication, a reward for your staff, building team bonds or perhaps multiple goals? It can be hard to know where to begin but this is where Team Tactics can help with our large group team building ideas below.
5. Plan The Logistics
With your activity decided; you will need to plan how your group will get to the activity, whether you will organise transport for the group or whether they will make their own way there. If the latter, you must ensure that your group know what time they will need to arrive for the activity (maybe allow a time-window for those who are notoriously late!).
25 Best Team Building Activities For Large Groups
Team Tactics offer an incredible choice of activities which can accommodate large group sizes, whether you are looking for a 2 – 3 hour activity or a full-day event. These event choices all help promote qualities transferrable to the work place such as communication and problem solving. They are fun, energising and in some cases charitable but all are excellent for engaging large groups.
Build A Bike Charity
- Group Size: 10 – 500 people
- Duration: 2 – 3 hours
- Location: Mobile event across the UK
Working in small teams to assemble bikes for less fortunate children; delegates must first earn the parts for their bikes with a series of fun challenges including guiding a blindfolded teammate around an obstacle course on a tricycle and the hilarious slow race. This is an event filled with laughter that requires close teamwork and provides an opportunity to make a difference.
Give A Helping Hand – The Hand Project
- Group Size: 12 – 500 people
- Duration: 2 – 3 hours
- Location: Mobile event across the UK
This is a chance to do something incredibly positive – creating prosthetic hands for those in the developing world with missing limbs. The hands themselves are made from 50 pieces of high-grade plastic and metal, which your group will assemble, working in small teams of three or four. This is an excellent activity for building teamwork and is incredibly rewarding – transforming the lives of those receiving the hands.
The Apprentice Charity Treasure Hunt
- Group Size: 10 – 500 people
- Duration: 2 – 3 hours
- Location: City, Southbank and Covent Garden
A treasure hunt with a difference, this event will test your business know-how, negotiation and planning skills as you stretch your budget to try and procure as many quality products on your shopping list as possible, with all purchased products donated to homeless charity Porchlight. There’s added excitement with challenges to unlock at location hotspots on your digital treasure hunt maps including location-based questions, strike-a-pose challenges and riddles.
Drumming Workshop
- Group Size: 10 – 500 people
- Duration: 30 minutes – 2 hours
- Location: Mobile event across the UK
Guided by expert percussionists, your group will get to grips with a host of instruments including snare drums, tambourines, cow bells and more. Working with an instructor, in small groups, you will quickly learn the basic beats and rhythms before coming together in a massive musical extravaganza. This therapeutic activity will surprise everyone with what the music they can create together.
The Haka
- Group Size: 20 – 500 people
- Duration: 30 minutes – 1 hour
- Location: Mobile event across the UK
Lead by a Māori tribesmen from the New Zealand tribe with which the famous All Blacks Haka originates; this is a unique opportunity to learn the iconic war dance. Learning this high energy dance with its powerful, assertive moves is incredibly cathartic and will quickly bring even the shyest members of your group out of their shells and leave them feeling empowered.
The Thriller Experience
- Group Size: 30 – 500 people
- Duration: 2 – 3 hours
- Location: Mobile event across the UK
Michael Jackson’s 1983 single ‘Thriller’ and its famous zombie video was an iconic pop masterpiece. On The Thriller experience, your group will learn and perform the Thriller dance in full costume and make up. You will learn the full dance routine from a professional pop choreographer with no previous experience required. This is an unforgettable experience which is fantastic for team bonding and coordination and is an incredible spectacle.
Circus Skills Workshop
- Group Size: 10 – 500 people
- Duration: 2 – 3 hours
- Location: Mobile event across the UK
This is an unmissable opportunity to learn skills including diabolo, juggling, tightrope and stilt-walking which will help delegates gain confidence and self-control that are transferrable to their everyday working lives. Supporting each other through these activities; they will come away with an increased mutual respect for one another and added self-confidence when facing new challenges.
One Voice
- Group Size: 10 – 300 people
- Duration: 1 – 2 hours
- Location: Mobile event across the UK
Get your team singing from the same song sheet in this choral workshop lead by professional singers all from the west-end, film and music industries. Beginning with the basics, before building-in professional harmonies and finally performing a rousing number as one group; the results are uplifting and exhilarating with even those who are adamant that they can’t sing a note coming away amazed at the collective sound they produced.
