2023 Virtual Kick Off Events
2023 Virtual Kick Off Events
Top 20 Virtual Kick Off Events for Companies & Teams
With companies in the full flow of business, strategies and targets for 2023, it’s inevitable that the world of virtual meetings and events will continue to be the platform of choice. But how do you keep individuals and teams motivated, connected and driven as we roll into a new year with a positive vision of the future.
To help we’ve put together our list of the top 20 virtual 2023 kick off & team experiences which can dovetail with any business session to create fun interactive interventions where your staff can come together, connect, communicate, share ideas, plan, creative and use their innovation in a fun way, all targeted towards teamwork and performance in a virtual world.
With lots to choose from, here’s the nations favourite top virtual team building events:
UK's 10 favourite virtual team building ideas
Learn the amazing art of Chocolate Making with our Master Chocolatier & Michelin Star trained chef
Virtual Cocktail Making – An amazing hands on experience with world class cocktail mixologists
Virtual Murder Mystery – Become expert detectives in this virtual Cluedo style adventure
Virtual Escape Room – Can your team solve all the puzzles and escape before time runs out?
Virtual Wine Tasting – Explore the delights of famous wines guided by our interactive wine experts.
Virtual Cooking Events – Hosted by Michelin Star trained chefs, you’ll learn how to cook some amazing culinary delights.
Virtual Horse Racing – All the fun, thrills and excitement of being at the races, just virtually!
Virtual Gameshow Mania – Immerse yourselves in a fully interactive upbeat virtual gameshow experience
I’m Working From Home Get Me Outta Here! – Can you take on the celebrities and show them what you’re made of in the jungle?
Virtual Bear Grylls Survival – Learn amazing new survival skills by a team trained by the world most famous face of survival, Bear Grylls
Our guide on how to organise a virtual team building event
We’ve taken our most popular conventional teambuilding events and adapted them to be run in a safe virtual environment. People from all over the world can come together, take part and enjoy themselves without the fear of social distancing rules.
All events are hosted by a fun, upbeat compere, who will run the show, keep everyone entertained and engaged, and make the entire experience slick, upbeat and engaging.
Live hosts – all virtual team events are hosted by a live compere / host who will welcome everyone and run the experience from start to finish. A live host is far more upbeat and interactive than any pre recorded session. It also means the experience is slick and hassle free for the organiser and anyone taking part.
Are people in teams for virtual events? If so how many? Teams – some virtual events work with everyone in the same virtual arena. These tend to be the likes of our food and drink events where the focus is on the experts who are guiding you through the different elements of the event. Others use virtual breakout rooms where people start all together in the main arena where we welcome everyone and explain the experience and rules. We then automatically divide people into virtual breakout rooms in teams of 3-5 where they play against each other in fun competition. We then bring everyone back together at the end in the same arena for the results and announcement of the winners. For example our virtual cooking events and virtual cocktail making are run with everyone together, as are our gameshow style events such as Master of the Tasks. Events such as our virtual escape room, virtual murder mystery and virtual horse racing work with teams playing in fun competition in mini breakout rooms.
Some events cater for different group sizes. Our app based events and games can cater for up to 250 people in one game, but multiples can be run at the same time which allows the event to run into the 1000’s. We also have specialist formats where unlimited numbers of people can play at the same time. Some events are better suited to smaller groups where a more community feel is required. These include our amazing I’m working from Home Get me Outta Here.
The most common platform for virtual events is Zoom, given it’s popularity and functionality. Zoom has very user friendly functionality for most of our events, including the use of a high volume of breakout rooms. We can also run on many other platforms preferred by different companies. Virtual events can be run on the likes of Microsoft Teams, WEBEX and Google Meet. We are always happy to demo events on different platforms to give you the comfort and security of how they work.
For most events the answer is no. The only time we need peoples details is when we’re sending out packs to people in advance. These tend to be our food and drink events and some of our gameshow experiences. All details received are fully GDPR compliant. We don’t store anyone’s information post event. For the majority of our other events, you don’t need to send us anything. We simply send you an event pack in advance via email with everything you need to know. You just need to forward that on to everyone taking part.
Absolutely not. Our teams have a wealth of experience in running and delivering virtual team events. We will guide you through the different options and recommend the best style of event for your group and organisation. Once you’ve chosen your event, our event management team kick in and make everything hassle free for you. The service is designed for minimum work from your side as the organiser. We want you to enjoy this as much as everyone else. You will have a dedicated project manager who will arrange every aspect of your event. They will also send you everything you need in advance to send to anyone taking part.
100% they are! We’ve taken everything we know from over 14 years experience running team building events for over 60% of the FTSE 100 and adapted the right events to be fully virtual interactive team experiences. We beta test all the different experiences in advance with our own teams and sometimes our clients to get the right level of feedback and make the right adaptations to ensure each event really hits the mark.
One thing we’re always very conscious of is the amount of video calls the world is hosting at the moment. Each and every one of our virtual experiences take this into consideration. The design, function, pace and hosts ensure the event doesn’t just feel like another Zoom session. Our specialist team will work closely with you to recommend the best style of event for your group. Whether it’s a hands on creative experience or a laughter packed virtual gameshow. The proofs in the pudding. Simply read our Feefo reviews to see what our clients say.
In lots of circumstances we can run demo events in advance so you can get a real feel for how the different experiences work. Alternatively we’re always happy to jump on any live call or Zoom session to talk through all the different styles of events so you can really get to understand how they work and what would best fit your team.
We know the feeling…After nearly a year of video rather than face to face contact, the last thing people want is ‘another Zoom meeting’. To combat this all our virtual team building events involve huge levels of participation. A lot of them also include surprise packs that everyone receives in the post. Each experience is very different to a normal Zoom session. You’ll notice the difference as soon as you login!
Top 20 virtual kick off events & activities
1. Virtual Chocolate Making
A virtual team event that’s a real treat for the taste buds. Hosted by our master chocolatier, we’ll take you through the amazing journey of how chocolate goes from bean to bar. It’s then hands on with the ingredients as everyone designs creates & brands their very own unique box of themed chocolate delights. The event also includes the option of individuals receiving a custom pack with all ingredients, equipment and a surprise gift in the post in advance of your event.
2. Virtual Cocktail Making
Become the ultimate party host as you learn some very cool tricks & skills to mix a range of delicious great looking famous cocktails. Hosted from our virtual bar our mixologists give you an amazing demonstration of bar skills before we kick in to a range of fun rounds where everyone will learn how to mix famous cocktails such as Mojitos & Sex on the Beach. The final round hots up with a competition to see who can come up with their own award winning drink. This event also includes the option of a full cocktail kit including all required mixers, drinks, fresh fruits & glassware being posted to everyone in advance.
3. Virtual Murder Mystery
Who dunnit? That’s the ultimate question! We run two versions of our festive Murder Mystery events. One using a high tech Cluedo style app based game, the other with live virtual actors. Each experience tasks teams with the challenge of solving all kinds of clues, examining evidence & hunting for suspects to unravel the crime. Players work in mini teams to share ideas and information to try and work out who was the murderer,
4. Virtual Escape Room
A virtual Christmas event using the latest app based technology & amazing augmented reality. Teams go head to head in our virtual arena to battle it out to find hidden clues, complete puzzles, hunt for mystery information and unravel brain busting conundrums. The clocks ticking, the pressures on & the games masters watching. Who will be the first to successfully escape the room and take the win…?
5. Virtual Wine Tasting
Especially popular at for January Christmas parties, socials, client entertainment or kick offs, our virtual wine tasting experience is a favourite for a lot of companies. Hosted by a professional wine expert, we’ll take you on a journey of taste and aroma with wines from around the world. In advance everyone receives a pack containing all the tasting materials and an amazing selection of different vintage wines. As well as being great fun & educational, this event is a great way to virtually socialise and enjoy a glass or two!
6. Virtual Cooking Events
There’s no better time to learn some amazing skills, and no better person to teach you than our Michelin Star Chef! We have a variety of cooking options including the great Bakeathon, 2-3 course meals, sushi making & even the stunning Molecular Gastronomy. We either send individuals a list of ingredients or why not let us send them a lovely pack of food, goodies and a mystery gift with everything they need for this amazing virtual cooking experience.
7. Virtual Horse Racing
Get ready for some serious fun and excitement as we bring all the thrills of horse racing direct to your screen. In a fun team head to head competition, players study the forms of each runner for each race before deciding how much fun money they want to bet and on which runner. Our live bookie will then take all bets before each amazing race is run. All races are taken from real events at real stadiums, so this is as close as you can get to the real thing!
8. Virtual Gameshow Bonanza
We’ve taken everything you know from the most famous game shows and mixed them into one fast paced, action packed, fully interactive, comedic hosted experience. In virtual teams, everyone goes head to head in a variety of hilarious rounds that promise to offer something for everyone. Laughter is guaranteed, and be warned, this is no ordinary quiz!
9. Virtual Master of the Tasks
One of our favourite events for all year round, but even more fun with our festive twist. This side splitting event is complete with a professional comedic host playing the role of the master. Everyone receives in advance a game pack with everything they need to play. Teams then go head to head in fun competition to try and crack a range of absolutely crazy challenges.
10. Virtual Deal or Not Real
Teams take part in a range of fun tasks and energizers in advance to win funds. They then enter the nail biting series of rounds against the banker to see which team has the nerves of steel to win the most money and take the win.
11. Virtual Mega Quiz
Our Virtual Mega Quiz is an upbeat fully interactive quiz themed experiences. Loaded with all kinds of fun tasks games and challenges, our virtual quiz is a great experience to create a real social scene for your 2023 team event.
Themed rounds include:
- Festive brain busters
- Individual and Team photo and video challenges
- Collaborative challenges where you all come together at various points throughout the game to compete en masse
- True or False
- Grand finale to crown your winning team
12. Virtual Musical Bingo
Like bingo? Like music? Then this could be for you. Musical Bingo is a pure fun fast paced version of normal bingo, but with music instead on numbers. It works well for Virtual team events where a pure social fun, relaxed experience is required.
Hosted by our professional comperes, we welcome everyone to the game, and explain the simple rules of play. Everyone receives a musical bingo card listing all the different songs and artists. We then pump up the wheels of steel as we flow through all kinds of music tracks from different genres and decades.
Recognise the song? Strike it off, and keep your ears peeled for the next tune! Just like normal bingo, there’s winners for two lines, three lines and of course the full house. This is a virtual team activity that will always bring fun laughter and energy to the table.
13. Virtual Charity Skateboard Build
If you’re looking for an virtual event that offers a heart-warming feel good factor, then our charity concept is ideal. The premise behind this experience is to benefit underprivileged children. For some kids out there, Covid has been an incredibly tough time . This virtual experience enables you to give to an amazing cause and bring the magic of fun to the lives of people who need it most.
In advance everyone receives a pack containing a kit to build a full size skateboard, art materials, tools, stencils and instructions. Guided by our live virtual hosts and artists everyone builds and decorates their very own unique skateboard. We then arrange for couriers to collect the finished items where they return to us for safety checks before they are wrapped and delivered to the designated charity.
14. Virtual House Party
Sit back, crack open a beer, pour a glass of wine and be prepared to have the most fun possible from a virtual team event. In advance everyone receives a game pack in the post containing everything they need to play. Items are as random as a toilet roll, Sellotape, a small Tupperware box, dice and a lolly stick. They all have a roll to play!
As soon as you log in, our lively host welcomes you to the fun and explains the rules. Teams now go head to head on a range of hilarious challenges that will literally have you in stitches of laughter to watch and play. Imagine Celebrity Juice mixed with The Generation Game and you have House Party!
15. I’m Working From Home Get Me Outta Here!
This virtual jungle-themed challenge is your chance to pit yourselves against the celebrities and see if you’ve got what it takes to be crowned the kings and queens of the virtual office.
Another virtual Christmas event where teams receive packs in the post with everything they need to play. As soon as teams log in they’re thrust into a series of themed rounds in fun competition. One of our favourites for this event is ‘nominate’. If your team wins the jackpot, they get the chance to nominate a player from a competing team. Everyone receives edible critters in their posted packs. You can guess what comes next!
