From St Pancras to Shoreditch: The Filter Winter Team Event

As a fully remote agency, the Filter team is spread across the UK and Europe, so when we get the chance to come together in person, we make sure it counts.

Our latest team event brought us to London for a day that had everything: good food, great company, a genuine contribution to the community, and more than a few karaoke moments.

Starting at St Pancras

We kicked things off at The Barrel Vault, the beautiful Wetherspoon pub tucked beneath the vaulted ceilings of St Pancras International. It was absolutely packed for a Friday lunchtime, which gave us the perfect opportunity to put our own work to the test. The Filter team built and maintains the technology behind Wetherspoon’s Order & Pay platform, and being in a busy pub gave us a front-row seat to see it in action. It was brilliant to experience first-hand just how much it handles at peak times.

Cook For Good

After lunch, we made our way to Regents Wharf for an afternoon with Cook For Good, a wonderful organisation that turns corporate team-building into something genuinely meaningful.

We split into teams and got to work on building family meal boxes for local residents and partner charities. That meant chopping 120 onions, 160 peppers, 160 garlic cloves and 80 sticks of celery, assembling the boxes, and writing individual handwritten notes for every recipient. By the end of the afternoon, we had provided 80 families with 480 meals. Not bad for a team of digital people with knives.

It was one of those experiences that sticks with you. The atmosphere in the kitchen was brilliant, the cause felt tangible and immediate, and it was a real reminder of how much a few focused hours can achieve.

Ending the Night in Shoreditch

Finally, we wrapped up the evening at The Blues Kitchen in Shoreditch, where live blues, good drinks, and (for the brave) karaoke rounded out a genuinely brilliant day.

Events like this matter enormously to us. Staying connected as a remote team takes intention and days like this are where real relationships are built. We came away energised, grateful, and already looking forward to the next one.