For event planners winter can mean planning both the Christmas party and the 2025 kickoff event. It can feel like immense pressure for the person organising their internal corporate events to find something that is inclusive, fun, memorable and engaging.
Whatever you are planning to do with colleagues this winter, we’ve teamed up with corporate event and team building experts Eventurous to make it a social and stress free affair.
Our central, modern and large-scale facilities together with Eventurous and their award winning full event management services means we offer a one stop solution for all your winter corporate event planning needs.
To assist you in keeping the team motivated and engaged throughout the winter months, our experts have put together their favourite Christmas party and 2025 kick off event ideas for maximum motivation.
Cracking Christmas Party Picks
1. Christmas Casino
Add some glitz and glamour to your end of year celebrations with a Christmas Casino evening. Casino entertainment works great alongside an evening dinner or awards. Known as what we call, ‘Free Play Games’, this style of entertainment permits a more free flowing Christmas party, giving guests the option to participate as and when they please throughout the evening. With professional croupiers and games such as Blackjack, Roulette and the Wheel of Fortune your guests are promised an authentic and highly competitive casino experience without the need to break the bank, thanks to our fun money.
2. Bangers Bingo
Is your team an outgoing bunch who loves to party? Then consider the iconic and unique evening entertainment that is Bangers Bingo. A corporate twist on the popular ‘Bongos Bingo’, this evening entertainment option brings a fun level of 10! Laugh all night long with your colleagues as you win wacky prizes, partake in lip sync battles and dance offs to all your favourite bangers from across the decades. Eventurous hosts and DJs ensure there’s something for all with this ultimate crowd-pleaser of work Christmas party.
3. Race Nights
Take your team to the races for their work Christmas party but without the travel? We’ve teamed up with Eventurous to bring the races to you! We bring an authentic day at the races with our professional tote desks, fun money, live host and virtual races. Watch as colleagues get competitive, it’s the perfect way to ramp up energy after your Christmas dinner or awards.
4. Game Shows
Our award winning team building partners at Eventurous were voted Team Building Company of the Year for good reason! Their range of popular game shows are inspired but in no way affiliated by the nation’s favourite TV hits. There are two favourites for the work Christmas party. They can be planned as a stand alone activity or as high energy entertainment for your corporate dinner.
- Minute to Win It is a fast-paced, hilariously fun game show with high participation levels. Contestants from each team go against the stopwatch with just 60 seconds to complete a series of quirky tasks that promise to have all team members cheering on the edge of their seats.
- Festive Fortunes, just like the TV programme is a quiz show that requires teams to go head to head and guess the top answers when they hear those famous words… “The Survey said”. Up the stakes and competitive spirit by introducing prizes or asking teams to raise money for charity.
5. Murder Mystery
Make your work Christmas party dinner full of surprises and mystery with our Murder Mystery evening entertainment. Watch the thrill on your team’s face as they are greeted by the gory stories of characters from the past. This fun and unique experience can be tailored to our location – Birmingham, leaving guests fully immerged in the tales of the UKs second largest city, as they guess who among them is the killer.
6. Bandeoke
Get ready for the ultimate all singing all dancing office Christmas party with Bandeoke entertainment. Get up in front of your colleagues and sing festive favourites like a rock star with a live band supporting you. This is Christmas karaoke like no other. Perfect for injecting some high energy interactive entertainment to your Christmas event, it never fails to raise Christmas spirit.
7. Christmas Treasure Hunts
Does your team spend the best part of their year sitting in an office at a desk? Get everyone outdoors soaking up the wonders of the city at the most magical time of year on one of our Christmas team Treasure Hunts in Birmingham. In teams you will go head to head on a Scavenger Hunt across Birmingham, with the aim of finding and completing fun and festive challenges for points. Your team will use GPS and quiz technology on their team iPad to find challenge hotspots located across Christmas markets, landmarks and attractions. Will your team be the ones to gain the most points before time is up?
Head back to The Eastside Rooms, just 10 minutes from the city centre and prepare to laugh hysterically as you watch the funniest moments from the hunt. Continue celebrating in one of our many function rooms.
Early Year Event Essentials
8. Conference Energisers
Conferences require more than ever before to keep our attendees engaged. One of the ways you can increase engagement is with a conference energiser. These are 30 minute activities which act as a surprise element to keep attendees on their toes. Ideal at the beginning of your conference or after lunch. A popular choice is the Haka Warrior Workshop. Ran by authentic Maori warriors, guests will be up on their feet learning the powerful and motivating moves of the Haka!
9. Conference Ice Breakers
Delegates expect more than a PowerPoint presentation and beige buffet, it’s 2025! Add value to their experience with a Conference Ice Breaker. These are short 30 minute team building activities which are designed to be done around your conference space. They help break down communication barriers, which is particularly useful when you are bringing people together who don’t see each other all that often. Ice breakers are a great way to set up for the day, encouraging creativity and collaboration for the best return on your event!
10. Table Top Indoor Team Building
Tabletop team building works just as well as any other, in fact it can work exceptionally well as a break mid-conference to help delegates connect and work together. Popular favourites include:
- Tabletop escape rooms Diamond Heist: a strategic and mind bending race to crack codes and work your way through the locked box to steal the Maltese Diamond before the police catch up with you or your opposing teams. This high intensity, high adrenaline indoor team building activity leaves your delegates feeling energised and accomplished.
- The Lost Pages: a new team building activity unique to Eventurous, whereby attendees immerse themselves into the lost pages of an explorer’s diary. Teams will go head to head in solving the mysteries and riddles of the lost pages.
- Master of Tasks: if you are looking for something a bit quirkier at your kick off event or conference, something to get people laughing and excited for the year ahead as a team, then master of tasks is for you! This wacky, fast paced activity requires teams to take on the unexpected, using their creativity and humour to win points from the hard to impress Master of Tasks!