16. Virtual Bakeathon
Hosted by our Michelin Star trained chefs, we have 6 bespoke virtual kitchen studios where we live present these amazing Bake Off inspired cookery workshops. In advance of your event everyone receives a box of ingredients with everything they need to create and cook something amazing. Our chef’s will demo a number of cooking techniques before hands on guiding everything through the hands on baking experience. Whether you’re good at cooking or not, this is an inspirational experience which will teach the pro’s new ideas, and guide everyone else through the skills and techniques to design and bake something delicious.
17. Virtual Wine & Cheese Tasting
With a warm welcome the guests arrive and greeted by our very own host along with the cheese and wine experts. With numerous tastings guests will go back and forth between breakout rooms where they can network and chat about the different tastings. When the Cheese expert comes on there will be a short introduction about the rich history of cheese along with some interesting facts about British cheese. Guests will also learn about sourcing the best UK cheeses and how to correctly taste them. We then delve in further where guests learn about the tasting map on your tongue and a little bit of science and what the key is behind tasting cheese & wine. Our cheese expert will include a blue cheese, a cheddar, a soft cheese and goats cheese. Luckily they are also accompanied by chutneys, dried fruits, dates, apricots, olives and sourdough crackers.
After every tasting our wine expert and the UK’S award winning wine hero will marry up the wines and the cheeses. He will include wines with numerous international accolades which will challenge even the most discerning palettes. He will touch on regions, old and new world wines, grapes and varieties. Our wine expert will discuss each wine with the guests with some information on the vineyard and wine producers of the wines showcased.
18. Virtual Bear Grylls Survival Experience
With the world in survival mode, this is the perfect experience to adapt the mindset, step outside of work mode and learn some amazing new skills, all under the brand and guidance of survival experts, trained by the worlds most famous face of survival, Bear Grylls. Don’t worry, we wont be lighting fires in your kitchen, this is a virtual journey into different skills required, both mentally and physically to help us all charge through these crazy times. In mini teams everyone will be given a series of survival challenges, all taken from real life and real potential situations. The design for this is to help people step outside of their own challenges, think bigger picture, and re equip their minds with the right attitude to overcome and tackle problems head on. For example, if you were to take on summiting Everest, what 5 items would you prioritise to carry from a choice of 20? A compass, a torch, a sleeping bag, a map, spare gloves, water, a stove…
19. Virtual Den of Dragons
Do you think you and your team have the entrepreneurial knowhow to squeeze the all important backing finance out of our fierce and foreboding dragons?! Inspired by the highly successful BBC show ‘Dragons’ Den’, this virtual event is a brilliant way to test team work in a fun and unique environment. Create your brilliant ‘Idea’ and get your brains ticking. With the assistance of our experts, you will have the chance to earn money to purchase essential props and materials at the business superstore. Once you have your winning idea it’s off to the intimidating ‘Dragons Counsel’ to face the business tycoons. Finally it’s your turn to shine in the ‘Pitch’, which must include your watertight budget plans and a well researched design.
20. Virtual Apprentices
Do you think you and your colleagues have what it takes to beat the world’s most belligerent boss?! Inspired by the highly successful BBC show ‘The Apprentice’, this now virtual topical event is a brilliant way to test team work in a fun and unique environment. Our virtual team building ‘Apprentices’ event has been specifically designed to test and bring out all the core business attributes in you and your group, including leadership, delegation, commercial awareness & above all, team work!
Throughout the experience, you and your team will be set challenging and fun business tasks. Once completed, Lord Alan will consult his experts and declare one of the teams the winners. The other teams however are hauled into the boardroom to fight it out in the effort not to hear the immortal phrase: “You’re fired!” Of course those who are fired won’t be sent home early in a black cab with a cameraman to record the tears! Instead you will be sent back in to the next task to try and redeem yourself and win back some all important points!
PLANNING A 2023 VIRTUAL KICK OFF EVENT? WHAT TO DO NEXT…
Visit our contact page and get in touch to discuss how GOTO Events can run your 2023 Virtual Kick Off Event
Our team will give you the right level of advice and options available to suit your group. We can also happily advise on alternative options for live events, and what the current government guidelines and regulations are.
For all of our virtual corporate events, we will ensure you get the right level of fun and entertainment in a safe, upbeat and controlled environment. All of our events have been tried and tested throughout the year, with participants enjoyment as the primary objective. We’ll help you kick off 2023 with a bang!
GOTO Events experiences are all fully risk assessed and compliant with all government requirements. We are accredited with the industry standard Visit Britain ‘Good to Go’ policies.
Click here to contact us for help planning your 2023 Virtual Event.
6 Good Reasons to Host A Virtual Kick Off Event
Cost Effective Packages
Understandably budgets may not be what they were in the past for conventional team building. HOWEVER, our virtual team experiences can be a lot more cost effective than conventional events. Without the need to hire a static venue, and the cost of travel and logistics, you can still hold an amazing fun experience for your teams for a fraction of the cost. There might even be something left in the pot for some beers & wine in the post!
Interactive & Engaging
Let’s face it, we’re all a bit Zoomed out. Our virtual team events allow people to relax, step away from work content, engage with each other and interact with colleagues. All of our events purposely steer away from normal video conferencing formats. The activities, games and experiences are all very upbeat, interactive and engaging. Fun and laughter is the key ingredient, which the feedback from all the virtual team events we’ve run, has proved in abundance.
Stay Safe – Have Fun
With all the regulations in place it’s difficult for companies to keep staff motivated and maintain positive teamwork. By hosting a virtual team building experience you will ensure the safety of your staff & teams, whilst still allowing them to switch off, relax and take part in a fun social group experience.
There’s no masks required here!
Involve Friends or Family
A lot of our virtual team events are designed to include the option of people involving their friends or family. Obviously we have to stick to the rule of 6, but a lot of companies are family orientated so we have designed a series of games, events, and experiences that involve children of all ages, partners, or friends. It can often add a great deal of comfort and satisfaction to see your company plan something that benefits your whole family.
Look Ahead & Boost Morale
With a new year, new visions, new strategies and new targets companies need to ensure their staff are on board and motivated for the year ahead. We all thought it would be over by now, but we’re charging on as best we all can. Quarter 1 of 2023 will be another year of change, with a light at the end of the tunnel. It’s also the time to get allay the January blues, keep teams and people motivated, and ensure they maintain the teamworking skills such as communication, planning, lateral thinking, and the sharing of ideas and information that’s always helped them in the past, and done right virtually, can continue to help as things start to get back to normal.
Have Fun & Connect With Each Other
Fun, engagement and teamwork has always been and always will be a big part of business and social agendas for companies & teams. People are the biggest asset to any organisations. Maintaining positive momentum, and the requirements for people to be working as teams is ever more important given the remote situations we’re all in. All of our virtual team activities allow people to step away from the feeling of Zoom content, and pivot into interactive scenarios where they can work, connected, communicate and play. It’s an essential ingredient, especially at the moment, which when done right, will make an amazing difference to the performance of people and teams.
Make Your Virtual Kick Off Event More Social
Include a hamper, party pack or gift delivered to everyone's homes in advance.
Make it feel like a Party
The addition of a party pack, hamper of gift, delivered to everyones homes prior to your event, can make all the difference to a virtual party. Not only does it make for a lovely present for everyone in advance, it adds a great social aspect to the experience.
We can start your session early so everyone can have some social time, crack open a beer, pour a nice glass of wine, and enjoy some sumptuous snacks.
Lot’s to Choose From
Our variety of hampers and party packs make sure there’s something for everyone. The nature of the gift really takes away the feel of work, and with the hand picked selection of food and drink you will always get lots of chat and interaction on all the different flavours.
Our selection ranges from simple pub snacks with beers, wines, prosecco and snacks, to more luxury hampers with more variety and themes such as Wine & Cheese, Gin Lovers or Prosecco Indulgence.
Something for Everyone
Our hampers and party packs offer something for everyone. We offer a full range of alcoholic and non alcoholic options as well as packs to cater for all dietary requirements such as vegan or vegetarian. We can also bespoke any range of hampers with a selection of hand picked items to suit your requirements.
How To Organise A Virtual Kick Off Event
A guide on how virtual team events work
How to organise a 2023 virtual kick off event
Virtual team building events come in many different formats. Choosing the right style of event for your team is critical to get the most fun and engagement from the experience. For nearly all companies across the world 2023 will be the first year they have ever organised a virtual team event or activity. It’s a leap of faith for everyone, so make sure to speak to our friendly team who will find our about your people and suggest the best style of experience for the group and culture.
Remember, not one size fits all. For example a finance team may well enjoy a very different style of experience to a competitive sales team.
4 steps to organising a virtual team event
There’s 4 simple steps to organising your event:
1- Speak to an experienced member of our team to talk about the nature of your company, the culture of your people & what style of previous events have worked best in the past.
2 – We’ll then recommend and send you a selection of options for you to take away and share with colleagues
3 – Once you’ve decided what you think will work best, share your thoughts and we’ll give you our honest advise as to what we think will be the best event.
4 – Once you’ve chosen your preferred experience and date, our project management team will take care of the rest. We’ll send you everything you need in advance by email to forward to all participants and be on hand all the way in advance to support you and answer any questions.
Virtual hosts
All our virtual events are presented by a virtual host / compere. The hosts are live, rather than pre recorded. Their role is to be the main face of your entire experience. As soon as everyone logs in, our host will welcome you all to the session and guide you through the event. There are different styles of hosts for different style of events. For example:
Cookery Events – All our virtual cookery events are hosted by Michelin Star trained chefs. They will be the main lead, and also the main chef’s interacting with you throughout the experience of demos and hands on cooking.
Cocktail Making – Again, live professional hosts, but this time our world class bar tender mixologists. As soon as you log into this session they kick off with an amazing demonstration of flaring skills that would put Tom Cruise to shame.
Virtual App Based Games – These include the likes of our virtual escape rooms, virtual murder mystery and virtual around the world. Our hosts welcome everyone, explain the nature of the game & the rules, then split everyone off into mini virtual breakout rooms where they go head to head in fun competition. As they play our hosts dip in and out the different rooms to give commentary and updates on the scores.
Virtual Quizzes & Game Shows – This is where we up the ante with the level of host. For these virtual Christmas events, the host runs the entire show, including all the different rounds. We have different levels of host, all with a very fun comedic approach. We also use celebrity hosts at different levels with upcoming events being hosted by the likes of Vernon Kay.
Pre event information
Planning a virtual team building event can be a nerve racking experience for the organiser. Our team will hold your hand through the entire experience, making it hassle free and easy for you to enjoy the event as much as everyone else.
In advance we send you two events packs. One with all the details on the overall experience, and one as a participant pack to send on to everyone taking part. With everyone’s busy lives, the participant packs are purposely simple, with just one or two links to click to enter our arena. Simply log in, and we do the rest from there,
Posted packs
A lot of virtual team events require packs to be posted to participants in the post. For our virtual cookery experiences, guests receive a lovely box of ingredients plus a chefs hat and apron. For virtual cocktail making everyone receives an exciting kit containing all the required alcohol, mixers, syrups, fruits, mixing equipment and glassware. This is theirs to keep.
For our virtual House Party we send prop packs in advance with all kinds of random objects, all used for the different challenges and games.
How many people can a virtual kick off event run for?
There’s no real limit to the number of people that can take part in a virtual team activity, but some events lend themselves better than others to different numbers. For smaller more intimate numbers where you can easily see the other players on screen then our virtual gameshow style events work well such as Master of the Tasks.
For large group virtual events, the app based experiences can run for any size group from 4 upwards. Some versions have the capacity to comfortably deal with numbers into the 1000’s.
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The BEST 60 Virtual Team Building Events & Activities for Companies & Teams
With companies in the full flow of business, strategies and targets for 2023, it’s inevitable that the world of virtual meetings and events will continue to be the platform of choice. But how do you keep individuals and teams motivated, connected and driven as we roll into a new year with a positive vision of the future.
To help we’ve put together our list of the best 60 virtual team building events and virtual team experiences which can dovetail with any business session to create fun interactive interventions where your staff can come together, connect, communicate, share ideas, plan, creative and use their innovation in a fun way, all targeted towards teamwork and performance in a virtual world.
With lots to choose from, here’s the nations favourite top virtual team building events:
How do virtual team building events work?
