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Proludic Case Study
Off Limits Corporate Events were tasked to plan a celebratory team building event for client Proludic. The company was originally formed ...
Tips For Networking At Your Corporate Event
The idea of networking at your corporate or team building event can be daunting and doesn’t always come naturally to individuals even e...
Why Team Building Is Important During Tough Times
Recent challenging social economic events means employee self-confidence is increasingly becoming affected in the workplace. These potent...
Best Activities For Fun Day Events
Family Fun Days are great outdoor events for clients as you’re able to encompass a large range of fun, competitive and entertaining act...
Venue Of The Month June
Off Limits Corporate Events have scoped some of the finest venues across the UK for your corporate or team building event. We’re deligh...
5 Characteristics Of A Successful Team
The vast majority of professionals expect employees to work in teams and the outcome means a difference between success and failure. Comp...
Off Limits Events Investigate
The Off Limits Corporate Events team recently decided to get involved in an engaging and entertaining afternoon of CSI team building. Aft...
In The Spotlight With June Picken
June Picken is Director of Sales at Coombe Abbey Hotel in Warwickshire and is passionate about the events industry and building solid rel...
Venues Of The Month May
Off Limits Corporate Events have scoped out some of the finest venues across the UK for your corporate or team building event. We’re de...
5 Trending Themed Events
To create an evening event with a lasting impression and one that’s remembered for years to come a themed evening is a great way to imp...
Avoid Multitasking And Become More Productive
Multi-tasking refers to the ability to switch between several tasks simultaneously. The term has become more embedded into our modern wor...
How To Handle Conflict Resolution
In line with stress awareness month this April we’re trying to raise the importance of workplace issues, conflict resolution and the va...
Dealing With Stress In The Workplace
April is stress awareness month and it’s estimated that 440,000 people in the UK have suffered with work related stress in the p...
Sky Quest For Best Case Study
Client Sky requested a team building event that was engaging with plenty of interaction and encouraged problem solving skills. The event ...
CHS SHOW 2017
The CHS Show 2017 kicked off last week. The CHS show started with a big bang on Tuesday as delegates descended onto the First Direct Aren...
5 Quick And Easy Icebreakers
High energy conference icebreakers will get delegates off their seats, prepped and raring to go. Ice breakers are fun, simple ways for de...
Martin Stephens Appointed As New Executive Board Member At The
We’re delighted to announce Off Limits Corporate Events Director Martin Stephens has taken on a new role at the MIA as an executive boa...
Choosing A Venue That Adds Value To Your Event
Are you in need of the perfect venue for your team building or corporate event? Scoping the perfect place will add value to your team bui...
In The Spotlight With Industry Force Emma Cartmell
Emma Cartmell is a force to be reckoned with in the events and hospitality industry. She is CEO at the CHS Group and is currently gearing...
Graduate Challenge Case Study
On 23rd February Off Limits Corporate Events and Robinson College joined forces to roll out the exciting, new Graduate Challenge team bui...
In The Spotlight With Industry Expert Rose McDonald
Rose McDonald is Head of Sales at Robinson College and is passionate about delivering the highest standard of business relationships and ...
Venue Of The Month March
Off Limits Corporate Events have scoped out some of the finest venues across the UK for your corporate or team building event. We’re de...
4 New Team Building Events
Off Limits Corporate Events have an extensive collection of indoor and outdoor team building activities and we’re continually listening...
In The Spotlight With The Events Industry Expert Kevan Holland
Kevan has a talent and passion for supporting developing businesses in the corporate hospitality industry. Kevan was born and bred in hos...
Reasons Why Good Leaders Encourage Creativity And Innovation
Creativity is the capacity to foster, solve problems and exploit new opportunities. A good leader with creative purpose is an individual ...
Top 5 Indoor Team Building Events
Teams that work well together are more effective, productive and generally a lot happier and fun to work with. Don’t want to chance the...
Does Giving Back To The Community Boost Team Morale
We’re seeing a drive in clients requesting team building events which requires employees to ‘give back to the community’. The Gover...
Venue Of The Month
Off Limits Events have scoped out some of the finest venues across the UK for your corporate or team building event. We’re delighted to...
In The Spotlight With Mindfulness Expert Diana Luke
Diana Luke is a mindfulness expert with over 20 years of experience in the field. As well as running mindfulness workshops for large corp...
2017 Events Industry Trends
2017 is likely to be the most interesting and dynamic year for team building trends, with uncertainty and change on the horizon it’s be...
