Team challenge · Kielder Forest
A day to bring out the best in your team.
Team challenges of invention, problem-solving and co-ordination, navigating a wilderness against the clock. Test, energise and gel your team, then break down the barriers by the fire.
Why teams come
Adrenalin first. The rest follows.
The Raid is built to motivate a team and forge bonds that last, in a competitive day hard enough to matter. People who rarely speak at work solve problems in the wilderness and lead when their skills call for it, then sit by the fire with something achieved in common. Strangers become colleagues, barriers come down, and a new respect goes home with them.
Challenge
Navigate Kielder terrain to find and overcome a varied set of team challenges. Only a team that can marshal its resources, invent, solve and push on gets round.
Compete
Each team is scored on its performance across the tasks, against the clock. Friendly rivalry, a live leaderboard, everything to play for.
Connect
It ends where it matters: round the fire, drinks in hand, under the largest area of protected night sky in Europe. The stories from the day are the point of the evening.
The day, briefed
From the start line to the fire.
Muster & brief
Teams kit up and get the map and the rules. Nobody is made captain: who leads, and when, is part of the test. The clock has not started yet. Savour it.
Into the forest
Orienteering legs, checkpoints and challenge stations across Kielder. Read the ground, back your call.
The reckoning
Scores in, standings up. Bragging rights decided while the fire gets going.
Celebrate under the stars
Food, drinks and the Hall of Fame ceremony beneath one of Europe’s darkest skies.
Proof
Mud, maps, and the fire after.
Briefing notes
Questions, answered.
How fit do we need to be?
Fit enough for a full day on your feet over forest terrain, but it is about nous and teamwork, not endurance. No hardcore survival, no extremes. Everyone finishes at the fire.
How big can a team be?
We run anything from a single team of six to a full corporate day of forty-plus split into competing squads. Tell us your numbers and we’ll set the format.
What happens if the weather turns?
Kielder does what it likes and the Raid is built for it: proper kit guidance, sheltered stations and a fire waiting. Rain is part of the story.
Is it suitable as a stag or hen?
Yes, as a challenge, not a party. It is a good non-boozy centrepiece, with the celebration saved for the fireside afterwards.
Do we stay the night?
Yes, unless you tell us otherwise. The Raid is built as a day and a night: the forest, the reckoning, then supper, the bar and the beds in the Comb Lodge. A day-only version is possible if you ask, but the fire is half the point.
Enter your team
Put your team on the board.
Tell us your numbers and we’ll come back with dates, format and a quote. Winners earn their place on the Hall of Fame.