We’ve taken our most popular conventional teambuilding events and adapted them to be run in a safe virtual environment. People from all over the world can come together, take part and enjoy themselves without the fear of social distancing rules.
All events are hosted by a fun, upbeat compere, who will run the show, keep everyone entertained and engaged, and make the entire experience slick, upbeat and engaging.
Are Virtual Events Hosted Live or Pre Recorded?
Live hosts – all virtual team events are hosted by a live compere / host who will welcome everyone and run the experience from start to finish. A live host is far more upbeat and interactive than any pre recorded session. It also means the experience is slick and hassle free for the organiser and anyone taking part.
Are virtual team events run with small teams or big groups?
Are people in teams for virtual events? If so how many? Teams – some virtual events work with everyone in the same virtual arena. These tend to be the likes of our food and drink events where the focus is on the experts who are guiding you through the different elements of the event. Others use virtual breakout rooms where people start all together in the main arena where we welcome everyone and explain the experience and rules. We then automatically divide people into virtual breakout rooms in teams of 3-5 where they play against each other in fun competition. We then bring everyone back together at the end in the same arena for the results and announcement of the winners. For example our virtual cooking events and virtual cocktail making are run with everyone together, as are our gameshow style events such as Master of the Tasks. Events such as our virtual escape room, virtual murder mystery and virtual horse racing work with teams playing in fun competition in mini breakout rooms.
How many people can take part in a virtual team building event?
Some events cater for different group sizes. Our app based events and games can cater for up to 250 people in one game, but multiples can be run at the same time which allows the event to run into the 1000’s. We also have specialist formats where unlimited numbers of people can play at the same time. Some events are better suited to smaller groups where a more community feel is required. These include our amazing I’m working from Home Get me Outta Here.
What platforms are virtual team experiences hosted on? Is it just Zoom?
The most common platform for virtual events is Zoom, given it’s popularity and functionality. Zoom has very user friendly functionality for most of our events, including the use of a high volume of breakout rooms. We can also run on many other platforms preferred by different companies. Virtual events can be run on the likes of Microsoft Teams, WEBEX and Google Meet. We are always happy to demo events on different platforms to give you the comfort and security of how they work.
Do I need to provide you with everyone's details in advance for a virtual event?
For most events the answer is no. The only time we need peoples details is when we’re sending out packs to people in advance. These tend to be our food and drink events and some of our gameshow experiences. All details received are fully GDPR compliant. We don’t store anyone’s information post event. For the majority of our other events, you don’t need to send us anything. We simply send you an event pack in advance via email with everything you need to know. You just need to forward that on to everyone taking part.
Are virtual team building activities hard to organise? This is the first time I've done one.
Absolutely not. Our teams have a wealth of experience in running and delivering virtual team events. We will guide you through the different options and recommend the best style of event for your group and organisation. Once you’ve chosen your event, our event management team kick in and make everything hassle free for you. The service is designed for minimum work from your side as the organiser. We want you to enjoy this as much as everyone else. You will have a dedicated project manager who will arrange every aspect of your event. They will also send you everything you need in advance to send to anyone taking part.
Are virtual team building events hard to organise? This is the first time I've done one.
Absolutely not. our teams have a wealth of experience in running and delivering virtual team events. We will guide you through the different options and recommend the best style of event for your group and organisation. Once you’ve chosen your event, our event management team kick in and make this hassle free for you. The service is designed for minimum work from your side as the organiser. We want you to enjoy this as much as everyone else. You will have a dedicated project manager who will arrange every aspect of your event. They will also send you everything you need in advance to send to anyone taking part.
Are virtual team building events fun?
100% they are! We’ve taken everything we know from over 14 years experience running team building events for over 60% of the FTSE 100 and adapted the right events to be fully virtual interactive team experiences. We beta test all the different experiences in advance with our own teams and sometimes our clients to get the right level of feedback and make the right adaptations to ensure each event really hits the mark.
One thing we’re always very conscious of is the amount of video calls the world is hosting at the moment. Each and every one of our virtual experiences take this into consideration. The design, function, pace and hosts ensure the event doesn’t just feel like another Zoom session. Our specialist team will work closely with you to recommend the best style of event for your group. Whether it’s a hands on creative experience or a laughter packed virtual gameshow. The proofs in the pudding. Simply read our Feefo reviews to see what our clients say.
Can we experience a demo virtual event in advance of booking?
In lots of circumstances we can run demo events in advance so you can get a real feel for how the different experiences work. Alternatively we’re always happy to jump on any live call or Zoom session to talk through all the different styles of events so you can really get to understand how they work and what would best fit your team.
What if my team are Zoomed Out?
We know the feeling…After nearly a year of video rather than face to face contact, the last thing people want is ‘another Zoom meeting’. To combat this all our virtual team building events for large groups involve huge levels of participation. A lot of them also include surprise packs that everyone receives in the post. Each experience is very different to a normal Zoom session. You’ll notice the difference as soon as you login!
The BEST 60 Remote Team Building Activities and Events We Offer
1. Virtual Chocolate Making
A virtual team event that’s a real treat for the taste buds. Hosted by our master chocolatier, we’ll take you through the amazing journey of how chocolate goes from bean to bar. It’s then hands on with the ingredients as everyone designs creates & brands their very own unique box of themed chocolate delights. The event also includes the option of individuals receiving a custom pack with all ingredients, equipment and a surprise gift in the post in advance of your event.
2. Virtual Cocktail Making
Become the ultimate party host as you learn some very cool tricks & skills to mix a range of delicious great looking famous cocktails. Hosted from our virtual bar our mixologists give you an amazing demonstration of bar skills before we kick in to a range of fun rounds where everyone will learn how to mix famous cocktails such as Mojitos & Sex on the Beach. The final round hots up with a competition to see who can come up with their own award winning drink. This event also includes the option of a full cocktail kit including all required mixers, drinks, fresh fruits & glassware being posted to everyone in advance.
3. Virtual Murder Mystery
Who dunnit? That’s the ultimate question! We run two versions of our festive Murder Mystery events. One using a high tech Cluedo style app based game, the other with live virtual actors. Each experience tasks teams with the challenge of solving all kinds of clues, examining evidence & hunting for suspects to unravel the crime. Players work in mini teams to share ideas and information to try and work out who was the murderer,
4. Virtual Escape Room
A virtual Christmas event using the latest app based technology & amazing augmented reality. Teams go head to head in our virtual arena to battle it out to find hidden clues, complete puzzles, hunt for mystery information and unravel brain busting conundrums. The clocks ticking, the pressures on & the games masters watching. Who will be the first to successfully escape the room and take the win…?
5. Virtual Wine Tasting
Especially popular at for January Christmas parties, socials, client entertainment or kick offs, our virtual wine tasting experience is a favourite for a lot of companies. Hosted by a professional wine expert, we’ll take you on a journey of taste and aroma with wines from around the world. In advance everyone receives a pack containing all the tasting materials and an amazing selection of different vintage wines. As well as being great fun & educational, this event is a great way to virtually socialise and enjoy a glass or two!
6. Virtual Cooking Events
There’s no better time to learn some amazing skills, and no better person to teach you than our Michelin Star Chef! We have a variety of cooking options including the great Bakeathon, 2-3 course meals, sushi making & even the stunning Molecular Gastronomy. We either send individuals a list of ingredients or why not let us send them a lovely pack of food, goodies and a mystery gift with everything they need for this amazing virtual cooking experience.
7. Virtual Horse Racing
Get ready for some serious fun and excitement as we bring all the thrills of horse racing direct to your screen. In a fun team head to head competition, players study the forms of each runner for each race before deciding how much fun money they want to bet and on which runner. Our live bookie will then take all bets before each amazing race is run. All races are taken from real events at real stadiums, so this is as close as you can get to the real thing!
8. Virtual Gameshow Bonanza
We’ve taken everything you know from the most famous game shows and mixed them into one fast paced, action packed, fully interactive, comedic hosted experience. In virtual teams, everyone goes head to head in a variety of hilarious rounds that promise to offer something for everyone. Laughter is guaranteed, and be warned, this is no ordinary quiz!
9. Virtual Master of the Tasks
One of our favourite events for all year round, but even more fun with our festive twist. This side splitting event is complete with a professional comedic host playing the role of the master. Everyone receives in advance a game pack with everything they need to play. Teams then go head to head in fun competition to try and crack a range of absolutely crazy challenges.
10. Virtual Railroad Murders
On this event we take you back to to the 1920s virtually. There has been an unfortunate murder midway on the train journey from Paris to Constantinople. Using the latest interactive technology you will become a detective and try and unravel the crime before you meet your final destination.
11. Virtual Mega Quiz
Our Virtual Mega Quiz is an upbeat fully interactive quiz themed experiences. Loaded with all kinds of fun tasks games and challenges, our virtual quiz is a great experience to create a real social scene for your 2023 team event.
Themed rounds include:
- Festive brain busters
- Individual and Team photo and video challenges
- Collaborative challenges where you all come together at various points throughout the game to compete en masse
- True or False
- Grand finale to crown your winning team
12. Virtual Musical Bingo
Like bingo? Like music? Then this could be for you. Musical Bingo is a pure fun fast paced version of normal bingo, but with music instead on numbers. It works well for Virtual team events where a pure social fun, relaxed experience is required.
Hosted by our professional comperes, we welcome everyone to the game, and explain the simple rules of play. Everyone receives a musical bingo card listing all the different songs and artists. We then pump up the wheels of steel as we flow through all kinds of music tracks from different genres and decades.
Recognise the song? Strike it off, and keep your ears peeled for the next tune! Just like normal bingo, there’s winners for two lines, three lines and of course the full house. This is a virtual team activity that will always bring fun laughter and energy to the table.
13. Virtual Charity Skateboard Build
If you’re looking for an virtual event that offers a heart-warming feel good factor, then our charity concept is ideal. The premise behind this experience is to benefit underprivileged children. For some kids out there, Covid has been an incredibly tough time . This virtual experience enables you to give to an amazing cause and bring the magic of fun to the lives of people who need it most.
In advance everyone receives a pack containing a kit to build a full size skateboard, art materials, tools, stencils and instructions. Guided by our live virtual hosts and artists everyone builds and decorates their very own unique skateboard. We then arrange for couriers to collect the finished items where they return to us for safety checks before they are wrapped and delivered to the designated charity.
14. Virtual House Party
Sit back, crack open a beer, pour a glass of wine and be prepared to have the most fun possible from a virtual team event. In advance everyone receives a game pack in the post containing everything they need to play. Items are as random as a toilet roll, Sellotape, a small Tupperware box, dice and a lolly stick. They all have a roll to play!
As soon as you log in, our lively host welcomes you to the fun and explains the rules. Teams now go head to head on a range of hilarious challenges that will literally have you in stitches of laughter to watch and play. Imagine Celebrity Juice mixed with The Generation Game and you have House Party!
15. I’m Working From Home Get Me Outta Here!
This is virtual jungle-themed challenge where’s it’s your chance to see if you’ve got what it takes to be crowned the kings and queens of the virtual office.
Another virtual Christmas event where teams receive packs in the post with everything they need to play. As soon as teams log in they’re thrust into a series of themed rounds in fun competition. One of our favourites for this event is ‘nominate’. If your team wins the jackpot, they get the chance to nominate a player from a competing team. Everyone receives edible critters in their posted packs. You can guess what comes next!
16. Virtual Bakeathon
Hosted by our Michelin Star trained chefs, we have 6 bespoke virtual kitchen studios where we live present these amazing Bake Off inspired cookery workshops. In advance of your event everyone receives a box of ingredients with everything they need to create and cook something amazing. Our chef’s will demo a number of cooking techniques before hands on guiding everything through the hands on baking experience. Whether you’re good at cooking or not, this is an inspirational experience which will teach the pro’s new ideas, and guide everyone else through the skills and techniques to design and bake something delicious.
17. Virtual Asian Flavour Cooking Workshop
Step into the world of sense and aroma’s as we take you on a delicious culinary journey of Asian inspired cooking. Our Michelin Star trained chef’s will create a bespoke menu for your team, taking into consideration all dietary requirements. Next comes the ingredients which are delivered, with fresh ingredients, to everyone’s homes prior to your event. The main experience is live, with live chef’s all presented from our purpose built kitchen studios, fully geared up for virtual cooking workshops. Our chef’s are fun, upbeat, exceptionally skilled, and interactive. They will take you on a journey of cooking skills where you are hands on, fully involved, and engrossed in the creation of a selection of stunning looking, highly appetising Asian flavours.