Why Take Your Team Building Event Outdoors
Outdoor team building is a totally different experience from an indoor team building event. It’s a great way to impr...
Practices For Staying Healthy At Work
Employers are continuing to grow their wellness programs in 2017 and actively seeking to promote better health in the ...
Day In The Life Of Logistics
My alarm rings at 6am, after saying goodbye to the twin boys and daughter I’m in the car on the way to the Off Limits Events operations...
5 Activities To Motivate Employees Through The January Blues
Returning to work in January can be pretty tough and finding new ways to inspire and motivate employees can be tricky. It’s the bleak w...
5 Ways To Motivate Employees In The New Year
It’s the New Year and a new beginning for your company. It’s a great opportunity to set the tone in the workplace for the year ahead....
Is Competition Is Healthy In The Workplace
There’s always been a constant debate on whether competition is healthy for workplace culture. Many employers believe it will create a ...
The Greatest Challenges For Employee Engagement
Employee engagement is the buzzword within companies and a topic that often comes up in conversation in the workplace environment. It’s...
Soap Box Derby Case Study
Client Sky UK wanted a team building event that was engaging, creative and incorporated plenty of fun. The event needed to accommodate 30...
Events At The Farncombe Estate
Have you ever wanted to do an employee team building event at an exquisite, traditional English venue? A venue that can provide clients w...
Legal And General Case Study
Client Legal and General requested a team building event that was engaging, varied and also incorporated key team bonding skills such as ...
Guide To Planning The Ideal Christmas Event
Organising the Christmas corporate event is a great way to thank employees for their hard work and an even better way to kick start the N...
Top 6 Venues In London
London is the number one hotspot for conferences and teambuilding events in the UK. The Capital boasts great transport links from all ove...
Reducing Stress Through Mindfulness
According to the Mental Health Foundation 1 in 4 people will experience a mental health problem each year and 1 in 5 people will take the...
Why Its A Knockout Is Still The Most Popular Team
Off Limits Corporate Events is celebrating 50 years of It’s a Knockout this year. Its humour, fun and competitive te...
The Best Of Olympic Team Building Events
The Olympics is a leading international sporting event with many countries around the world competing against each other, which makes it ...
Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles Case Study
IntroductionNottingham-based events provider Off Limits Corporate Events and Volkswagen...
Why Quality Team Building Is The Most Important Investment Youll
Team building is one of the most rewarding investments you can make. It boosts company culture, and leads to measurable improvement in co...
Volkswagen And Off Limits Events Join Forces To Improve Alfreton
Fifteen employees from Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles will join forces with Nottingham-based events c...
Top 5 Racing Team Building Events
The Grand Prix weekend is fast approaching and we have some fantastic racing events to get your adrenaline pumping. These racing events w...
Motivational Health Wheel
Well-being in simple terms means personal happiness, feeling good and living healthily. The motivational wheel infographic highlights the...
Who Comes First The Customer Or The Employee
It’s one of the most difficult questions in business: is it better for companies to focus on making the customer or the employee a prio...
Top Venues In The Midlands
The Midlands is the ideal location for all types of conferences and events due to its accessibility. The region boasts great transport li...
5 Questions You Should Be Asking Your Event Management Company
Selecting an event management company that ticks all the boxes can be difficult. It’s important to choose an event company that meets y...
Leadership Styles Of Euro Football Managers
The wait is finally over - Euro 2016 kicks off this week! The tournament will see 24 nations from across Europe compete for the title. In...
10 Ways To Avoid Burnout In The Workplace
Occupational burnout is often the result of becoming mentally overworked, physically exhausted and psy...
How Ethical Practices Can Add Value To Your Business Model
Company ethics is the practice of encouraging and rewarding fair and moral behaviour in the business environment. It’s important to con...
Robinwood Case Study
Outdoor instructors at Robinwood Activity Centre Ltd requested a fun event that involved inflatables for their yearly staff and family da...
Mindfulness During Mental Health Awareness Week
To raise awareness for Mental Health Awareness Week we’re currently exploring the topic of mindfulness in the workplace. The Mental Hea...
Scape Group Case Study
Scape Group asked us for exciting team building activities for a wide range of ages and abilities. We suggested a few ideas, discovered w...
Top 5 Outdoor Team Building Activities For Summer
The summer is fast approaching and many companies are shifting their attention towards outdoor team building activities. Many of our clie...
