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Team Building Activities in Durham

Team Building Activities in Durham

Team building activities in Durham are challenge-led: the Crystal Team Challenge is the single most-requested activity, which is unusual across our locations, with Challenge 100 and the Betrayers close behind. Funktion Events has handled corporate team building in Durham since 2007, part of a UK tally of more than 10,000 team building events, with a dedicated event manager planning it beforehand and our event team bringing the activity and the equipment to your Durham office or venue.

Durham is one of our North East locations. Whatever you go for, we size it to your group, and if you need a room our venue finding is free.

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Smartphone Urban Treasure Hunt

Smartphone Urban Treasure Hunt

  • Explore your location
  • Self-run, start anytime
  • Great value, app technology
  • Team challenges & puzzles
Smartphone Pub Treasure Hunt

Smartphone Pub Treasure Hunt

  • Fully organised pub quiz hunt
  • Self run – start any time
  • Test general pub knowledge
  • Hilarious team challenges
The Ultimate Treasure Hunt

The Ultimate Treasure Hunt

  • The best of the best
  • Exciting trivia & quizzes
  • Huge variety of challenges
  • GPS smartphone app
Outdoor Escape Rooms

Outdoor Escape Rooms

  • Outdoor escape rooms
  • Improves problem solving
  • Interactive fun host
  • Tasks, clues, Immersive challenges
GPS: Spy School

GPS: Spy School

  • Spy themed challenges
  • Self run – start any time
  • Great value, latest technology
  • GPS and image recognition
GPS: Space Survival

GPS: Space Survival

  • Space-themed challenges
  • Activity Co-ordinator
  • Explore the city centre
  • Fun & Competitive
Smartphone Christmas Treasure Hunt

Smartphone Christmas Treasure Hunt

  • Pub quiz & bar crawl in one
  • Self-run, so start anytime
  • Great value, app technology
  • Perfect for Christmas parties

Popular Team Building Activities in Durham

Drawn from our own Durham enquiry data, this is what local teams ask about most, and it is a noticeably challenge-heavy mix. The full choice is in the grid above, or browse all team building activities.

Activity Type What you do Best for
The Crystal Team Challenge Problem-solving Four zones of physical, mental, mystery and skill games, crystals won against the clock Competitive, high-energy teams
Challenge 100 Active A hundred quick-fire mini-challenges spread across a room for teams to clear Lots of short rounds
The Betrayers Tactical game A Traitors-style game of secret roles, missions and eliminations Trust & strategy
Smartphone Urban Treasure Hunt Treasure hunt App-led hunt around the city solving clues and photo tasks Getting teams out and about
Chocolate Making Food & drink Truffle and bar making with a chocolatier, all ingredients provided Hands-on creativity

Rather sort by format? Head into indoor, outdoor, food and drink, evening, treasure hunt and charity team building, set up a corporate away day in Durham, run it virtual for remote teams, or book Christmas team building.

Team Building Venues in Durham

Most Durham sessions run at your own office or a room you already use, with plenty happening in local hotels and function rooms around the city centre and the cathedral quarter, and treasure hunts and outdoor games using the streets and the riverside. We cover the whole of County Durham, so Chester-le-Street, Bishop Auckland, Spennymoor and Consett are all within reach. No space of your own? Our free venue finding service sorts one for your numbers and location at no extra cost.

What Every Team Building Event Includes

  • We come to you – our event team travels to your office or venue anywhere in the UK, with all the kit and setup.
  • A dedicated event manager – one point of contact who plans the day with you and runs it on the day.
  • Free venue finding – if you need a space, we source the right one for your group size and location at no extra cost.
  • Fully insured and ABTA-bonded (Y6501) – every event is covered and your booking is protected.

Teams We've Run These For

AstraZeneca★★★★★“Everyone enjoyed themselves very much” KPMG★★★★★“It was fantastic, I'd thoroughly recommend” Scottish FA★★★★★“We had a great event, thank you!” Strutt & Parker★★★★★“We had a great time, thank you so much” LAKA★★★★★“It was superb, thank you so much!”

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Izzie - Corporate Event Manager

“Tell me your numbers, your date and roughly what you are after, and I will sort the activity, the staff and a Durham venue if you need one, so all your team has to do is turn up.”

Izzie
Corporate Event Manager

Team Building in Durham FAQs

Do you cover Durham and County Durham?

Yes. Our team comes to you across Durham and County Durham, including Chester-le-Street, Bishop Auckland, Spennymoor and Consett. The kit for the activity travels up with the team.

Durham events usually run at your own office or a room you already use, and we also work in local hotels and function rooms, with treasure hunts and outdoor games using the city and the riverside. If you need a space, we will sort one.

Durham is distinctly challenge-led. The Crystal Team Challenge is the single most-requested activity here, unusual among our locations, followed by Challenge 100, the Betrayers, our smartphone urban treasure hunt and chocolate making.

Yes, free of charge. Our venue finding service sorts a room to fit your group and part of Durham, and because the venue settles the commission, you pay exactly what a direct booking costs.

The lowest-priced activities start at around £18 per person, with the final figure set by what you choose, your numbers and the length of the session. Send the details and a full quote follows, usually within 30 minutes.

Around two to three hours fits most, and sits well ahead of an evening. We can also grow it into a half or full day with a couple of activities.

From six through to several hundred. A small team runs one activity together; a bigger Durham group is split into rounds or run side-by-side, with the staff to keep pace.

A few weeks ahead is comfortable. The summer and December are our busiest stretches, so give those more runway, but late dates are often doable.

For a large Durham group, the Crystal Team Challenge and Challenge 100 both handle numbers well. Both rotate teams through stations or zones, so everyone is busy at once.

Yes. The Crystal Team Challenge, Challenge 100, the Betrayers and chocolate making all run indoors, so winter weather never changes the plan.

Yes. We have run team building for companies from AstraZeneca to KPMG, and as an ABTA-bonded business rated Excellent on Trustpilot, a Durham booking sits on the same record.
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Reviews for Durham

Rating 5.0
Jane Klotz
7th July 2023
We had an absolute blast! No injuries and lots of laughs. It’s going to be a hard one to beat next year!
Rating 5.0
Adriane Horner
27th June 2023
The event was a huge success. Paul and Alex were absolutely fantastic and all of the activities were a huge hit with our staff. We would like to extend a huge thank you to everyone involved – especially Paul and Alex – on making this day a success. We highly recommend Challenge 100 to anyone wishing to bring teams together as there was something to satisfy everyone within the activity booklet.