18. Virtual British Master Chefs
When it comes to great British food, there’s lot’s to choose from, and certainly lots of different and unique dishes that most people may not have experienced in the past. Under the expert pupillage of our Michelin Star trained chefs, we’ll take you on a guided journey into new found cookery skills, all with the objective of creating a number of amazing dishes that will compliment any dinner party. In advance of your event, the postman will deliver you a box of fresh ingredients, with everything you need for the custom menu we design for you. Whether you’re an accustomed pro, or a beans on toast person, this event offers something for everyone. The experience teaches you new skills, and results in some very tasty dishes that you’ll be dying to eat at the end!
19. Virtual French Connections
When it comes to food, some will argue that the French have it nailed. Maybe they do, but let’s take you on an culinary adventure where you can dip your toe into the world of food creation with France us the foundation theme. Check the post in advance, as everyone will receive a mystery parcel of ingredients, all designed around the dishes we create for your event and your group. The fun commences with an exciting demo of cookery techniques which you’ll learn in advance of the actual cooking. Next it’s time to crack open the boxes and delve into the ingredients. With step by step guidance, our chefs will walk and talk you through the fun steps of creating, cooking and presenting a selection of French themed delights. Maybe grab a glass of wine, as this one’s going to be fun!
20. Virtual Wine Tasting
Wine tasting has been an increasingly popular virtual event given it’s fun and relaxed nature. It’s an ideal experience for any team, or for
entertaining clients. In advance everyone receives a pack in the post with sample wines based on your chosen theme. All the wines are hand picked by professional wine appreciation experts and can be themed to any style such as organic wines, red, whites, rose or dessert wines. The entire event is hosted virtually via Zoom or other similar platforms. Your guests are greeted by our wine experts and the experience commences with a fascinating introduction into some amazing facts about wines around the world. We now step into the selection of wines that everyone’s received. Each one has a dedicated journey of tasting & exploring the unique aromas and specific flavours blended into each bottle. The entire experience is very relaxing, educational and interactive. It’s the perfect event to get people talking and engaging as you explore the world of wine under expert guidance.
21. Virtual Wine & Cheese Tasting
With a warm welcome the guests arrive and greeted by our very own host along with the cheese and wine experts. With numerous tastings guests will go back and forth between breakout rooms where they can network and chat about the different tastings. When the Cheese expert comes on there will be a short introduction about the rich history of cheese along with some interesting facts about British cheese. Guests will also learn about sourcing the best UK cheeses and how to correctly taste them. We then delve in further where guests learn about the tasting map on your tongue and a little bit of science and what the key is behind tasting cheese & wine. Our cheese expert will include a blue cheese, a cheddar, a soft cheese and goats cheese. Luckily they are also accompanied by chutneys, dried fruits, dates, apricots, olives and sourdough crackers.
After every tasting our wine expert and the UK’S award winning wine hero will marry up the wines and the cheeses. He will include wines with numerous international accolades which will challenge even the most discerning palettes. He will touch on regions, old and new world wines, grapes and varieties. Our wine expert will discuss each wine with the guests with some information on the vineyard and wine producers of the wines showcased.
22. Virtual Molecular Gastronomy
Ferran Adrià Head, founder and head chef of the world famous ElBulli restaurant in Spain, is, as some would say, probably one of the best chefs in the world. He pioneered the gastronomic revolution that captured the attention of chefs such as Heston Blumenthal who learnt to apply amazing touches to food dishes by using natural ingredients with fine dining cooking to create some magical eye capturing dishes.
This is a cooking event like no other, and prepare to be amazed at the results! We use things you’ll have never heard of such as hot gels and spheres that will enable you to create some space age looking results. If you think you know food, then think again. What you will receive in the post will be completely unfamiliar, but…as soon as you get hands on with our expert chefs, everything will come to life in front of your very eyes!
23. Virtual Myers Briggs Learning & Development Workshop
Have you ever heard someone describe themselves as an INTJ or an ESTP and wondered what those cryptic-sounding letters could mean? What these people are referring to is their personality type based on the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). The Myers-Briggs Personality Type Indicator is a self-report inventory designed to identify a person’s personality type, strengths, and preferences.
The MBTI instrument is the best known and most trusted personality assessment on the market, and GOTO Events are proud to be able to offer this word famous development tool as a fully fledged virtual learning and development workshop. Far more than just personality tests, our virtual workshops offer a flexible framework that can be applied to all areas of individual and team development.
24. Virtual Insights Discovery Learning & Development Workshop
GOTO Events are proud to offer personal, team and leadership development programmes using The Colour Works International and the ’Insights Discovery® personal profile as a virtual team learning & development workshop.
The Colour Works have been transforming workplace performance globally for over 15 years. The workshops are designed to develop teams and leaders by building emotional intelligence and team-working skills. At the heart this lies the Insights Discovery personal profile and colour model of behaviours. When used in an interactive programme, this memorable and accessible tool immediately shifts mind-sets, brings the psychology of behaviour to life and gives delegates a deep understanding of how to improve their own and their team’s performance.
25. Virtual Canape Creations
Canapes come in all shapes and sizes and are used for all kind of functions from dinner parties at home to black tie gala dinners. The beauty of canapes is the variety of designs and flavours that can be combined to create a delicious medley of appetising delights that will cater for everyone’s pallets. Keep an eye out for the postman, as everyone will receive a parcel in the post in advance of your event, with all the fresh ingredients they need to create the menu we suggest and design for you. Hit the Zoom link, and be greeted by our friendly chefs who will kick things off with some amazing demo’s, and hands on cooking techniques. We now crack open the ingredients ready for the step by step guide on designing, creating and cooking a selection of unique canapes. At the end we sample all the delights. Everyone cooks enough to be able to share with friends of families to show of your new found cookery skills.
26. Virtual Who Moved My Cheese
Who Moved my Cheese is an upbeat, motivating and insightful virtual learning and development workshop tailored around change and change management. It’s based on a world famous book that’s a fun story of four different characters who live in a maze and spend their life looking for cheese. The cheese is a metaphor for what you aspire for in your life, for example a well paid job, money, material possessions, life satisfaction or a loving relationship. The maze represents where you hunt for what you want for example your employment organisation, family circle or spectrum of friends.
Throughout the story the four characters have to deal with unprecedented change in the hunt for cheese. Only one of four positively reacts to change, and writes how on the wall of success. This one character continues to flourish. The others are left scratching their heads wondering what they did wrong for not adapting to the circumstances. This workshop takes you on a journey of creating your own wall of guidance and how we can all react to and adapt to change to empower our lives bit at work and at home. An especially pertinent message in our current world.
27. Virtual Art Works
Art is a powerful medium for mind relaxation and creativity, whether you’re an artist or not. This is an event where people can connect via drawing, colour and innovation that brings people together in an imaginative way. In a very simple way, we provide teams and individuals with the guidance and resource they need to create a small section of a large collaborative team image. Everyone digitally creates a small section of a mosaic style image. We provide the templates required for each unique design. Everyone delves into their virtual paint pots to create their own bespoke image. On completion we bring all the images together as one collage to reveal the bigger picture. The actual end image can be customised to your company, team, or a pertinent message.
28. Virtual Sushi Making
Learn the fine art and skills of sushi making under the expert guidance of expert chefs. Exciting parcels with all the fresh ingredients required arrive at everyone’s homes in advance. On the day simply click our Zoom link and you’re welcomed by the friendly face of our chefs. We kick things of with an amazing demo of some very cool skills used by Sushi chefs. Now it’s time to get hands on with our step by step guidance on designing, creating, and presenting a selection of mouth watering and visually inspiring sushi dishes.
29. Virtual Haka Warriors
The Haka. A famous, traditional, ancient Maori Tribal War dance. The movements from the powerful warriors creates an emotive journey of dance and noise that’s designed to motivate and stimulate the mindset to allow people to feel they’re capable of ANYTHING! Going back 100’s of years native Maori tribes have harnessed the power of The Haka to enable them to face life’s challenges head on. It arms the mind with a can do attitude and remaps negative thoughts and emotion by flipping them into powerful attitudes. GOTO Events are privileged to have access to an exclusive group who have granted permissions from New Zealands Tribal Elders. The lead warrior comes direct from the tribe who created the Ka Mate Haka used by the famous All Blacks rugby team. During this virtual event, we use this team of amazing people to guide people through the different moves and sounds associated with the HAKA. The end result being a united performance & powerful re-enactment of the HAKA that will depth charge your teams mindset and can do attitude.
30. Virtual MI5 Special Agents
Get ready to be immersed into a world of undercover MI5 special agent techniques, all as an amazing virtual team building event. During a mission to save the world from hackers and worldwide threats a rogue M15 agent has been dealing in underhand business and needs bringing to justice. MI5 have been involved but feel they cant trust anyone as many suspected moles have been ear marked. The nation needs your help to complete a custom virtual mission to retrieve information, evidence and clues that could lead to unveiling the culprit. This event will delve you deep into an online mission with all kinds of twists and turns as you instantly become a team of virtual agents ready to save the world and bring the right person to justice.
31. Virtual Taste of Italy
Step into he amazing world of cooking with an Italian theme. Our chefs work with you to create and suggest a selection of popular dishes which can easily be replicated in the future to give you a real inspirational journey into how and why Italian food is so amazing. Presented from bespoke kitchen studios, designed for virtual cooking events, we take you on a guided journey, with Michelin Star trained chefs. It’s as simple as open up the ingredients boxes we post to everyone in advance, hit the Zoom link and be welcomed by our experts. As well as some very cool cookery skills, our team will teach you how to create a selection of stunning Italian dishes, all worthy of impressing your guests at your next themed dinner party.
32. Virtual Bear Grylls Survival Experience
With the world in survival mode, this is the perfect experience to adapt the mindset, step outside of work mode and learn some amazing new skills, all under the brand and guidance of survival experts, trained by the worlds most famous face of survival, Bear Grylls. Don’t worry, we wont be lighting fires in your kitchen, this is a virtual journey into different skills required, both mentally and physically to help us all charge through these crazy times. In mini teams everyone will be given a series of survival challenges, all taken from real life and real potential situations. The design for this is to help people step outside of their own challenges, think bigger picture, and re equip their minds with the right attitude to overcome and tackle problems head on. For example, if you were to take on summiting Everest, what 5 items would you prioritise to carry from a choice of 20? A compass, a torch, a sleeping bag, a map, spare gloves, water, a stove…
33. Virtual Chimp Paradox Learning & Development Workshop
The Chimp Paradox is an exciting, modern and dynamic virtual learning and development workshop that hones in on the emotional machine we all posses and use on a daily basis. The chimp in us all thinks independently from our logical brains. It makes decisions, some right, some wrong and can sometimes be emotionally overpowering. In the tough times we all face, it’s ever important now for companies and teams to act on logic and not emotion and that’s where the chimp comes in.
Our fully facilitated workshop is designed by the original author Sir Steve Peters and hones in on how we can all control and harness the power of our inner chimp when it’s working, and control it when it’s not. The session is a very powerful mind management tool used by companies, teams and individuals across the world as a training module to help drive success via the power of people and their amazing minds.
34. Virtual Musical Beats Work
Music is an entry to the mind and soul of us all. Now more than ever we all need uplifting on a daily basis, and through this virtual team building event we take you on an energizing fully hands on experience into the world of some very funky beats.
Hosted by professional percussionists, we’ll equip you with everything you need from home, or with an option of basic instruments being posted in advance, to create and layer an amazing series of beats and tunes that when combined create one amazing collaborative musical masterpiece. The beauty of this event is that anyone and everyone can be involved, despite your group size. It unites people working from home, exemplifies the power of collaboration and teamwork, and above all allows people to switch off from work and have some good old fashioned upbeat fun together.