Robot Wars
- Group Size: 20 – 500 people
- Duration: 2 – 3 hours
- Location: Mobile event across the UK
Inspired by the original ‘Robot Wars’ TV show, this is a chance for teams to pick up their tools and compete to build the all-conquering robot champion. Guided by a former robot wars champion, each team must design, build and customise their machine before taking to the arena for challenges including Football, Defend the Base and Battle Royale, in a test of ingenuity, resourcefulness and teamwork. Will your robot be crowned champion or leave in a binbag?
It’s A Rat Trap
- Group Size: 20 – 70 people
- Duration: 2 hours
- Location: Mobile event across the UK
Inspired by the classic mouse trap board game; this team assembly task will put your group’s teamwork and practical skills to the test as they work together to assemble a giant multi-stage trap. Made up of many parts, the trap involves a complex sequence of moving parts with each ingeniously triggering the next. Correct assembly is crucial, otherwise the trap may not work. There is a great sense of excitement as the trap comes together and a huge feeling of accomplishment when the rat is caught.
Around The World In 80 Minutes
- Group Size: 10 – 500 people
- Duration: 80 minutes
- Location: Mobile event across the UK
A competitive, team challenge event taking your group on a whistle-stop world tour without even leaving the room. Each team is provided with an iPad loaded with an interactive world map. Travelling around the world, they are tested across a range of skills as they answer questions, solve riddles and complete photo and video challenges. In Italy for example, they must build and photograph the tallest pasta tower they can. The interactive app tracks your progress against other teams, adding to the competitive excitement.
Team Quiz
- Group Size: 30 – 500 people
- Duration: 2 – 3 hours
- Location: Mobile event across the UK
Stylishly presented, with studio-style lighting, big screens, a high-quality audio system and a charismatic compere; all contestants on the ream quiz will feel like they are involved in a real TV quiz show. With teams competing against their rival tables to be quiz champions, the Team Quiz event generates a real buzz with guaranteed laughter. Ideal for encouraging teamwork, teammates must engage their collective brains on a choice of one of six quiz options including The Million Pound Drop and The Great British Quiz.
Multi Activity Style Events
- Group Size: 10 – 200 people
- Duration: 2 – 5 hours
- Location: Kent, Oxfordshire, Warwickshire or Berkshire
Treat your team to a fun-filled day outdoors with combination of adrenaline-pumping activities such as archery, raft-building, clay-pigeon shooting and motorised activities including 4×4 driving, quad bikes and hovercraft. These unmissable activities can be combined with buffets and barbeques for what is sure to be an unforgettable day out.
It’s A Knockout
- Group Size: 30 – 500 people
- Duration: 2 – 4 hours
- Location: Mobile event across the UK
Inspired by the BBC’s ‘It’s a Knockout Game’ show with hilarious costumes, wacky obstacles and props – this physically active event, competitive event has been designed to be enjoyed by all ages and abilities. Teams compete for points across many madcap events including fighting through foam to collect socks and running across conveyor belts dressed as 10ft giants with fun and laughter guaranteed!
Dragon Boat Racing
- Group Size: 40 – 200 people
- Duration: 2 – 3 hours
- Location: Various locations across the UK
In this highly competitive event, each team embarks in a traditional dragon boat with an ornately carved head. With a drummer beating the rhythm in each boat, the adrenaline will be pumping hard as all teams row hard in a bid to be first across the line. This exciting event is sure to build camaraderie and teamwork and show everyone what they can achieve when they all pull in the same direction.
Game Set Pedal
- Group Size: 16 – 100 people
- Duration: A full day activity
- Location: Mobile event across the UK
Played on a court between doubles pairs, padel is a sport somewhere between squash and tennis. Easy to learn, it is competitive and highly sociable – the perfect way to bring your group together. This padel event day incorporates morning practice and coaching with a professional player followed by a buffet lunch and an afternoon tournament.
Great British Sports Show
- Group Size: 100 – 1000 people
- Duration: 2 – 3 hours
- Location: Mobile event across the UK
A celebration of both Britishness and traditional sporting pastimes; The Great British Sports Show, is a fantastic way to engage large groups of people with activities including Giant Darts, curling and volleyball. This event is an unforgettably fun day with the chance to meet former Olympians.
Bespoke Treasure Hunt
- Group Size: 10 – 500 people
- Duration: 2 – 3 hours
- Location: Mobile event across the UK
Following a GPS Treasure app around a treasure hunt trail, each team must compete to earn points by completing riddles, trivia questions, brain teasers and hilarious photo and video challenges. On bespoke treasure hunt, customised challenges are included, themed around your organisation and what you do. Bespoke treasure hunts are a brilliant day out, ideal for team bonding.
