What corporate teams actually build with us
Most team-building does not survive the journey home. Ours does — because the team leaves with a bamboo bicycle frame they made themselves.
The context
Bamboo Bicycle Club runs facilitated team-building workshops where a group builds real bamboo bicycle frames together in a single session. There is no role-play and no manufactured "challenge." The task is real: measure, mitre, align and bond a frame that has to hold together. That is what makes the collaboration real too.
What we do
Teams work in small groups on a frame each. The build moves through distinct stages — planning the geometry, selecting and measuring tubes, fitting joints, and working carefully through the resin and binding phases. Different stages reward different strengths, so natural roles emerge without anyone being assigned one. People who do not usually work together end the day having made something physical, side by side.
Every workshop is shaped around the group's size, time and goals. Some teams keep their frames; others donate them.
A verified example
When Four Seasons Hotel Hampshire ran a workshop with us in April 2025, a team of senior managers built a bamboo frame together — and chose to donate it to Upcycle in Brixton, a community cycling programme in South London. A half-day corporate event became a finished bike in someone else's hands. That is the model we now offer to companies that want their team day to leave something behind.
Our longest-standing corporate relationship, Investec, began the same way — as a team-building workshop — and grew into a multi-year partnership.
Why it matters
Bamboo Bicycle Club is a social enterprise. Corporate workshops directly help fund our wider mission: teaching bamboo-bike fabrication, including our prison rehabilitation and education programmes. So a company day out with us is also a contribution to that work — without anyone having to pretend it is.
Talk to us
Email james@bamboobicycleclub.org to plan a workshop around your team's size, time and goals.