35. Virtual Mindfulness Session
With the current stresses of life and ever increasing workloads, there’s no time like the present to focus on the mindfulness and wellbeing of teams. This virtual mindfulness workshop looks at a variety of different things we can all do at home, or at work, that can positively increase our mental state of mind, energy levels, and positivity. One shoe doesn’t fit all when it comes to wellbeing. Some benefit from exercise, others yoga, and some who find tasks and hobbies that help relax them. Our professional wellbeing coaches provide an insight into the what how and when we can all apply different techniques to help focus the mind body and soul into a positive daily space.
The workshop equips each member of your team with a number of skills and tools that can be practiced in our daily lives. The content of the workshop includes lots of practical exercises and is followed up with an action pack of suggestions and ideas for everyone to harness.
36. Virtual Breathing & Relaxation Session
Breathing and breath control has a HUGE impact on people state of mind. Breathing techniques are used around the world in many different forms to help relieve stress focus the mind, and boost performance. this includes the likes of professional sports people, mind management experts, great leaders and people that can perform way beyond the expected level of the human capacity.
We might all take breathing for granted, as after all it’s what keeps us alive, but there’s a lot more to it. Simple techniques of stepping out of daily life, even for just 5 minutes to focus on breathing can make a massive difference to how we feel. Our professional breathing experts will equip you with a number of techniques, which we use during the workshop, to help us reboot our minds, overcome stress, feel positive, calmer and empowered to think beyond the stresses of life and work. The session will also give people skills to practice on and off, or ideally on a daily basis that can make a huge difference to their general health and wellbeing.
37. Virtual Home Yoga
Yoga is a fun way to get your body moving and energy flowing! Whether you’re after a morning session to kickstart the day or a way to get rid of the post lunch slump, our virtual yoga sessions suit everyone! Catering for all abilities, these fully inclusive experiences offer an exciting way for everyone to get involved in some light exercise. Adaptable for any group size, the yoga sessions can be tailored to involve active or relaxation yoga. With the focus on being not just on the body but also the mind, relaxation techniques are incorporated throughout the session.
The session starts with a briefing from the yoga teacher, virtually, on what the session involves and the different benefits of the yoga moves on the body. Dependant on if the session is more active or relaxing, the session involves a variety of different yoga moves, focusing on the importance of the breath during this. The sessions end with everyone feeling relaxed and refreshed!
Our regular sessions involve using mats for the moves to be practised upon. However, if you’re worried about the space you have, try our chair Yoga.
38. Virtual Gong Bath
What an earth is a gong bath? Well let us explain…and no it doesn’t involve water! A gong bath is an ancient form of mind therapy which uses sound and sound waves to relax the mind. The ‘bath’ part eludes to being bathed in waves of sound. Our professional gong bath practitioner will take you on a mind mapping journey that will amaze you with the results. Sitting comfortably at home or in the office we use a series of gongs to create a pattern of sound that will immerse you in a journey of relaxation for the mind and body. All you have to do is make yourself comfy, ensure the volume is up, close your eyes and be guided through this amazing feeling of deep inner comfort.
Whether you consciously listen or not, it’s not just about the sound. The sense of vibration, albeit virtual will have an amazing effect on your subconscious mind. Because you’re focussed on the sound, which is hard not to, the session is designed to de clutter the mind, stimulate positivity, and massage our inner spirits.
39. Virtual Nutrition Workshop
An essential part of our mind and wellbeing, nutrition for people working from home or the office is espcially important given the current circumstances. It’s all too easy to dash to Tesco for a meal deal, but what are you actually eating? This virtual nutrition session is hosted by professional experts who will guide you through many different things to make and create at home that will keep you on track for a healthy lifestyle.
Whether you’re a foodie or not we’ll teach you about different nutritional values of different foods, that don’t have to be exotic or expensive. Even as simple as 5-a-day, to what snacks are best when we delve into the cupboards for elevensies. The experience is uplifting, educational and fun. We also have an option for food packs to be sent to everyone in advance so they can get hands on with creating some healthy dishes.
40. Virtual Smoothie Making
Smoothie Making is an immersive experience centred around wellbeing. Tuning into different aspects of wellness, it offers the opportunity to both learn and engage in different ways of fuelling both the mind and body. The experience begins with a smoothie-making session, including learning about which ingredients have the best nutrients for the body.
The session moves onto a Tai-Chi style session, focusing on how mindfulness can be achieved through different movement and breathing techniques. The smoothie drinks are then enjoyed with the session ending with a relaxing aromatherapy. As a virtual experience we can either send guests a list of ingredients in advance, or provide lovely packages that get posted to everyone in advance.
41. Virtual Hospital Art
This event has a charitable angle designed to brighten up the lives of people that are in hospital and not at home. We either task teams with creating pictures and images with everything they can find at home, or we have the option of positing packs to everyone in advance.
It doesn’t matter whether you’re good at art or not, our experts, along with a number of stencils and templates, will help you create something that will delve into your creativity and innovation. The pictures can be tailored to any theme or topic. Once complete, we provide pre paid postage options for all the pictures to be returned to us, before we dispatch them to various different hospitals, children’s homes, or other charitable sources where your efforts, and the fact that someone, somewhere will open up something created by you that will inevitably brighten up their day!
42. Virtual Perfume Making
Virtual perfume making is a virtual team building activity that really taps into everyone’s positive senses. In advance of your event everyone receives a customised kit with everything you need for the experience ahead. Our professional virtual hosts will then guide you through the amazing art of how the worlds most famous scents are made, before we get hands on to create your very own fragrances.
Throughout the perfume making virtual team building experience our perfume stylist will guide you through all the different ingredients that can be mixed and blended to create the different aromas. With the right education under your belt, teams now head into virtual breakout rooms to share ideas on what they think will make a ground breaking fragrance. You can even add a fun apprentice style challenge where they have to create a fun brand and label, ready to present to the board.
43. Virtual Dash & Grab
A gameshow style quick fire experience that’s an ideal energizer for any business session, kick off, or motivational experience. Our professional show style host welcomes everyone via Zoom (other platforms are available) with an upbeat intro. After explaining the rules of the game we delve straight into the fun. Everyone plays in teams with some rounds group orientated, others where they have to nominate certain players.
In a classic & famous Generation Game style conveyor belt challenge we reveal on screen a number of items that teams and individuals have to find throughout their homes in the fastest possible time. The fact that people are in competition will drive the determination and game play like you’ve never seen before. Some items are fast find and random, others take a little thinking about, for example, 15 30 seconds to find the most inspiring item you can hold in one hand…
44. Virtual Gold Rush
It’s 1848. A famous explorer has uncovered gold hidden deep in depths of California. Your team have decided you want a slice of the pie and have hopped on a plane to see if you can get it quick to discover your share of the gold. The only challenge is, so have the rest of your team. This virtual team building event is a race to see who can get to the right place first and capture the most treasure.
Starting from New York, teams will travel from state to state where they’ll complete all kinds of tasks and challenges to earn funds to travel to their next location. Teams work in virtual breakout rooms where they’ll share the information they receive on the different challenges, before they feed in to their state manager who’s in the main zoom session. Each state has it’s own level of difficulty so quick lateral thinking is needed along with lots of communication and interaction to crack these tasks as quick as possible and get ahead of your teams in the race for the gold.
45. Virtual Change Management Workshop
With the world ever changing, we’ve all had to adapt our lives at home and at work. Change can be a big challenge for companies and teams in conventional times, let alone in the midst of a pandemic. So here’s a little help! Delivered by professional change management facilitators, this virtual learning & development workshop delivers an interactive session based on discussions, exercises and techniques to positively manage change within business and personal lives.
We use virtual breakout rooms for discussion topics and bring people back into a central arena for broader discussion, just like a conventional live workshop. The objective of this virtual team experience is to equip peoples minds with the mental tools to see change as a positive and how to work with change, as a person and as a team to embrace the future vision and harness the positive outcomes.
46. Virtual Bubble Workshop
If you’re looking for a fun and immersive wellness inspired virtual event, look no further than our bubble style workshops and activities. Ranging from bubble wrap yoga to an immersive bubble display, our Bubblicious event provides a fun virtual teambuilding activity like no other. Flexible in its delivery, our Bubblicious event can be anything from a bubble display to kickstart a virtual conference, to a yoga session, incorporating bubble wrap and a life-sized bubble display.
The calming nature of life-sized bubbles should not be underestimated, with experiencing the display providing a sense of deep mindfulness and inner-reflection. With our bubblelogist being able to produce bubbles up to the size of an elephant our bubble activities will ensure the wow factor and something very different for your employees.
47. Virtual Den of Dragons
Do you think you and your team have the entrepreneurial knowhow to squeeze the all important backing finance out of our fierce and foreboding dragons?! Inspired by the highly successful BBC show ‘Dragons’ Den’, this virtual event is a brilliant way to test team work in a fun and unique environment. Create your brilliant ‘Idea’ and get your brains ticking. With the assistance of our experts, you will have the chance to earn money to purchase essential props and materials at the business superstore. Once you have your winning idea it’s off to the intimidating ‘Dragons Counsel’ to face the business tycoons. Finally it’s your turn to shine in the ‘Pitch’, which must include your watertight budget plans and a well researched design.
48. Virtual Apprentices
Do you think you and your colleagues have what it takes to beat the world’s most belligerent boss?! Inspired by the highly successful BBC show ‘The Apprentice’, this now virtual topical event is a brilliant way to test team work in a fun and unique environment. Our virtual team building ‘Apprentices’ event has been specifically designed to test and bring out all the core business attributes in you and your group, including leadership, delegation, commercial awareness & above all, team work!
Throughout the experience, you and your team will be set challenging and fun business tasks. Once completed, Lord Alan will consult his experts and declare one of the teams the winners. The other teams however are hauled into the boardroom to fight it out in the effort not to hear the immortal phrase: “You’re fired!” Of course those who are fired won’t be sent home early in a black cab with a cameraman to record the tears! Instead you will be sent back in to the next task to try and redeem yourself and win back some all important points!
49. Virtual Crime Scene Experience
Get ready to be immersed into a world of forensic investigation as we take you on a journey of intrigue where you’ll become your very own crime scene experts.
Faced with a virtual crime scene, teams will have the chance to virtually investigate, to look for clues and pertinent information that will hopefully lead to solving the crime, including the motive, murderer and murder weapon. With information sent to everyone in advance, teams will virtually learn amazing skills such as finger print analysis, blood splatters, and suspect e-fits. Working together in virtual breakout rooms, teams will share all kinds of clues and information, explore suspect profiles, and ultimate work together to reveal their final conclusions. The entire event is hosted from a themed virtual crime scene arena where they can guide our live forensic experts to show them certain evidence from the live crime scene.
50. Virtual Heads & Tails
Another quick fire virtual teambuilding energizer session that’s fun, interactive and uplifting for any group of people working from home. Hosted by a live host, this fast exciting game simply tasks teams with deciding if they are a human heads or tails.
For each round our host flips a coin and reveals the result. Everyone who guessed correct stays in play. The rounds continue until we have the final two players on screen ready to battle it out in a nail biting finale that will have everyone on the edge of their set.
51. Virtual Gin Tasting
Part of our virtual food and drink collection of events, this is an immersive journey into the world of famous gins, and gin related drinks. Hosted by professional experts we’ll take you on a fascinating immersion into what makes gin such a popular drink of choice. And of course, along the way we’ll be experiencing these amazing flavours accompanied by different mixers to create different tastes.
In advance everyone receives a pack with all the drinks and mixers required. We have different levels of packs at different price points to cater for all budgets. Even for the people who might have never tried gins, this is a fascinating experience, that also doubles up with the packs being a really nice gift for people to keep.
52. Virtual Coffee Tasting
Coffee is a great way to stimulate our sense of taste and smell. The aromas are often used in environments such as exhibitions where people want to subliminally draw you in with that lure of freshly ground coffee. This virtual team experience explores the world of coffee beyond what most of us know. It can either be delivered as fun and educational, or we can make it fully interactive where teams receive packs in the post with fresh coffee resources to experiment with under the expert guidance of our live coffee experts / hosts.
The event provides something different, is fully engaging, and tunes peoples minds into something engaging and positive with great levels of fun education and discussion.
