Insect hotel building event: a sustainable team activity to help nature!
Fancy a CSR event you can join online? Build insect hotels for your balcony, terrace or garden.
The key facts at a glance
- Ideal for
- Teams of 20–250 people; a sustainable CSR event for people working from home and distributed teams
- Team effect
- Brings together practical teamwork, environmental awareness and species conservation
- Location
- Online (Teams, Zoom, Webex) – materials are delivered to your home by post
- Requirements
- A hammer and screwdriver are needed at home – the kit is supplied
- Special feature
- With a host and a beekeeper – the package includes organic seeds for a bee-friendly meadow
Build real insect hotels with your colleagues
The wooden kits are delivered to your home office beforehand, so they’re waiting for you. Then, over MS Teams or Zoom, you work together to build a near-natural nesting place for beneficial insects. The teamio crew and an experienced beekeeper are with you all the way, and he shares his knowledge of local flora and fauna.
- Planning, organisation and delivery
- Live hosting from a teamio TV studio
- Workshop led by a professional beekeeper
- Conservation package with insect hotel kit
- Can be run anywhere in Europe
How Insect hotel building event works
With this online team event, your company makes a small contribution to regional nature and species conservation. Insects do many important jobs in nature, such as pollinating plants or controlling pests naturally. That helps keep the ecological balance intact. With their different brood chambers, the insect hotels give many species a place to shelter and to get through the winter.
A charismatic live host guides you and your team through the build. Step by step, we make insect hotels together. We use untreated wood and fill the chambers with natural materials only: fir cones, bamboo canes and wood wool. The different compartments appeal to different species, and wild bees, ladybirds, butterflies or lacewings will feel right at home in them.
A local beekeeper shares their expertise, taking you on a brief tour of local plant life. It’s fascinating (did you know, for example, that bees dance to tell each other where to find food?) and great fun too. Speaking of plants: alongside the kits, the conservation packages contain organic seeds. Sown as a flower meadow, pot marigolds, cornflowers, ox-eye daisies and lupins support local biodiversity and, from April, give you something lovely to look at too.
Together for nature. Connected online.
Build together for greater biodiversity
This online event combines practical work with lasting results: together, you carefully build insect hotels by hand, and they’ll later brighten up a balcony, garden or back yard. Afterwards, these little buildings give beneficial insects a new home.
CSR with real impact
With every hotel you build, you and your team make a direct contribution to regional species conservation. The event combines online team building with care for the environment. You can then see the positive effect of your teamwork first-hand.
A journey into the world of plants and wildlife
Our skilled beekeeper takes you into the fascinating world of wild bees, ladybirds and co. He shares his knowledge of biology in an entertaining way that’s guaranteed to stay with you – including fascinating insights into local plants and wildlife.
How was it? Here’s what our clients say
These companies joined our events and created lasting memories. Read what participants say about their experience.
When we decided to run a farm olympics event during our summer party, I was very sceptical about how it would go down with our colleagues. My brief to teamio was to get every last employee excited about the challenge. I wouldn’t have thought it possible, but YOU DID IT!!! The event was a great success: well prepared, brilliantly hosted and delivered on time. The feedback from colleagues was entirely positive. YOU WERE SIMPLY BRILLIANT, and I’m looking forward to our next event with you!
I’ve taken part in several teamio events. The staff are brilliant, work with great passion and provide an entirely positive experience. I can recommend them without reservation.
As the organiser of our internal events, it is a huge relief to be able to leave things in the hands of Amit, Johannes and their team. That way, I know the event will be a success. They plan with care around our wishes and organise everything perfectly, down to the smallest detail. On Saturday, we had our fourth event with teamio and once again everyone was thoroughly impressed.
It isn’t easy to bring together 90 employees from three countries and involve everyone in a way that makes the activities enjoyable. It worked wonderfully: I received nothing but very positive feedback, and we are very grateful for the quick turnaround and perfect delivery of our event.
The support beforehand was really good. Very friendly and reliable. The event itself was a lot of fun too.
I booked a soapbox event and we were all really impressed. You exceeded every expectation. Super creative, a great atmosphere, very professional, friendly and so much fun. From the organisation through to the event itself, the team was very attentive and highly capable. Above all, they managed it despite having to set up and run the event away from their usual base at an unfamiliar venue. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Frequently asked questions about Insect hotel building event
Which platforms can we use besides MS Teams and Zoom?
We can also run the online team event successfully via Google Meet, GoToMeeting or Webex.
Do we need tools at home?
Yes, you’ll need a hammer and a screwdriver to make the insect hotel. Anything else you need, such as sandpaper, comes in the packages.
Can you run the online insect hotel building event in English too?
Of course, we can arrange the event for you in English.
Why is there a beekeeper on the call?
Alongside our hosts, a beekeeper joins the online team event. He shares valuable background information on nature and species conservation and introduces the insect hotels’ potential residents.
Can we paint the insect hotels?
No, we advise against painting them. Insects recognise the smell of varnish and will therefore avoid your insect hotel. Toxic ingredients could also kill the insects and their brood.
What’s in the conservation packages?
The conservation packages we send to participants for the online team event contain a wooden kit and filling materials for the insect hotel, such as fir cones, bamboo canes and wood wool. An organic seed mix is included as well.
When do you send out the packages for the online team event?
Within Germany, we normally send the packages seven days before your event via DHL GoGreen. We send packages to other countries earlier.
Can we track our packages?
Yes. We send them as insured parcels via DHL GoGreen, so they can be tracked.
How long does the online event last?
We shape the insect hotel building event around your ideas, and it lasts between 1.5 and 2 hours.
