The Difference Between Corporate Fun Days and Company Fun Days

We look at the key differences between corporate fun days and company fun days, discussing the features and objectives of each event type.

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As an events agency that regularly design, produce and manage both corporate fun days and company fun days, we often get asked what the key differences are in these event types.

Whilst corporate fun days and company fun days sound similar, these events serve different purposes and are structured in their own unique ways.

To highlight the key differences, a corporate fun day is typically designed for employees, with a focus on team-building, workplace bonding and engagement activities.

On the other hand, a company fun day is more of a family-oriented, often festival-style event where employees can bring along their families, creating an enjoyable event for all.

Businesses invest in both of these event types as a way to strengthen teams, boost morale and create a positive workplace culture.

*Company family fun day set up in a car park.*

Benefits of these events include:

Boosting Staff Morale
- These events aim to strengthen relationships between colleagues through a positive, shared experience, ultimately with the aim of creating a positive work environment.

Encouraging Teamwork and Collaboration
- Both of these event types may include activities and challenges where teams may have to work together, helping them develop stronger communication and leadership skills.

Enhancing Company Culture
- Organising either of these events for your employees demonstrate a commitment to employee well-being, reinforcing an company values.

Showing Appreciation
- These events are a great way of rewarding employees, creating an event they can enjoy with their colleagues, friends and families.

*Infographic showing the key benefits of corporate fun days and company fun days.*

Now, let’s get into the key differences between corporate fun days and company fun days.

What Are Corporate Fun Days? (Team-Building Focus)

The aim of corporate fun days is to focus on team-building and workplace engagement, including structured activities designed to improve teamwork, leadership skills and communication between staff and your company as a whole.

These events are usually held on weekdays and are often tied to business goals such as problem-solving, innovation, or employee reward programs.

To highlight the key purposes of a corporate fun day, they aim to foster stronger workplace relationships, encourage collaboration and enhance overall employee engagement.

Corporate sports day employees racing on bounce hoppers. — *Host a fun filled corporate sports day full of nostalgic activities the whole team will love.*

Unlike casual social gatherings, these events focus on developing key workplace skills such as leadership, problem-solving and strategic thinking.

The activities you incorporate into your corporate fun day will have a huge impact on achieving these objectives.

Team Building Activities you may see at Corporate Fun Days include:

Problem-Solving Challenges
- These may include anything from escape rooms and scavenger hunts to puzzle-based tasks to encourage creative thinking and teamwork between employees.

Create a branded escape room for a captivating corporate event." — *Hire custom escape room for your brand activations, team building events and more.*

Outdoor Team Competitions
- You may see Sports Day style activities and competitions such as relay races, tug of war and even obstacle courses to promote collaboration and friendly competition.

Woman competing against other guests in sack race — *Outdoor fun day event with sports day competition.*

Adventure and Survival Challenges
- In keeping with an outdoor event, outdoor adventure activities such as rock climbing, survival training, or raft-building are a great option, giving employees challenges to work on together under pressure.

A man climbs a portable rock climbing wall — *Rock climbing for all ages at your corporate family fun days.*

Creative Team-Building Workshops
- Shared learning experiences are a great way of boosting employee relationships.
- Activities such as cooking classes or art-based workshops encourage creativity and teamwork.

Team engaging with vocal singing sessions — *Learn how to sing in corporate workshop.*

If you’re looking for some unique team building activity ideas to incorporate into your corporate fun day, take a look at our blog on Unique and Unusual Team-Building Ideas for Companies for more ideas.

You can also view of our full catalogue of team building activities below:

View our Team Building Activities.

In summary, a well-organised corporate fun day can lead to higher job satisfaction, improved employee retention and a more engaged workforce.

Find out more about our Corporate Fun Day event services.

What Are Company Fun Days? (Family-Friendly Festival Style)

Although there are many similarities, company fun days have more of a focus on employees and their families, creating a festival-like experience filled with entertainment, funfair rides and live performances.

Ultimately, they are more of a relaxed, social event where companies can show their appreciation to employees by allowing them to share the celebration with their loved ones.

Vibrant mini-festival hire themed corporate fun day event with guests. — *Employees enjoying a vibrant fun day event with bespoke festival theming.*

Family Company Fun day event with elephant prop and guests enjoying the outdoor space in the UK — *Book our transformative corporate fun day experience for themed events such as this festival we created.*

They have more of a focus on enjoyment rather than work, encouraging employees to bring their families along for a day of activities, games and festivities.

Unlike corporate fun days, company fun days are typically held on a weekend to enable employees to bring along their families and are more of an incentive-focussed, social event.

When designed in a festival-style, company fun days become even more immersive, incorporating live entertainment, interactive experiences and a vibrant atmosphere – think open-air stages, street food stalls, themed zones and endless entertainment suitable for all ages!

*Music Stage Appearance entertaining the guests of our Blue Chip Summer Festival event.*

*Blue Chip Summer Festival Glowbot Girls we hired to entertain guests.*

*Blue Chip Summer Festival Event we provided entertainment, props, decorations and full event management services for.*

They still boost team working abilities and communication through creating a shared positive experience, in a relaxed environment where employees can get to know each other better.

Again, the activities you incorporate into your company fun day will have a huge impact on achieving these objectives.

Popular Company Fun Day Activities Include:

Funfair Attractions
- Classic funfair attractions and rides such as bumper cars, Ferris wheels and carousels provide endless excitement for families.

