LUDUS·

Corporate events built to compete

Corporate events, done different — away days and leagues built around real competition, with the sports-driven edge that gets your people actually turning up.

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“Your people don't need another app. They need something to train for.

The events

Four ways to compete.

Start with a single day or run a season — your company, or against others in your industry. Every one is handicapped so everyone takes part.

Your company · one day

The Away Day

One day out, built as a real competition — handicapped so everyone plays, and nobody's forgotten it by August.

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I
Your company · a league

The Team League

One of your teams across several days, with a running table — something to keep turning up for, not a one-off high.

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II
Against other companies · one day

The Open Day

A bigger day with several companies on the same field. Your people meet their peers at other firms — and try to beat them.

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III
Against other companies · a league

The Championship

The full thing: your company against others, a table that runs all season and ends in a Finals.

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IV

What you can play

Pick the field.

No fixed calendar — any day or league is built from these, mixed and handicapped so a first-timer and a county player both have something to lose.

On court

Padel

Doubles, fast, easy to pick up — the most social way in.

On the road

A race

5k or 10k, chip-timed, a chase start so anyone can win.

On the field

Circuits

Team stations, scored on effort not ego — the one that surprises people.

Old-school

A sports day

Relays, tug of war, the lot. Nobody stays on the sideline.

After dark

Black-tie finals

The competition settled, then dinner and one trophy.

Run a league

See the table.

Any league keeps a live table — your teams against each other, or your company against others. It's the thing they check on a Monday.

Season I · StandingsLive
01Halden & CoP3218
02Northwind StudioP3201
03Meridian PartnersP3187
04Foxglove LabsP3174
05Arden GroupP2152
06QuillfeatherP2138
Example standings
  • Two tables in one. Team-vs-team or company-vs-company, with every individual ranked underneath.
  • It resets every year. Nobody coasts on last season — the drive is always live.
  • Points for turning up. You score by competing, so participation is the game, not a side effect.

The case for it

Why it actually gets used.

You already know sport is good for people. That isn't the argument. The argument is participation — and it's the one thing most wellbeing spend can't buy.

01

They turn up

Because there's a fixture in the diary and teammates who'll notice an empty slot. Accountability plus rivalry beats willpower — which is why people who won't open a meditation app will train for a 10k with their name on it.

02

It builds the team sideways

Competing alongside someone does what a workshop can't. Juniors and directors end up on the same start line, and people who've only met on Teams find out what each other are like when it's hard.

03

You can see whether it worked

We report participation, attendance per event, repeat participation and squad retention across the season — plus a short pulse before and after. Compare that to what your benefits stack can tell you.

04

It gives you something to show

Every event is filmed and cut properly, and the footage is yours — for your careers page, socials and all-hands. Recruitment content that isn't stock photography of people laughing at a laptop.

The case, in numbers

Why the usual spend doesn't land.

10%

of UK employees are engaged at work — half the global average, and flat for years.

Gallup, 2026

3.34%

of employees with an EAP actually contacted it in a year. Most benefits go untouched.

EAPA UK, 2025

44 days

a year lost per employee to presenteeism — against six to absence.

Vitality · IPPR

£280

a head buys a whole year of Ludus — about what one premium away day costs for a single day.

vs £150–300/head/day

Why I'm building this

The method to the madness.

There are two things outside my family that I properly care about: sport and business. This is the first thing I've built that's both.

Sport taught me the things I actually use. Discipline. How to work as a unit. How to control my head when it isn't going my way — which, in business, is most of the time. It makes you think strategically, read a situation, find another way when the first one shuts.

And here's what I believe most: competitive drive is what gets people out of bed in the morning. Even when things aren't going great. Especially then. If there's a match on Saturday and people expecting you, you get up. For a lot of us that isn't a small thing — it's the whole thing.

Most companies now take their people's wellbeing seriously, and they're right to. I just think the best version of it isn't an app or a webinar. It's giving people something to train for, and someone to beat.

— Oliver, founder

Questions

The things people ask first.

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What is Ludus?Ludus runs competitive corporate events — from one-off away days to company-versus-company leagues. Whatever the format, it's built as a real competition and handicapped so everyone takes part.
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How much does it cost?It depends on the format and the numbers — a one-off day is a very different thing from a season. Tell us what you have in mind and we'll come back with a figure, usually the same day.
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What are the options?Four, really: a one-off away day for your company; a league for one of your teams across several days; a larger day against other companies; or a full company-versus-company league that runs a season.
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Do people need to be fit or sporty?No. Every event runs on a handicap — a chase start on a race, ability-mixed teams elsewhere — so a first-timer can beat the ex-athlete. Nobody sits out and nobody is embarrassed.
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What can we actually play?Padel, a 5k or 10k race, circuits, an old-school sports day, or a black-tie finals — mixed and matched into whatever day or league suits your people.
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How do we start?Book a call and tell us what you're after. A one-off day can happen in weeks; a company-versus-company league runs a season, and the first one is forming now.

Get in touch

Tell me what you're after.

A one-off day, a league for your team, or the full company-versus-company season — tell me a bit about your people and what you're trying to do, and I'll come back to you personally, usually the same day.

No deck spam, no drip sequence. One reply from me — privacy.