Pub Pit Stop Challenge
- Group Size: 10 – 500 people
- Duration: 2 – 3 hours
- Location: City, Southbank and Covent Garden
Navigating around some iconic sights of our nation’s capital following an interactive GPS treasure hunt app; The Pub Pit Stop Challenge incorporates pub stop-offs along the route, enhancing the social element of the treasure experience. As well as the riddles, brainteasers and photo and video challenges activated at the landmark hotspots, there is a chance for teams to boost their points total with Pub Pitstop bonus challenges.
London Canal Quest
- Group Size: 10 – 95 people
- Duration: 2 – 3 hours
- Location: Kingston, Birmingham & Paddington
Combine an idyllic canal cruise with a competitive treasure hunt along London or Birmingham waterways. London Canal Quest is the perfect blend of teambuilding and a refreshing escape from the day job. Armed with an interactive treasure hunt app, each team must navigate their boat to the GPS hotspots to unlock the challenges therein. Solve riddles, answer questions and complete creative photo challenges in a bid to be the top scoring team on the water.
Olympic Challenge
- Group Size: 10 – 500 people
- Duration: 2 – 3 hours
- Location: The Olympic Park, Stratford
The Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park is the home has been transformed since the 2012 games into a fantastic 102-hectare park to be explored. Following a GPS treasure hunt app, your group competes in teams to win the most points from a range of fun-filled Olympic-themed team challenges. With five zones to be explored; The Olympic Challenge promises an incredible day out in London.
Royal Quest
- Group Size: 10 – 500 people
- Duration: 2 – 3 hours
- Location: Central London
A celebration of all things royal, this GPS team treasure hunt incorporates some iconic royal locations such as Buckingham Palace and the Tower of London. Following the treasure hunt app, you must reach each location hotspot on the royal treasure hunt app to unlock and crack cryptic royal clues and complete challenges. Outscore your rival teams to reign supreme!
Game of Zones
- Group Size: 10 – 500 people
- Duration: 2 – 3 hours
- Location: Tower Bridge or Westminster
Exploring London on a treasure hunt route taking in some iconic sights; Game of Zones will test teams across a range of skills with a mixture of Mystery, Mental, Skill and Physical challenges. Following the GPS Treasure Hunt App across four map zones The Futuristic Zone, Ocean Zone, Medieval Zone and Industrial Zone, all teams must compete to earn points from tasks such as Ridiculous Riddles, Adventurous Anagrams, Cryptic Maths, Observation rounds and ultra-fun photo and video challenges.
Watts Sustainable
- Group Size: 20 – 200 people
- Duration: 2 – 3 hours
- Location: Mobile event across the UK
Putting problem solving, creativity, dexterity and teamwork to the test, Watts Sustainable will put each group through their paces across with questions and diverse challenges around six topics including biodiversity, sustainability and energy. This socially responsible event not only helps your company fulfil its CSR commitments but is a high energy competitive challenge with each team competing against the clock and their rivals.
The Bigger Picture
- Group Size: 20 – 300 people
- Duration: 2 – 3 hours
- Location: Mobile event across the UK
Can many small pieces of art create one bigger picture? In this creative task, your large group is to split into many smaller teams, each with their own canvas to paint. At the end of the activity; all smaller canvases will be put together to form The Bigger Picture. Close teamwork and communication are required to ensure that the colours, shapes and textures will align and coordinate when assembled to create a big group masterpiece.
Conference Activities For Large Groups
Many of the above activities are also ideal as conference energiser activities, helping raise the energy levels of your delegates during a conference through music, physical activity, or through creative or problem-solving exercises.
Music and dance events are highly cathartic whether your delegates are learning and performing Michael Jackson’s iconic Thriller dance or unlocking their inner chorister (with a little professional help) in the One Voice experience.
If you really want to engage your groups’ grey matter whist generating a buzz, events such as Robot Wars, It’s a Rat Trap and Ice Carving are sure to liven up your delegates.
Alternatively, you may opt to energise your group through their taste buds with Wine Tasting Events, Cocktail Masterclasses or a Sushi Workshop experience.
More Effective Team Building With Team Tactics
If you looking to plan your next group event – big or small, Team Tactics can help. We specialise in team building events and with nearly 30 years of experience in the industry; we are confident that we can help you plan the best event for your group.