5 Tips For Planning An Event On A Short Lead
Planning a corporate event can be stressful at the best of times, but when faced with a short lead time it can become a...
Letter To My Future Self A Year From Now
Dear future me,This year is turning out to be such a whirlwind and so exciting that I thought I’d better write it all down so I ...
Top Leadership Lessons We Can We Can Learn From The
Queen Elizabeth is our longest serving monarch, throughout her 64 years on the throne she’s reigned over 12 prime ministers and embrace...
BOBST Case Study
Bobst wanted something exciting, memorable and meaningful to mark their 125th anniversary. We gave them a bespoke action-packed event tha...
5 Digital Technologies To Transform Your Event
The events sector is constantly innovating and we’ve seen a shift towards digital technologies used as a way of transforming a corporat...
The European Corporate Event Trend
So far in 2016 we’ve seen a continuing trend for businesses booking corporate events in European destinations. Clients are showing ...
Breaking The Unhealthy Meetings And Events Cycle
Conference and meeting planning can be intense and making healthy, positive choices for employees and attendees can prove difficult. Unfo...
Spirax Sarco Case Study
What do you do when a client requests a team building event with outdoor activities in the Cotswolds, at a venue easily accessible for in...
5 Lessons You Should NOT Take From House Of Cards
Good news for everyone who loves a Netflix binge! House Of Cards has returned for a f...
10 Event Theme Ideas For 2016
So you’ve decided to run an event! Now you need to choose a theme that will really engage employees across the business. Here are 1...
5 Ways To Motivate Your Employees
Today is Employee Motivation Day! Here are five simple ways to inspire and ...
What Teambuilding Lessons Can We Learn From Six Nations Rugby
The RBS 6 Nations rugby tournament is back! We’re all excited to see if England can shake...
All About Mindfulness
You’ve probably heard a lot about mindfulness. We’re here to tell you...
5 Events To Excite Your Team
Inspire and motivate your people with some exciting events! Here are five activities that would be perfect for any team. ...
5 Productivity Boosting Breakfasts
Your best work usually happens in the morning, which makes breakfast really important for productivity. It’s National Break...
5 Things We Learned From Clic 2015
Clic+ has quickly become a key conference for event professionals to keep an eye on industry innovation, technology and sustainab...
Teambuilding In Space
In honour of Tim Peake becoming the first official British astronaut to walk in space, Off Limits ...
5 Teambuilding New Year Resolutions For 2016
The New Year is just around the corner! It’s the time when families around the world get together to celebrate and create resolutio...
5 Challenges Won With Teamwork On The Apprentice 2015
This series of The Apprentice has had its fair share of selfishness, with each candidate throwing others under the bus to protec...
The 11 Best Rewards On The Apprentice
There have been some amazing rewards for winning teams on The Apprentice over the last 11 years. Sir Alan has sent candidates across the ...
A Team Building Christmas Wish List
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas, and your team is probably in high spirits! To help celebrate this, and make every coll...
5 Most Disgusting Bush Tucker Trials
So I’m A Celebrity is back again, and we love the show so much we had to make a great team building event out of it! Luckily our ch...
Team Building Review Of Versatile
Versatile have done pretty well so far, winning every week on The Apprentice, except for the DIY Handyman challenge. There’s a lot ...
Team Building Review Of Connexus
Connexus haven’t been doing so well in The Apprentice, losing most of their tasks so far. Whether their failings have been a result...
Team Building The Steve Jobs Way
Former CEO of Apple Steve Jobs inspired a lot of people to think differently. While so many people think of him as the single f...
Christmas Ad Watch 2015
It’s the most wonderful time of the year…again. Halloween is out the way and the festive season doesn’t start until Jo...
Team Building Lessons You Should Take Away From The Apprentice
So you’ve seen a lot of good teamwork on The Apprentice, but there has been a lot of poor judgement as well. Here are some...
9 Business Quotes From Alan Sugar Rated And Slated
Lord Sugar has come up with some great business quotes, and others that didn’t quite hit the mark. Here are 9 of his most popular t...
The Secret Power Of Singing In Teambuilding
We all love a good sing-along from time to time, usually with a stiff drink! Research from the University of Oxford has shown that singin...
The Best Qualities Of A Team Leader On The Apprentice
The Apprentice is back on TV and already we’re seeing the good, bad and ugly of team leadership. According to re...
4 Times Tenacity Nailed Their Challenge As A Team On
Remember The Apprentice last year? Each week saw a well-fought battle between Summit and Tenacity, with victories achieved through great ...
