Who can take part?
Your away day can be designed for staff and officers only. And it can also include councillors.
Forward-thinking councils understand that good governance depends on more than separate roles and formal meetings. Officers and councillors have different responsibilities, but they still need to understand each other and pull in the same direction.
Including councillors can create greater understanding, stronger relationships and a more joined-up council culture.
Your away day will be designed around what your council needs now.
Choose the right experience for your team
Council Culture works with specialist facilitators to offer a range of team away day experiences.
Each day has a different focus, but they all share the same aim. To help your people feel more connected, more confident and more like one council.
Team Away Days
Council Team Building
One council. Different roles. Shared purpose.
When staff work across different sites, departments and services, it can be difficult to feel part of one organisation.
People know their own team. They understand their own role. But they may have very little connection with the people working elsewhere across the council.
A well-designed team away day creates space to step away from day-to-day pressures and reconnect with the bigger picture.
It helps people understand each other, build stronger working relationships and remember what they are all working towards.
Council Culture team away days are designed specifically for both smaller and larger authority councils. They are created with the senior leadership team for their council.
They are practical, engaging and shaped around the culture, challenges and ambitions of your organisation.
This is not about forced fun or awkward team-building exercises.
It is about creating genuine connection.
Your away day can help your team:
Build stronger relationships across departments and locations
Understand different working styles and strengths
Improve communication and collaboration
Break down silos
Explore shared values and purpose
Create a stronger sense of belonging
Build trust between staff, managers and councillors
Develop a clearer sense of what it means to work as one council
Council Team Building
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Laugh together - Lead together
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Different roles
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Shared purpose
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One council
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Council Team Building ✳︎ Laugh together - Lead together ✳︎ Different roles ✳︎ Shared purpose ✳︎ One council ✳︎
The Story of Our Council
A creative team day exploring how individual voices become one shared story. Every council is made up of people with different roles, experiences, interests and ways of thinking.
The Story of Our Council uses creativity, storytelling and collaborative theatre techniques to help those individual voices come together.
Led by experienced theatre maker Adam Fuller, the group will begin by exploring the personal interests, ideas and experiences that make each person unique. Adam will then guide the team through a creative story-making process. Everyone contributes. Ideas are heard, developed and combined to create something that could not have been made by one person alone.
The process is relaxed, inclusive and fun. No acting or performance experience is needed. The group will then explore how the same principles can strengthen the way they work together.
Through collaboration, communication and validation, the team will consider how they can:
Make space for different voices and perspectives
Build stronger working relationships
Improve communication across roles and departments
Create a greater sense of shared identity
Develop more creative approaches to problem-solving
Help people feel recognised, valued and part of the wider council
The Story of Our Council is particularly valuable for councils with teams working across different services, departments or locations. It can be delivered for staff and officers or adapted to include councillors as part of a wider council team day.
About Adam Fuller
Adam Fuller is the Artistic Director and Co-Founder of Front Room WSM, a fringe theatre venue in Weston-super-Mare.
He has worked as a performer, writer and director on more than 80 professional theatre productions during a career spanning 25 years.
Adam specialises in creating original work through collaboration. He has facilitated creative projects with professional theatre companies, community groups, schools, universities and participants of all ages and levels of experience.
