In the current climate, more and more businesses are looking for ways to build and maintain relationships within teams. Remote employees are often focused on their own tasks, forgetting the importance of interacting with co-workers like you would in an office environment.
Keeping morale in any organisation is crucial but can be challenging when you cannot physically be together, with the day to day in every organisation being disrupted by COVID-19.
Uptown Events have been working hard with our clients both existing and new, to run exciting and interactive virtual team building sessions.
Virtual events have been proven to increase positivity, and in turn productivity.

Virtual Away Day

We combine our interactive app with video conferencing software to bring you the latest in collaborative, virtual team building. The aim of the game is simple… Score as many points as possible before you run out of time! Working in remote teams, you will need to decide upon the best answer to each question to win maximum points. Playing from any location including home, participants will use their own devices to answer questions and complete challenges. Team strategy is the key to winning this challenge; players must communicate and work with the other remote players in order to progress. All whilst racing against the ticking clock! Please see demo video fore more information.

Cocktail Masterclass

We can’t meet up in our favourite cocktail bar just yet, so we have brought the cocktails to you in the comfort of your own home. Our master mixologist will take you through the steps to recreate iconic cocktails and mocktails, we can also create bespoke cocktails.
A shopping list will be provided in advance with all ingredients required, alternatively hampers can be delivered to participants containing all ingredients and even branded cocktail shakers for when you can entertain at home again!

Cook Live

Have you ever wanted to serve a delicious and intricate three course meal, guided step by step by a professional chef? Cook Live challenges you to learn a new range of skills, whilst cooking up a storm. At the end of the session you will ask yourself if you ever need to visit a restaurant again!
You will receive a complete list of ingredients and utensils needed, on the night tech support and recipe support are available.
Hampers can also be delivered to all participants beforehand, containing all necessary ingredients.

The Escape Room

Keeping teams connected, energised and communicating effectively in a virtual workplace can be hard work, but has never been more vital. The Escape Room is the ultimate way to collaborate with your team mates remotely and work together to solve puzzles and challenges as a group, the key to winning being strategy, quick thinking and communication.
The various missions provide something fun for everyone in the group. Your team will be able to interact with a member of staff who will guide them throughout the activity from start to finish.

Wellness Workshops

The new normal may mean spending much more time at home. As a business leader, it’s important to be mindful of what your employees might be going through.
Wellness Workshops are a great opportunity to enhance both the physical and mental fitness of your workforce. We have a wide range of workshops and classes to participate in, for teams or individuals who want to start, end or break up the working day in a relaxed and healthy way.
Popular wellness workshops include: Sleep Workshop, Stress Seminar, Resilience Training, Mindfulness, Nutritional Workshop, Fitness Classes, Yoga and Mental Health Webinars. These workshops can be a unique and relaxing way to enhance employee wellness and reduce stress, ultimately increasing morale and productivity.

Musical Bingo

It’s just like regular bingo, but instead of shouting out numbers we play songs! Each round takes on a different theme, based on either a decade, genre or just a random quirky topic. Online digital bingo cards enable teams to virtually mark and score as they play.
Musical Bingo is a unique and energising activity to appeal to everyone, bringing teams together and encouraging some healthy competition!

The Quiz

The best way to keep the brain active is to engage socially and test your knowledge. Keep your team engaged and communicating with this challenging general knowledge quiz, equipped with staff and a quiz master to guide you.
This remote quiz will involve your group being split into teams and given their own chat room where they can interact with their teammates. A separate chat channel will also encourage all participants to engage in the quick fire rounds on music, TV and sports to name a few. Members of staff will be marking throughout to ensure a fair winner, and the winning team will receive prizes sent to their houses to enjoy.

The Mind Reader

Bring your team together to witness an incredible mind reader and mentalist. This interactive show is guaranteed to enthral, amaze and leave everybody guessing how it can be done!
This slick performance is delivered with razor sharp wit and a deceptive mind, engaging with every member of the audience to make the show fully interactive.
We can also offer an online Mind Class, teaching the secret art of body language, influence and persuasion, lie detection and negotiation techniques.

Catchphrase

Based on the iconic TV game. Participants will be shown animated catchphrases, with teams given 60 seconds to try and guess the answer. Points are rewarded or deducted for correct or incorrect answers.
This is a fun and competitive game, the team with the highest score at the end of the day wins.

Body Rap

A simple and fun energiser that brings the whole group together through the unification of music. Body Rap uses the power of humour, rhythm and shared experience to energise and unify teams with positive memorable results. Quick, quirky, and incredibly effective, Body Rap is an off-the-wall musical conference pick-me-up guaranteed to liven up the most challenging audience. Your facilitator will break the ice with some fun and simple
movement and vocal exercises, before taking the audience through their challenge of becoming a human orchestra.

Virtual Haka

An inspiring display of strength and pride, the ancient haka war dance has been used for centuries to unite tribes and challenge opponents; making it a highly effective team activity used to boost energy and ignite enthusiasm. Inspired by the Maori people, prepare to exercise your facial expressions! A passionate, action packed delivery of movement and vocals to encourage self-expression and motivate delegates. They will get everyone up on their feet and full of energy (even if they are in their home)! This can be done in larger or smaller groups.

Give us a Clue

Charades is just as fun and engaging online as the classic, in-person version.
People are put into teams, the facilitator gives the clue to one team member. The rest of the team watch and listen. When the team have guessed the correct answer, the facilitator will give the team a score based on difficulty, amount of time it took and whether any cheating took place!

Human Juke Box (Musician)

Guests pre-request from the list of numbers provided and the Musician will perform for them all. Live music – singalong!

Game show host

A number of fun quick fire games, with points that can be accumulated for one of three top prizes at the end of the day.

Virtual Photobooth – the Challenger

4-8 hilarious poses you and your teammates will need to perfect to gain the highest amount of points!