4 Times Summit Nailed Their Challenge As A Team On
Team Summit from last year’s season of The Apprentice pulled off some big victories through great teamwork. We count down four time...
4 Times Endeavour Nailed Their Challenge As A Team On
For those familiar with the 2013 season of The Apprentice, you’ll know Endeavour worked pretty well together as a team. Here are 4 ...
4 Times Evolve Nailed Their Challenge As A Team On
Remember The Apprentice in 2013? It was an interesting season for Evolve team to say the least. After they kicked off the season ...
5 Ways Dancing Solves Problems
“The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing.” James Brown. You can’t argue with the Godfath...
Getting Ready For Christmas
There are mince pies in Co-Op. Thornton’s are stocking advent calendars. To a seasoned event organiser, these are signs that the Ch...
Building Your Own Away Day
Do you remember these old Burger King adverts? From 1974-2002, the fast food giant ran a series of campaigns highlighting ways in which c...
Bringing The X Factor To Your Away Day
The X Factor isn’t just about teary-eyed judges and TV ratings. Behind the sobs and the smiles, there’s a complex machine at...
Best Games For Communication
If there was a list of the ‘top five team building benefits’ (I’m sure there is somewhere), ...
Make Your Own Carnival
The spirit of Carnival descends on the UK every August. Perhaps it’s the extra days off work brought by the two summer Bank Holiday...
Perfectly Partnered Food And Drink
From partnering wild-sourced foods with local beers to creating an after-dinner event that tickles the grey matter as well as the tastebu...
The Hidden Leader
The subtitle I had in mind for this blog was ‘how to lead without being seen as a tyrant’. Be...
Five Brilliant Rounds For Your Quiz Event
Quizzes are the classic evening entertainment, and they can be perfect for a corporate dinner. If you want yours to stand out from the cr...
Hitting The Target
Are goals useful? That’s the question I’m asking this week, as I take a look at the most goal-oriented away day activity on t...
Taking Your Corporate Event Out Of The City
Away days have been moving out of conference centres and seminar rooms lately, so I thought it was time to look at refreshing alternative...
The Fun Factor
Want an instant jump in employee productivity and loyalty? Install a retro arcade machine in your breakout room. Get a pool table. Accord...
How To Build Your Own Corporate Event
Haven’t seen an event package that really captures what you’re trying to say? Building a ...
Making Your Business Communication Better
Effective communication is a powerful tool. It can persuade team members to become followers and consumers to become loyal fans. Like a m...
Getting Technical With Your Event
Are you using technology to power your event? Or are you going to encourage your team to create technologies? There’s more than one...
Top Five Problems Facing Your Team
Productivity Bored of Time and Motion studies? Get your team out of the office and start looking...
Finding The Pot Of Gold
The goal is the key ingredient in all team building and learning exercises. Every corporate training day, every activity, it’s all ...
Five Guaranteed Ways To Thrill Your Employees Into Action
You don’t have to parachute Scarlett Johansson into the boardroom to impress your employees. OK, so that would work, but there&rsqu...
Five Things Your Employees Will Learn On A Driving Day
We all know driving days are insane amounts of fun. But what do your employees actually learn when putting the pedal to the metal? We tho...
Top Five Ways To Motivate Your Employees
Bored of babbling about ROI? Fed up of finding procedural solutions to performance problems? If your business isn’t working the way...
Multi Activity Days More Than Just A Jolly
Cover image: thought we could use one of our own for this, Rage buggies or shooting or something?? Multi-activity days cram a w...
Inspiring Habits Of Famous Thinkers, Leaders And Icons
Inspiration isn’t about sitting in the bath, scratching your head and waiting for that Eureka! moment to strike. Whether ...
Spruce Lodge Gift Vouchers
Christmas shopping is just mental. I am so grateful for online shopping, it has been my savour this year! One of th...
Its A Knockout Barcelona
Up for the craziest corporate event known to man or beast? If the usual team building events don’t do it for ...
2014 Events Its A Knockout V Totally Wiped Out
I can’t believe its 1st December this Sunday! The Christmas countdown has officially begun! B...
Tv Tie In Activities Jungle Experience
Based on ITV’s smash hit show I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here, Jungle Experience is wilder th...
20 Must Have Cheesy Songs At Your Christmas Party
Christmas parties are brilliant! They are the perfect excuse to let loose with your colleagues and celebrate 2013. ...