53. Virtual Peak Performance
Peak Performance is a virtual teambuilding event that focusses on high performing individuals and teams. Posed with challenges and scenarios from environments such as summiting famous mountains, teams will need to communicate and utilise skills to adapt to every changing situations. Groups play in mini virtual teams to manage key resources. They have to draw on virtual expedition guides to essentially summit and return safely from the worlds highest peak of Mount Everest. Individuals will assume different roles, with everyone aspiring to gather as much knowledge as possible to become the resident expert in their field. They then have to work as a team to communicate information and strategy in collaboration to work together to get everyone to the top and back down safely.
The overall challenge allows people to think outside of the box and draw open each others skills and resources to come together as a united force. The feeling of success and achievement from this event is amazing. Especially as you will virtually stand on top of the world!
54. Virtual Record Breakers
Ever fancied trying your hand at breaking a world record? Well strictly speaking we wont be taking on a real record, but we’ll be creating a virtual tongue in cheek one, just for your team!
With all kinds of imaginative ideas available this is a team or collaborative group challenge (number dependent), that tasks people with pulling together, practicing, experimenting and coming up with a winning team strategy to see which team come out on top.
The different tasks are fun, social and engaging, giving people the chance to enjoy working together as a team to see who will come out on top and be crowned record breakers!
55. Virtual Candle Making
Love the light, warmth, comfort, feel and scent of a beautiful candle flickering? Well now’s your chance to delve into the world of how candles of all shapes and sizes are made, from scratch. This virtual teambuilding experience really allows people to step outside of work and express their creative flair and innovation. Candle making is an ancient craft, but has evolved so much with technological advances, however the basic hand made principles remain the same. This experience will really open your mind and make you realise what you’re capable of when you put your minds to something different. And what a cool new skill to learn!
The entire event is hosted live via Zoom (or other similar platforms). The postman will grace you with a beautiful kit in the post with all the resources you need. Everyone also receives an e-book with extra information on the process. Throughout this amazing virtual experience you’ll learn about everything that goes into candle making including wax selection, fragrance loads, wick sizing and jar selection..
56. Virtual Karaoke Kings
Get your dancing shoes on and prep your best singing voice! This is big time Karaoke, with all the fun, pace, energy and songs you all love, just virtual! Hosted by our karaoke compere, we’ll rev up the audience in a fun competition where players come forward to take on their tune of choice. There’s the options for people to vote for their favourites to add an element of points or simply sit back, grab a drink and have a good old jolly with your colleagues.
The virtual DJ will spin the wheels, play the tracks and act as compere to introduce each act. Why not make it even more fun and add some dressing up to the equation! Maybe even a theme. 80’s 90’s etc. Whatever you choose this is a lovely experience to have a good old boogie and sing along.
57. Virtual Hacker
Ever fancied stepping into the toes of secret agents and taking on a special digital mission to save the world? Well now’s your chance! Posed with international espionage, your team has been called in to help bring to justice a group of cyber criminals. The only information available is locked in a digital arena where the suspected perpetrators are deemed to be lurking.
In this specialist virtual team building event, your team will be thrust into a virtual world to work together to explore and hunt for all kinds of information and clues. You’ll be cracking riddles, codes and conundrums to hack into secret areas, all of which will help you build up a picture of what’s happened and try and bring the criminals to justice.
58. Virtual Magic Show
A slightly different form of virtual team experiences, but prepare to be on the edge of your seat and asking yourself how on earth did he do that? We have a variety of virtual magicians, all who present live to any size audience with a mind blowing display of tricks. They might event teach you the odd thing or two!
The art of magic is an amazing way to focus and capture the mind. We’re not talking about people pulling rabbits out the hat, this is top level David Blaine style magic that will fully captivate any audience. It’s great as an energizer, social team session or any fun intervention for any form of virtual business event.
59. Virtual Festival
Now here’s something really different for your virtual team event! Imagine the free flowing flexibility of being able to explore in your own company festival arena where you can dip in and out of all kinds of entertainment zones. Visit the karaoke zone, have a go at virtual bingo, relax to soothing sounds in the jazz café, throw a request to the DJ in the disco arena, burst your sides with laughter in the comedy lounge, or simply hang out with colleagues in the chillout zone.
All of this is presented in a full virtual arena where every zone contains live acts. You can choose from over 30 different featured zones to suit your audience. Everything can be customised to your team, company and brand. It’s an ideal social experience that’s as close to a real party as you can get.
60. Virtual Family Frenzy
Some companies love the idea of involving families and children in a virtual experience. This event is a mash up of our favourite quiz and gameshow elements that’s fully adapted to include the entire family. There’s rounds to suit everyone to ensure you get maximum involvement and enjoyment.
You’ll be amazed at how much your family and children will be involved. Rally the kids up when you’re asked to name all the characters from Paw Patrol, get the teenagers involved with the celebrity famous famous, and bring everyone together for the all inclusive creative rounds.
This is a lovely virtual team event that really makes employees feel valued.
PLANNING A 2023 VIRTUAL TEAM BUILDING EVENT? WHAT TO DO NEXT…
Visit our contact page and get in touch to discuss how GOTO Events can run your 2023 Virtual Team Building Event
Our team will give you the right level of advice and options available to suit your group.
For all of our remote team building events, we will ensure you get the right level of fun and entertainment in a safe, upbeat and controlled environment. All of our events have been tried and tested throughout the year, with participants enjoyment as the primary objective.
GOTO Events experiences are all fully risk assessed and compliant with all government requirements. We are accredited with the industry standard Visit Britain ‘Good to Go’ policies.
Click here to contact us for help planning your 2023 Virtual Event.
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Party Packs, Hampers & Gifts for Virtual Team Building Events
6 Good Reasons to Host A Virtual Team Building Event
Cost Effective Packages
Understandably budgets may not be what they were in the past for conventional team building. It’s been a tough and challenging time for a lot of companies over the past couple of years, and 2023 is a tough time to be thinking about spending money. HOWEVER, our virtual team experiences can be a lot more cost effective than conventional events. Without the need to hire a static venue, and the cost of travel and logistics, you can still hold an amazing fun experience for your teams for a fraction of the cost. There might even be something left in the pot for some beers & wine in the post!
Interactive & Engaging
Let’s face it, we’re all a bit Zoomed out. Our virtual team events allow people to relax, step away from work content, engage with each other and interact with colleagues. All of our events purposely steer away from normal video conferencing formats. The activities, games and experiences are all very upbeat, interactive and engaging. Fun and laughter is the key ingredient, which the feedback from all the virtual team events we’ve run, has proved in abundance.
Stay Safe – Have Fun
With all the regulations in place it’s difficult for companies to keep staff motivated and maintain positive teamwork. By hosting a virtual team building experience you will ensure the safety of your staff & teams, whilst still allowing them to switch off, relax and take part in a fun social group experience.
There’s no masks required here!
Involve Friends or Family
A lot of our virtual team events are designed to include the option of people involving their friends or family. Obviously we have to stick to the rule of 6, but a lot of companies are family orientated so we have designed a series of games, events, and experiences that involve children of all ages, partners, or friends. It can often add a great deal of comfort and satisfaction to see your company plan something that benefits your whole family.
Look Ahead & Boost Morale
With a new year, new visions, new strategies and new targets companies need to ensure their staff are on board and motivated for the year ahead. We all thought it would be over by now, but we’re charging on as best we all can. Quarter 1 of 2023 will be another year of change, with a light at the end of the tunnel. It’s also the time to get allay the January blues, keep teams and people motivated, and ensure they maintain the team working skills such as communication, planning, lateral thinking, and the sharing of ideas and information that’s always helped them in the past, and done right virtually, can continue to help as things start to get back to normal.
Have Fun & Connect With Each Other
Fun, engagement and teamwork has always been and always will be a big part of business and social agendas for companies & teams. People are the biggest asset to any organisations. Maintaining positive momentum, and the requirements for people to be working as teams is ever more important given the remote situations we’re all in. All of our virtual team activities allow people to step away from the feeling of Zoom content, and pivot into interactive scenarios where they can work, connected, communicate and play. It’s an essential ingredient, especially at the moment, which when done right, will make an amazing difference to the performance of people and teams.
Make Your Virtual Team Building Event More Social
Include a hamper, party pack or gift delivered to everyone's homes in advance.
Make it feel like a Party
The addition of a party pack, hamper of gift, delivered to everyones homes prior to your event, can make all the difference to a virtual party. Not only does it make for a lovely present for everyone in advance, it adds a great social aspect to the experience.
We can start your session early so everyone can have some social time, crack open a beer, pour a nice glass of wine, and enjoy some sumptuous snacks.
Lot’s to Choose From
Our variety of hampers and party packs make sure there’s something for everyone. The nature of the gift really takes away the feel of work, and with the hand picked selection of food and drink you will always get lots of chat and interaction on all the different flavours.
Our selection ranges from simple pub snacks with beers, wines, prosecco and snacks, to more luxury hampers with more variety and themes such as Wine & Cheese, Gin Lovers or Prosecco Indulgence.
Something for Everyone
Our hampers and party packs offer something for everyone. We offer a full range of alcoholic and non alcoholic options as well as packs to cater for all dietary requirements such as vegan or vegetarian. We can also bespoke any range of hampers with a selection of hand picked items to suit your requirements.
How To Organise A Virtual Team Building Event
A guide on how virtual team events work
How to organise a virtual team building event
Virtual team building events come in many different formats. Choosing the right style of event for your team is critical to get the most fun and engagement from the experience. It’s a leap of faith for everyone, so make sure to speak to our friendly team who will find our about your people and suggest the best style of experience for the group and culture.
Remember, not one size fits all. For example a finance team may well enjoy a very different style of experience to a competitive sales team.
4 steps to organising a virtual team building event
There’s 4 simple steps to organising your event:
1- Speak to an experienced member of our team to talk about the nature of your company, the culture of your people & what style of previous events have worked best in the past.
2 – We’ll then recommend and send you a selection of options for you to take away and share with colleagues
3 – Once you’ve decided what you think will work best, share your thoughts and we’ll give you our honest advise as to what we think will be the best event.
4 – Once you’ve chosen your preferred experience and date, our project management team will take care of the rest. We’ll send you everything you need in advance by email to forward to all participants and be on hand all the way in advance to support you and answer any questions.
Virtual hosts
All our virtual events are presented by a virtual host / compere. The hosts are live, rather than pre recorded. Their role is to be the main face of your entire experience. As soon as everyone logs in, our host will welcome you all to the session and guide you through the event. There are different styles of hosts for different style of events. For example:
Cookery Events – All our virtual cookery events are hosted by Michelin Star trained chefs. They will be the main lead, and also the main chef’s interacting with you throughout the experience of demos and hands on cooking.
Cocktail Making – Again, live professional hosts, but this time our world class bar tender mixologists. As soon as you log into this session they kick off with an amazing demonstration of flaring skills that would put Tom Cruise to shame.
Virtual App Based Games – These include the likes of our virtual escape rooms, virtual murder mystery and virtual around the world. Our hosts welcome everyone, explain the nature of the game & the rules, then split everyone off into mini virtual breakout rooms where they go head to head in fun competition. As they play our hosts dip in and out the different rooms to give commentary and updates on the scores.
Virtual Quizzes & Game Shows – This is where we up the ante with the level of host. For these virtual Christmas events, the host runs the entire show, including all the different rounds. We have different levels of host, all with a very fun comedic approach. We also use celebrity hosts at different levels with upcoming events being hosted by the likes of Vernon Kay.
Pre event information
Planning a virtual team building event can be a nerve racking experience for the organiser. Our team will hold your hand through the entire experience, making it hassle free and easy for you to enjoy the event as much as everyone else.
In advance we send you two events packs. One with all the details on the overall experience, and one as a participant pack to send on to everyone taking part. With everyone’s busy lives, the participant packs are purposely simple, with just one or two links to click to enter our arena. Simply log in, and we do the rest from there,
Posted packs
A lot of virtual team events require packs to be posted to participants in the post. For our virtual cookery experiences, guests receive a lovely box of ingredients plus a chefs hat and apron. For virtual cocktail making everyone receives an exciting kit containing all the required alcohol, mixers, syrups, fruits, mixing equipment and glassware. This is theirs to keep.
For our virtual House Party we send prop packs in advance with all kinds of random objects, all used for the different challenges and games.
How many people can a virtual team building event run for?
