Team building ideas in London for 20 to 30 people, with prices

Twenty to thirty people is the awkward size. Too many for one table in a restaurant, too few for the big-ticket days out that want 50 before they'll quote. It is also the best size for anything hosted, because everyone in the room can still be part of one game. Here is what we run for teams this size in London, with what it costs, and the ideas that cost nothing.

1. A Traitors-style Treachery! session

Hidden traitors, accusations, votes, and a host whose job is to keep the drama high and the mood kind. It is the team-building game that actually tests listening and persuasion, because the whole game is deciding who to believe. 16–30 a session is exactly the size it was built for; a bigger team plays two sessions back to back. Nothing physical, so every ability plays on equal terms.

Costs: from £20 a person, minimum £600 a session, about 50 minutes. Needs: chairs in a circle and a room you can hear each other in. Read how Traitors-style team building works, and when to hire a host.

2. A quiz about your own company

Not a pub quiz. A hosted quiz where the picture round is your office in its first year, Higher or Lower is played on your own numbers, and the room is mixed between rounds so people end the night knowing more of the team than they started with. For 20 to 30 the Quickfire quiz fits in an hour; the Classic is a whole evening.

Costs: Quickfire £650 (60 minutes, one host, up to 40 people); Classic £950 (2 hours, one host, up to 60 people). Needs: the venue's screen and speaker. See make your own quiz.

3. A games night

For the bigger party. The suitcase show: sticker mixing, a blind taste test, a sculpture round, Speed Drawing, Star Turn for the brave. Louder than a quiz, better after dinner, and it works in a function room, a pub or the office with the desks pushed back.

Costs: £12 a person, minimum £950 a night, up to 100 people. For 20 to 30 people the minimum applies, so a quiz or a Treachery! session is usually the better value at this size. See Games Night.

4. Treachery! then dinner

The combination we recommend most for this size: a 50-minute session at 5.30, then dinner at 6.30 with the reveal to argue over. The game does the mixing the seating plan never manages, and nobody has to make a speech.

Free ideas that work in a meeting room

• A picture round about the team. Baby photos, first-day photos, the worst LinkedIn headshot. Ten minutes to make, the round everyone talks about.
• Mix the seating on purpose. Numbered seats drawn from a hat, at every meal. The single most effective thing, and it costs nothing.
• Run Treachery! yourselves. It works for a team of up to about 16 with a confident host; our Traitors-style party game rules have the whole thing round by round. Past 16, hire the host.
• A walking brief. Pairs, a 20-minute walk, one question to answer together, then swap. Cheaper than a workshop and people actually talk.
• Finish at a time. Say when the hosted part ends. People stay longer, not shorter.

How booking works

Send us the date, the headcount and the room, if you have one. We reply within one working day with a quote and a running order. No VAT to add: Get Social is not VAT registered, so the price you see is the whole price. Travel outside London is extra. If it's the Christmas do, our office Christmas party ideas has the seasonal version.