Top 5 Ice Breaker Activities
Kick off a conference, meeting or team building day with an ice breaker and get the whole group to relax, fast. Gon...
Millionaire By Midnight
We’ve combine some of the nation’s favourite game shows to create you the ultimate evening event. Mill...
Team Building Events That Will Boost Creativity
Creativity in a business is important as it brings out new ideas and opportunities into the company. It allows memb...
My Segway Experience
I recently went on our segways for the first time. Let me tell you, it was definitely an experience like...
Winter Team Building Ideas Wine Tasting
When it comes to winter team building, nothing goes down quite as well as wine tasting. There’s a good reason thi...
Our Event Centre Launch Day Was A Success
Many of you may know that we held a launch event last Thursday at our Off Limits Events Centre in Grantham. Firstly...
12 Corporate Christmas Party Ideas
Traditional Christmas Dinner and Disco Go retro and have...
Off Limits Grantham Events Centre Launch Event
You are cordially invited to Off Limits Events Centre launch event at Belton Woods, Grantham! ...
Autumn Team Building Ideas
Everyone loves a freebie! Get 10% off an even...
What Our Clients Said About Us
When you’ve been given the task of organising a team building day, corporate event or evening entertainment, ...
10 OFF AUTUMN EVENTS
Freebie time! Anyone booking a daytime team building activity will get 10% off an evening event or themed party. Yo...
4x4 Off Road Driving
The cold and drizzly weather can be the ultimate climate for some of our outdoor experiences. With our outdoor driv...
Exciting Evening Events Inquizition
Another team building event, another quiz. Not quite. If you love a good quiz but fancy something a bit more excit...
Ice Breaker Team Building Events
These team building activities will ensure there are no more awkward silences or stilted conversations. If you nee...
Corporate Christmas Party Checklist
Been given the slightly scary task of arranging the corporate Christmas party? This is one occasion where winging i...
Corporate Christmas Party Themes For 2013
It’s that time of year again, folks! Jumpers are out, the nights are drawing in and the next thing to look f...
Tv Inspired Activities Totally Wiped Out
It’s a Knockout ruled teatime telly in the 1980s. Time might have marched on but we still love laughing at a ...
Off Limits Events Centre Spruce Lodge
Off Limits are extremely proud to announce our new partnership with De Vere Belton Woods hotel and leisure resort. ...
Have You Considered A Casino Evening
Make your event, the event of the year! By having a casino evening at your event is a no-brainer. Casino evenings ...
Case Studies Circus Themed Party
Most of the corporate events and themed parties&nb...
Tv Tie In Activities Bake Off
Addicted to BBC2’s Great British Bake Off? Well, now you can make life imitate art with Bake Off, a team buil...
Its A Knockout Team Building Event
Did you know that we own BBC It’s a Knockout along with the entire original it’s a Knockout costumes?&...
Inspirational Indoor Events
Don’t fancy taking your chances with the great British weather? Indoor events an be every bit as entertainin...
Bespoke Treasure Hunts
Our Event Co-Ordinator Chantelle, has recently been given a treasure hunt challenge of her own, and of course, she ...
Tv Tie In Activities: Dragons Lair
Reckon you could do a better job than the budding entrepreneurs and inventors on Dragon’s Den? Well, now&rsqu...
21st Century Corporate Events
Paintballing and clay shooting are classics but what if you want something different for a corporate event? Somethi...
Choosing The Right Venue For Your Event
Find a venue. Book it. How hard can it be? Well, that depends on what you need. Choosing the right venue for your e...
Segway Team Building Events
A twist on the usual motorised activities, Segway team building events require skill, team work, lateral thinking, ...
Tv Tie In Activities: Apprentice Challenge
Ok, we admit it; we’re Apprentice addicts! This series has been the most entertaining yet, largely thanks to ...
Themed Parties Superheroes
A themed party is a simple but surefire way to create a big buzz about your corporate event. A carefully chosen th...
10 Ways To Motivate A Team
Not feeling the required level of enthusiasm from the troops? Below are 10 ways to motivate a team. Although theyâ€...
Most Popular Team Building Activities For 2013
Our top five most popular team building activities for 2013 all involve competition, communication and good old fa...
5 Unusual Team Building Activities
Try one or more of the unusual team building activities featured below if you’re looking for an alternative to paintball, treasure ...
Corporate Events FAQs
We organise hundreds of corporate events every year, for small businesses and multinational companies alike. Altho...