There’s no real limit to the number of people that can take part in a virtual team activity, but some events lend themselves better than others to different numbers. For smaller more intimate numbers where you can easily see the other players on screen then our virtual gameshow style events work well such as Master of the Tasks.
For large group virtual events, the app based experiences can run for any size group from 4 upwards. Some versions have the capacity to comfortably deal with numbers into the 1000’s.
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Virtual Christmas Party Ideas for 2023
Top 23 Virtual Christmas Ideas for Companies & Teams
There’s no doubt that the shape of company Christmas parties will be a little bit different this year. Christmas is the perfect opportunity to do something fun, entertaining and engaging for staff especially with a virtual party. Done right it can be the ideal time to thank staff, wrap up the year, put work to one side, say thank you, and just have some good old fashioned fun!
To help we’ve picked our top virtual Christmas party ideas to help get the festive spirit under way for 2023.
How do virtual Christmas parties work?
We’ve taken our most popular conventional Christmas events and adapted them to be run in a virtual environment. Perfect for employees from all over the world to come together, take part and enjoy themselves without the travel.
All events are hosted by a fun, upbeat compere, who will run the show, keep everyone entertained and engaged, and make the entire experience slick, upbeat and engaging.
What if my team are Zoomed Out?
We know the feeling…after nearly a year of video rather than face-to-face contact, the last thing people want is ‘another Zoom meeting’. To combat this all our virtual Christmas parties involve huge levels of participation. Each experience is very different to a normal Zoom session. You’ll notice the difference as soon as you login!
Top 23 Virtual Christmas Party Ideas
Christmas parties and events are a perfect way to bring your team back together in 2023. All of the below ideas are virtual, meaning you can bring everyone together without having to meet in one place. After all you can’t go without a Christmas party!
Virtual events mean that the event can be ran safely and suitable for the current pandemic.
1. Festive Chocolate Making
A virtual Christmas party that’s a real treat for the taste buds. Hosted by our master chocolatier, we’ll take you through the amazing journey of how chocolate goes from bean to bar. It’s then hands on with the ingredients as everyone designs creates & brands their very own unique box of Christmas themed chocolate delights. The event also includes the option of individuals receiving a custom pack with all ingredients, equipment and a surprise gift in the post in advance of your event.
2. Virtual Christmas Cocktail Making
Become the ultimate party host as you learn some very cool tricks & skills to mix a range of delicious great looking famous cocktails. Hosted from our virtual bar our mixologists give you an amazing demonstration of bar skills before we kick in to a range of fun rounds where everyone will learn how to mix famous cocktails such as Mojitos & Sex on the Beach. The final round hots up with a competition to see who can come up with their own award winning drink. This event also includes the option of a full cocktail kit including all required mixers, drinks, fresh fruits & glassware being posted to everyone in advance.
3. Christmas Virtual Murder Mystery
Who dunnit? That’s the ultimate question! We run two versions of our festive Murder Mystery events. One using a high tech Cluedo style app based game, the other with live virtual actors. Each experience tasks teams with the challenge of solving all kinds of clues, examining evidence & hunting for suspects to unravel the crime. Players work in mini teams to share ideas and information to try and work out who was the murderer, what was the murder weapon and what was the motive.
4. The Great Escape Room
A virtual Christmas event using the latest app based technology & amazing augmented reality. Teams go head to head in our virtual arena to battle it out to find hidden clues, complete puzzles, hunt for mystery information and unravel brain busting conundrums. The clocks ticking, the pressures on & the games masters watching. Who will be the first to successfully escape the room and take the win…?
5. Virtual Wine Tasting
Especially popular at Christmas time, our wine themed virtual Christmas party is a favourite for a lot of companies. Hosted by a professional wine expert, we’ll take you on a journey of taste and aroma with wines from around the world. In advance everyone receives a pack containing all the tasting materials and an amazing selection of different vintage wines. As well as being great fun & educational, this event is a great way to virtually socialise and enjoy a glass or two!
6. Festive Chef
There’s no better time to learn some amazing skills, and no better person to teach you than our Michelin Star Chef! We have a variety of cooking options from Christmas themed dishes, the great Bakeathon, 2-3 course meals, sushi making & even the stunning Molecular Gastronomy. We either send individuals a list of ingredients or why not let us send them a lovely pack of food, goodies and a mystery gift with everything they need for this amazing virtual cooking experience.
7. Virtual Horse Racing
Get ready for some serious fun and excitement as we bring all the thrills of horse racing direct to your screen. In a fun team head to head competition, players study the forms of each runner for each race before deciding how much fun money they want to bet and on which runner. Our live bookie will then take all bets before each amazing race is run. All races are taken from real events at real stadiums, so this is as close as you can get to the real thing!
8. Gameshow Bonanza
We’ve taken everything you know from the most famous game shows and mixed them into one fast paced, action packed, fully interactive, comedic hosted experience. In virtual teams, everyone goes head to head in a variety of hilarious rounds that promise to offer something for everyone. Laughter is guaranteed, and be warned, this is no ordinary quiz!
9. Task The Master
One of our favourite events for all year round, but even more fun with our festive twist. Inspired by the famous Task Master TV show, we bring this side splitting event to life, complete with a professional comedic host playing the role of the master. Everyone receives in advance a game pack with everything they need to play. Teams then go head to head in fun competition to try and crack a range of absolutely crazy challenges.
10. Deal or Not Real
Another TV inspired experience taken from the famous Deal or No Deal game show. Teams take part in a range of fun tasks and energizers in advance to win funds. They then enter the nail biting series of rounds against the banker to see which team has the nerves of steel to win the most money and take the win.
11. Festive Frenzy
Festive frenzy is one of our latest Christmas themed experiences. Loaded with all kinds of fun tasks, games and challenges, this virtual event is a great experience to create a real social scene.
Themed rounds include:
- Festive brain busters
- Individual and team photo and video challenges
- Collaborative challenges where you all come together at various points throughout the game to compete en masse
- Singing and laughter!
- Grand finale to crown your winning team
12. Musical Bingo
Like bingo? Like music? Then this could be for you. Musical Bingo is a pure fun fast paced version of normal bingo, but with music instead on numbers. It works well for Virtual Christmas parties where a pure social fun, relaxed experience is required.
Hosted by our professional comperes, we welcome everyone to the game, and explain the simple rules of play. Everyone receives a musical bingo card listing all the different songs and artists. We then pump up the wheels of steel as we flow through all kinds of music tracks from different genres and decades.
Recognise the song? Strike it off, and keep your ears peeled for the next tune! Just like normal bingo, there’s winners for two lines, three lines and of course the full house. This is a virtual Christmas party activity that will always bring fun laughter and energy to the table.
13. Virtual Charity Skateboard Build
If you’re looking for an virtual event that offers a heart-warming feel good factor, then our charity concept is ideal. The premise behind this experience is to benefit underprivileged children this Christmas. For some kids out there, Christmas isn’t the happy time we all know and love. This virtual experience enables you to give to an amazing cause and bring the magic of Christmas to lives of people who need it most.
In advance everyone receives a pack containing a kit to build a full size skateboard, art materials, tools, stencils and instructions. Guided by our live virtual hosts and artists everyone builds and decorates their very own unique skateboard. We then arrange for couriers to collect the finished items where they return to us for safety checks before they are wrapped and delivered to the designated charity.
14. Virtual House Party
Sit back, crack open a beer, pour a glass of wine and be prepared to have the most fun possible from a virtual Christmas party. In advance everyone receives a game pack in the post containing everything they need to play. Items are as random as a toilet roll, Sellotape, a small Tupperware box, dice and a lolly stick. They all have a roll to play!
As soon as you log in, our lively host welcomes you to the fun and explains the rules. Teams now go head to head on a range of hilarious challenges that will literally have you in stitches of laughter to watch and play. Imagine Celebrity Juice mixed with The Generation Game and you have House Party!
15. I’m Working From Home Get Me Outta Here!
Inspired by popular tv shows, this is our Christmas take on a jungle themed challenge where’s it’s your chance to pit yourselves against the celebrities and see if you’ve got what it takes to be crowned the kings and queens of the virtual office.
Another virtual Christmas event where teams receive packs in the post with everything they need to play. As soon as teams log in they’re thrust into a series of themed rounds in fun competition. One of our favourites for this event is ‘nominate’. If your team wins the jackpot, they get the chance to nominate a player from a competing team. Everyone receives edible critters in their posted packs. You can guess what comes next!
16. Virtual Wreath Making
Impress your guest at the table this year with your very own handmade Christmas wreath. This festive themed experience allows everyone to not only create an amazing masterpiece, but learn a new skill that you can use year-on-year.
You will receive your packs prior to the event. These packs contain everything that you need, including array of natural resources such as pine, foliage and dried fruit. Hosted by our wreath making expert, you’ll learn the full process before presenting to the rest of the group.
17. Virtual Murder In The Mountains
If you’re looking for an event with a twist this Christmas then Murder In The Mountains is the one for you. Whilst enjoying a winter ski trip on the mountains, disaster strikes. A huge avalanche happens leaving a dead body in the snow!
Whilst you’re taking refuge in an abandoned chalet, evidence starts to emerge which could be linked to a murder. This fully interactive themed virtual murder mystery experience will immerse you into an intriguing challenge that will have everyone on their edge of their seats.
18. Virtual Railroad Murders
You’re about to onboard a journey back to the roaring 1920s to solve a murder case that’s on the railway lines. It’s down to you to catch the killer and solve the crime before your train terminates at its final destination. Its suspected the killers are still aboard the and must be captured before they strike again.
Using the latest interactive map technology including augmented reality, your team will become mega detectives as to try and unravel the crime. The event is a race against time as the clock is ticking. Can your team solve this hideous crime before the train reaches its final destination?
19. Virtual Christmas Bake Off
Host by our Michelin Star chef, this event will allow you and your teams to create a variety of Christmas treats ready for the festive season.
Individuals will receive event packs in advance, which includes all the ingredients that they will need to make their culinary delights. Example bakes include Christmas Themed Cupcakes, Gingerbread Houses, Mince Pies, and our famous Christmas Pudding Chocolates! Will you be star baker?
20. Festive Around the World
Take your team on a virtual festive trip around the world, across 40,000 virtual miles whilst visiting 22 countries… that’s a lot of air miles! Starting in Argentina, each country contains a series of tasks & challenges to earn participants Travel Credits to make it to their next destination.
21. Virtual TV Quiz Mania
Get ready to be immersed into a world of virtual entertainment as we bring you the ultimate quiz / gameshow TV mash-up. Test your TV knowhow in our entertaining show that will see your teams going head-to-head through a selection of unique rounds including trivia, creative and photo / video challenges. Each upbeat interactive round will test your knowhow as you complete questions and tasks based on much loved TV favourites.
22. Virtual Quiz Through The Decades
Let us take you back in time with this trip down memory lane with some classic decades. Maybe you remember the Swinging Sixties or maybe the noughties. Your virtual journey through the decades starts with a step back in time to the 60s where players go head-to-head on three amazing rounds including trivia, creative tasks based on music, film, general trivia and gadgets from each decade as we move through the years.
23. Virtual Bear Grylls
Our Bear Grylls survival experience is an interactive team based activity that engages people working from home in a fully themed Bear Grylls adventure.
The event mirrors the focus of our live events but in a virtual arena hosted by Bear Grylls trained survival experts. But don’t worry, we won’t be lighting fires on the carpet.
PLANNING A 2023 CHRISTMAS PARTY? WHAT TO DO NEXT…
Visit our contact page and get in touch to discuss how GOTO Events can run your 2023 Virtual Christmas Party.
Our team will give you the right level of advice and options available to suit your group. We can also happily advise on alternative options for live Christmas events, and what the current government guidelines and regulations are.
For all of our corporate events and Christmas parties, we will ensure you get the right level of fun and entertainment in a safe, upbeat and controlled environment. All of our events have been tried and tested throughout the year, with participants enjoyment as the primary objective. We’ll help you see out 2023 with a bang!
GOTO Events experiences are all fully risk assessed and compliant with all government requirements. We are accredited with the industry standard Visit Britain ‘Good to Go’ policies.
Click here to contact us for help planning your 2023 Christmas Party.