*Full Scale Family fun day Event we put together for Blue Chip featuring fairground attractions, a ferris wheel, festival stage and a range of attractions.*

Live Entertainment
- In keeping with the festival-style atmosphere of a company fun day, live entertainment and stage shows such as magicians, musicians and circus acts are a great way of creating a lively and engaging atmosphere.

Blue Chip Festival Music Stage we created from scratch for our client's summer festival event. — *Blue Chip Festival Music Stage we created from scratch for our client’s summer festival event.*

Food Stalls and Street Vendors
- Typically hosted outdoors, these events lend themself to the festival-style street food stalls and vendors where guests can choose from a variety of food options as they roam the event.

*Blue Chip Summer Festival Catering Van available to hire for outdoor events in the UK.*

Kids’ Zones and Interactive Activities
- As these are more family-focussed events, you’ll need to cater to all ages.
- Incorporate kids’ zones and activities such as face painting, petting zoos and inflatable play areas ensure younger guests are entertained.
- add link to children’s family fun day activities blog once published.

Amazon corporate fun day with wild west theme and props with outdoor activities. — *A corporate fun day rewards employees for their hard work with a fun filled event either just for them or their families too!*

For more ideas on hosting a company fun day, take a look at our corporate fun day case studies.

The Grey Zone: Hybrid Fun Days

As there’s a lot of cross-over between these two event types, some companies opt for hybrid events – events which incorporate the elements of both corporate and company fun days.

These events may include a mix of business-focussed activities, such as keynote speakers and networking sessions, as well as team-building activities and social elements such as live entertainment and food stalls.

*Company Festival we created for Blue Chip.*

Not all corporate fun days are strictly team-building exercises and opting for a hybrid event that incorporate the aspects of both of these event types can prove to be a cost-effective option for companies, creating one larger, all encompassing event, rather than two separate ones.

To provide an example of what this can look like, we’ll take a look at the Summer Festival fun day we created for one of our clients below.

Case Study: Blue Chip Corporate Summer Festival

Combining both corporate fun day and company fun day elements, our the Blue Chip Summer Festival we created for our client demonstrates how this can be achieved!

This festival-style event with team building activities and festival entertainment created an atmosphere where employees could enjoy an event combining both elements.

We transformed a field into a corporate festival with a range of fairground attractions, including a huge Ferris wheel, bumper cars as well as street food stands, live musicians playing and whacky roaming entertainment, including everything from robot stilt walkers to giant bubble artists.

*Blue Chip Festival Glow Girls we hired for our corporate festival event.*

To create a vibrant atmosphere and to enhance the festival styling, we created a range of bespoke hippie themed furniture and props, including a giant elephant, tents and a range of set and stage designs incorporating lighting and AV equipment.

*Custom stage design and build for blue Chip Summer Festival where our bands and musicians performed.*

Elephant decor at a corporate fun day event overlooking festival themed space. — *We can transform your corporate fun day with our bespoke theming.*

The event ran from 6pm until 12am over a weekend, giving attendees enough time to be able to enjoy the authentic festival experience with majestic festival lights and a performance from Scott Mills.

In summary, we incorporated:

A range of bands, solo musicians and DJs including Scott Mills.
We provided bespoke festival-style tents and custom-built festival-themed furniture and props
We created bespoke set and stage designs complete with immersive lighting and AV.
We provided an end-to-end service, designing, producing and managing all aspects of the event.

We’re proud to say the guests had an amazing time enjoying the event with its festival styling, activities and entertainment.

The event incorporated key elements of both event types, creating the perfect hybrid event incorporating team building with a relaxed, entertaining fsetival atmosphere.

See the event for yourself below:

Key Differences at a Glance: Corporate Fun Days vs Company Fun Days

Although there is some overlap in these two event types, there are some key differences to consider when choosing which event you’d like to organise:

Feature	Corporate Fun Days	Company Fun Days
Audience	Typically employees only	Employees and Families
Purpose	Team-building, leadership	Social, employee engagement
Activities	Structured challenges, problem-solving	Festival-style fun, entertainment
Atmosphere	Focussed and professional	Relaxed and social
Timing	Weekdays, work hours	Weekends, public holidays

*Comparison between corporate fun days and company fun days.*

How to Choose the Right Event for Your Company

We hope this has provided some insight into the key differences between corporate fun days and company fun days.

When deciding between a corporate fun day and a company fun day, consider these factors:

Choose a Corporate Fun Day if:
- Your goal is to improve teamwork and collaboration.
- You want a structured event with problem-solving challenges and leadership development.
- Your employees would benefit from professional relationship-building.

Choose a Company Fun Day if:
- You want to show appreciation for employees and their families.
- Your goal is to boost morale and provide social engagement.
- You prefer a festival-style celebration with live entertainment and family-friendly activities.

*Fairground and circus rides set up in a company car park for a corporate family fun day for BHS.*

(Insert Image 4: Employees and families enjoying a festival-style event)

However, if you need one event that combines the elements of both event types, you can opt for a hybrid fun day which achieves the objectives of both events in one experience.

Book a Fun Day With Julia Charles Event Management

Both corporate fun days and company fun days have their unique benefits and objectives.

A well-planned corporate fun day can strengthen teamwork and workplace engagement, whilst a company fun day provides an inclusive, festival-style celebration for employees and their families.

If you need a bit of both in one all encompassing event, such as in the Blue Chip Summer Festival we created, you can do this too.

If you need help organising your next fun, we can help!

As an established events agency with over fifteen years’ experience in the industry, we have the expertise to plan and deliver memorable and engaging fun days to hit your objectives.

Get in contact with a member of the events team today to find out more.

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