With community team building events businesses can kill two birds with one stone. Why? Because these types of team building events not only unify your workforce and help you identify hidden qualities on your employees, they can also make a difference in your local community or in any community of your choice be it in your own country or abroad.

Such events are specially designed to promote corporate social responsibility, deliver significant benefits to the selected community as well as support your team to bring the best in each individual.

As afore mentioned community team building events generate numerous benefits to your workforce, business and obviously the community.

For businesses alike it provides a helpful solution towards corporate social responsibility by motivating employees in achieving real value tasks, not to mention that these events are great opportunity to enhance brand awareness through PR initiatives. Community team building events are also a powerful tool for team and personal development.

Communities involved can benefit in numerous ways such as driving more attention and exposure to local community problems and projects which in turn could generate further volunteering opportunities, as well as creating an opportunity for community and local businesses to develop a more friendly relationship.

Employees can develop their social awareness by getting involved in real life causes that will really make a difference. Working on these real life situations will also give employees the opportunity to work with colleagues that they haven't worked with in an informal way.

There are numerous community team building events that range from events that help raise money to worthy causes, to events that focus on local action with a global reach and literally help change lives of children in third world countries like India and Ethiopia.

Below you will find a couple of community and charitable team building ideas:

One World, One Team

This event provides a truly unique experience where teams work together in creating, producing, packing and dispatching gift boxes to children in need in developing countries around the world. If you are looking for a team building event that will really make a difference in people's lives this is the event for you.

The Charity Challenge

An event to have fun with a purpose. Teams compete in a series of challenges from balloon modelling to recreating their version of world famous landscapes. After each task is completed teams are awarded with "Charity Chips" which can then be banked and converted into real cash. At the end of the event all the money raised is added onto a presentation cheque and delivered to the selected charity.

It is a good idea to contact the charity first and arrange for a representative to join the event and receive cheque and tell the teams where the money will be used.