When we think of El Retiro Park and the Paisaje de la Luz, we picture the green heart of Madrid, the city’s great natural sanctuary (a UNESCO World Heritage Site), and undoubtedly one of the top locations for hosting team building events in Madrid. However, Madrid and its surrounding region also boast unique settings with endless possibilities—from the Sierra de Guadarrama National Park to the historic centres of Segovia or Toledo, through to Alcalá de Henares, La Granja de San Ildefonso, and Aranjuez.

Enjoying teamwork right in the centre of Madrid or in a natural setting—taking part in an engaging activity rooted in sustainable values—is undoubtedly one of the most prominent trends in the corporate events sector in 2022. HR professionals from leading organisations such as Google and KPMG are already preparing for the final stretch of the year with major challenges ahead, training and motivating their workforce through, amongst others, this type of event and workshop.

“The offering of Team Building Events has evolved towards Sustainability. Our company is committed to the 2030 Agenda. We deliver sustainable, carbon-neutral events and workshops that also strengthen core teamwork values,” explain Uno+Uno Team ® The Team Building Co., specialists in Team Building Events in Madrid.

Why choose these services? Increasingly widespread hybrid working models mean colleagues see each other less often and enjoy less day-to-day personal contact. Consequently, many companies organise events and workshops to help.

The Sustainable Development Goal selected for the event was SDG 2 Zero Hunger, with the goal of donating the raised funds to World Central Kitchen, which carries out international relief projects wherever the need arises, with active missions currently in Ukraine, Chile, and since February 6th, most notably in Turkey and Syria, where as of this publication date WCK has already served over 12 million meals. The extraordinary work of NGOs like World Central Kitchen and the growing interest of both small and large companies in sustainable event formats make it possible to transform teamwork into solidarity through international initiatives connecting people, businesses, and NGOs with a shared purpose. The event was also carbon neutral, minimizing CO2 emissions wherever possible—such as utilizing collective transport and reusable materials (paperless)—and offsetting the remainder through tree planting.

El Pardo (Madrid)

Below are some shots of the latest “Bicicletas Solidarias” upon arrival in 2023 to the Nopoki Shelter (Atalaya, Peru), created to help young students from remote underpriviledge native communities with no economic resources to cover their schooling. As Madre Coraje NGO explains, “Bicycles are really necessary and very welcome. The students use them to travel from the Nopoki Shelter to the city where they can go to the library or access the internet. The bikes are also used to move around the crop fields”.

Due, among others, to drug trafficking violence in certain areas of Peru, some foster boys and girls living in shelters and villages such as the Aldea del Niño Junípero are orphans, so their schooling, health care and maintenance depend on the villages and shelters themselves. Sometimes the charity bicycles are also used by young people to distribute the bread baked in the village daily or the crafts and homemade products with which the villages financed themselves. In other cases, foster children spend the school season away from their family in villages or foster homes such as Casa Santa Teresita de Jesús in Puerto Ocopa (Peru) due to the great distance existing between their homes and the nearest school. Likewise, dozens of chqrity bicycles have been donated locally in Madrid, for example to foster boys and girls through the NGO Increfam.