6 Good Reasons to Host A Virtual Christmas Party
Cost Effective Packages
Understandably budgets may not be what they were in the past for Christmas parties. It’s been a tough and challenging time for a lot of companies, and Christmas is a tough time to be thinking about spending money. HOWEVER, our virtual Christmas party packages can be a lot more cost-effective than conventional events. Without the need to hire a static venue, and the cost of food & drinks, you can still hold an amazing fun experience for your teams for a fraction of the cost. There might even be something left in the pot for some beers & wine in the post!
Interactive & Engaging
Let’s face it, we can all get a bit “zoomed” out. At Christmas, people just want to let their hair down, forget work and have a good time with colleagues. It’s also a time to celebrate what everyone has achieved against the odds in 2023. All of our events purposely steer away from normal video conferencing formats. The activities, games and experiences are all very upbeat, interactive and engaging. Fun and laughter is the key ingredient, which the feedback from all the virtual team events we’ve run this year, has proved flows in abundance.
Stay Safe – Have Fun
With all the regulations in place it’s hard to know what will be possible this Christmas. By hosting a virtual Christmas party you will ensure the safety of your staff & teams, whilst still allowing them to switch off, relax and take part in a fun social group experience.
Involve Friends or Family
A lot of our virtual Christmas party package events are designed to include the option of people involving their friends or family. It can often add a great deal of comfort and satisfaction to see your company plan something that benefits your whole family.
Say Thanks & Boost Morale
What a year it’s been! We all thought it would be over by now, but we’re charging on as best we all can. Christmas is a time when companies say thank you to their staff with a good old fashioned knees up. A spirit lifting, rewarding and morale boosting experience is needed more than ever this year. Don’t cancel the fun. Contact our team to discuss all the different options available to see what would work best for you,
Enjoy A Drink or Two…
Good food and drink are often in abundance at Christmas parties. If we can’t bring you to the party, then let’s bring the party to you. We offer a whole host of food and drink packages which are delivered in advance to everyone’s homes. Enjoy some cold beers, mulled wine, or soft drinks options, alongside food ranging from table snacks to home buffets. Or why not conjure up your own delights with the addition of virtual cocktail making, or a virtual cookery / chocolate making experience hosted by a Michelin Star chef.
Make Your Virtual Christmas Party More Social
Include a hamper, party pack or gift delivered to everyone's homes in advance.
Make it feel like a Party
The addition of a party pack, hamper of gift, delivered to everyones homes prior to your event, can make all the difference to a virtual party. Not only does it make for a lovely present for everyone in advance, it adds a great social aspect to the experience.
We can start your session early so everyone can have some social time, crack open a beer, pour a nice glass of wine, and enjoy some sumptuous snacks.
Lots to Choose From
Our variety of hampers and party packs make sure there’s something for everyone. The nature of the gift really takes away the feel of work, and with the hand picked selection of food and drink you will always get lots of chat and interaction on all the different flavours.
Our selection ranges from simple pub snacks with beers, wines, prosecco and snacks, to more luxury hampers with more variety and themes such as Wine & Cheese, Gin Lovers or Prosecco Indulgence.
Something for Everyone
Our hampers and party packs offer something for everyone. We offer a full range of alcoholic and non alcoholic options as well as packs to cater for all dietary requirements such as vegan or vegetarian. We can also bespoke any range of hampers with a selection of hand picked items to suit your requirements.
How To Organise A Virtual Christmas Party
A guide on how virtual Christmas parties work
How to organise a virtual Christmas party
Virtual Christmas parties come in many different formats. Choosing the right style of event for your team is critical to get the most fun and engagement from the experience. For nearly all companies across the world 2023 will be the first year they have ever organised a virtual Christmas event or activity. It’s a leap of faith for everyone, so make sure to speak to our friendly team who will find out about your people and suggest the best style of experience for the group and culture.
Remember, not one size fits all. For example a finance team may well enjoy a very different style of experience to a competitive sales team.
4 steps to organising a virtual Christmas party
There’s 4 simple steps to organising your event:
1 – Speak to an experienced member of our team to talk about the nature of your company, the culture of your people & what style of previous Christmas parties have worked best in the past.
2 – We’ll then recommend and send you a selection of options for you to take away and share with colleagues
3 – Once you’ve decided what you think will work best, share your thoughts and we’ll give you our honest advise as to what we think will be the best event.
4 – Once you’ve chosen your preferred experience and date, our project management team will take care of the rest. We’ll send you everything you need in advance by email to forward to all participants and be on hand all the way in advance to support you and answer any questions.
Virtual hosts
All our virtual Christmas party events are presented by a virtual host / compere. The hosts are live, rather than pre recorded. Their role is to be the main face of your entire experience. As soon as everyone logs in, our host will welcome you all to the session and guide you through the event. There are different styles of hosts for different style of events. For example:
- Cookery Events – All our virtual cookery events are hosted by Michelin Star trained chefs. They will be the main lead, and also the main chef’s interacting with you throughout the experience of demos and hands on cooking.
- Cocktail Making – Again, live professional hosts, but this time our world class bar tender mixologists. As soon as you log into this session they kick off with an amazing demonstration of flaring skills that would put Tom Cruise to shame.
- Virtual App Based Games – These include the likes of our virtual escape rooms, virtual murder mystery and virtual around the world. Our hosts welcome everyone, explain the nature of the game & the rules, then split everyone off into mini virtual breakout rooms where they go head to head in fun competition. As they play our hosts dip in and out the different rooms to give commentary and updates on the scores.
- Virtual Quizzes & Game Shows – This is where we up the ante with the level of host. For these virtual Christmas events, the host runs the entire show, including all the different rounds. We have different levels of host, all with a very fun comedic approach.
Pre event information
Planning a virtual Christmas party can be a nerve-racking experience for the organiser. Our team will hold your hand through the entire experience, making it hassle-free and easy for you to enjoy the event as much as everyone else.
How many people can a virtual Christmas party run for?
There’s no real limit to the number of people that can take part in a virtual Christmas party activity, but some events lend themselves better than others to different numbers. For smaller more intimate numbers where you can easily see the other players on screen then our virtual gameshow style events work well such as Master of the Tasks.
For large group virtual events, the app-based experiences can run for any size group from 4 upwards. Some versions have the capacity to comfortably deal with numbers into the 1000’s.
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Virtual Around the World
11 Different Team Building Events You Won't Believe Exist
As the UK’s leading supplier of team building activities, GOTO Events offer hundreds of possibilities, venues, and opportunities that will make a lasting impression on your work colleagues.
The reason?
Our events are not like those traditional and boring activities you might have experienced before. We offer wildly different team building events that will inspire your team with a bonding experience that will also benefit the workplace.
Below you can see just a small sample of what we believe are our best different team building events and activities on offer this year. If you are looking for something different, check out the ideas below.
1. Under Pressure
Under Pressure is a fast-paced, competitive and fun experience that will have your team working together to complete the challenges and beat the other teams.
Featuring our very own 3m x 3m inflatable cube that’s able to be transported to any location, as well as an experienced and charismatic host, it’s one of the more different challenges on offer. With four aides available, Swap a Contestant, Pass, Simplify or Trial Run, your teams will have to engage delegation skills and work together in order to get the best out of everyone in the team.
2. The Crystal Challenge
Will you start the fans please! Based on the popular and entertaining game show from the 90’s, and recently rebooted for modern audiences, the Crystal Challenge incorporates all of the best parts from the show to give you a fun yet competitive and different team-building experience.
Featuring four different zones: Aztec, Futuristic, Medieval and Industrial, teams will take part in different mental, physical and mystery challenges to win time within the final Crystal Dome. You then get a few frenzied minutes in the dome, collecting as many tokens as possible. The team with the most gold tokens wins the day!
3. Challenge 100
Featuring over 100 challenges and games, your teams will have to delegate which members of your team are best to do each challenge. With your colleagues all working simultaneously around the 4 different zones, including Creative, Sports, Sensory and Childsplay, it’s a race against the clock to complete as many challenges as possible.
From plate spinning and circus skills to video games and indoor golf, your teams have to complete each challenge to win a stamp on their page, with the team who has the most pages stamped by the end of the day is the winner! Ready set go!
4. Escape Room
Escape Rooms have never been more popular, with dozens of locations setting up in cities all across the UK. But, with our one-of-a-kind mobile escape rooms, we can offer a different team building event and experience that comes to you!
Choose between our four unique rooms: The pirate-themed ‘Pieces of Eight’, the criminal ‘Prison Break’, the chemical ‘Science Lab’ and the apocalyptic themed ‘Bunker’. Once locked inside the escape room, your teams will have to work together to complete a number of challenges and tasks, as well as solve puzzles in order to find the keys and escape the room before the time runs out!
Our fully mobile escape rooms have a range of different themes and challenges, from pirates to scientists! With a Host, first aider, PA system and up-to-date equipment supplied, there are no instructions as it is down to your teams to think outside of the box in order to solve the puzzles and escape the room.
There is a huge selection of mind-twisting puzzles, riddles, physical challenges and clues that will play to the strengths of everyone in the team so that they can work together and escape in time. The team able to escape the quickest are the winners (if they escape at all…)
5. It’s a Knockout
Taking inspiration from the hilarious 70’s TV show, our portable inflatable assault courses bring all the fun and foam for you and your colleagues to take part in. With a range of safety tested and up-to-date inflatable slides, assault courses and costumes to choose from, our engaging and entertaining host will guide and referee your teams through four to eight different challenges.
With a medal ceremony for the winning team at the end of the day, even the losers will have a big smile on their face and have an experience to keep the office talking for months on end!
6. Task the Master
The funniest team event ever, Task the Master has all the irreverent humour and style of games from the popular TV program, with over 25 individual, funny and unique mind-bending challenges for you and your team to take part in.
We have challenges ranging from separating colours smarties with boxing gloves, moving potatoes with giant chop sticks and squeezing lemons while standing in icy water. You and your colleagues will have to impress the Task Master in his famous red chair with your ingenuity and out-of-the-box thinking, which will bring out the best qualities in every member of your team!
7. Bakeathon
With the Bake Off thoroughly getting people bitten by the baking bug, our own twist on the format allows you and your co-workers to create tasty treats for everyone in the office. This different team building experience is able to be tailored to be more fun and relaxed or more focused on team building, whichever you would prefer for your team!
With a trained and professional pastry chef, your team will work towards creating a range of baked goods. For ideas, they can take a look at our supplied cookery books and exclusive recipes from famous hotels including the Dorchester London and the Chewton Glen. Even those who aren’t the best at cooking will get something out of the day, and it may even inspire people to get baking at home!
8. Teamopoly
While Monopoly is infamous for causing arguments among teams and families, Teamopoly has them working together in order to win the game. With 90 minutes on the clock to get around the board, your teams will need to take part in separate team building challenges specially designed to empty your pockets of loose change. Money is very much an object in this game, with the team with the most money left at the end claiming victory.
This experience features a 4m square giant monopoly board, giant pieces and counters and your very own Mr Monopoly acting as host to talk your teams through the games and challenges. There are over 6 different team building challenges that will bring out the best in everyone’s strengths.
9. Masterpiece Challenge
The Masterpiece challenge is perfect for bringing out any of the natural artists and creatives in your team, combining artistic skill with mini challenges that play to everyone’s individual strengths.
In teams of 6 to 8 people, you must create a piece of art. You will compete against one another in several challenges to win artistic supplies, which you will then use to add to your own piece of artwork. By the end of the day, everyone’s artwork will be put together into a large collaborative artwork that you can hang in your office as a commemoration of the day.
10. Wacky Racers
Named after the famous 60’s TV show, Wacky Racers isn’t just for the petrol-heads in your team, it’s for everyone.
Each team will have their own karts, which they will need to work together in order to design it, budget it, build it and then pitch it to our board of investors to get funding. With each of the four team challenges incorporating some skills appliable in both a creative and corporate environment. The day culminates in Pole Position, a final head-to-head race against one another’s karts to get to the finish line and win the day for your team.
Want to know more about why we’re different?
We hope you find something here from our selection of different team building activities. If you would like to find out more or speak with an expert team building specialist, please contact us.
Alternatively, you can browse for more ideas from our large roster by viewing all events and ideas.