Wimbledrum Community Drumming
Based in the Wimbledon area, we offer team building sessions tailored to small groups across southwest London. We also host regular community drumming sessions. Join our next community drumming session. Find out about our team building sessions.
Tailored Team Building Events
Even if no-one on your team has ever picked up a drumstick before, Wimbledrum will get everyone drumming together right through the session.Our team building drumming sessions are a fantastic escape from day-to-day work, bringing people together and helping them explore their musical side – even if they don’t believe they have one! We can plan and deliver a tailored drumming session that’s just right for your team or organisation and its culture. Our sessions help to develop collaboration and communication skills through composition, improvisation and musical ensembles. Size doesn’t matter. We can create a session for groups right up to 20 drummers at a time. Just get in touch to discuss what we can do for you.
'drumming has a positive impact on mental health' - Royal College of Music
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Community Group Drumming Sessions
Our community sessions are a very friendly and relaxed way to experience all the benefits of drumming. Never drummed before? Not a problem. We’ll start with the basics and soon have you up and drumming. Each session lasts about two hours, split into two parts.
The first part is our Drum Ensemble. This is high energy group drumming using sticks which blends rock and pop grooves with a little bit of marching band drumming. After a nice tea break we finish the evening with a relaxing and spontaneous free form drum circle using hand drums and percussion.
'The act of drumming contains a therapeutic potential to relax the tense, energize the tired, and soothe the emotionally wounded' - Psychology Today
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'a powerful form of expression and communication, and that the shared experience of drumming in a group facilitated feelings of belonging, acceptance, safety and care' - Royal College of Music
What our clients say about Wimbledrum
Contingent Commander
School Combined Cadet Force
Grant provided an exceptionally fun evening of drumming for Rutlish School Combined Cadet Force (CCF) Cadets and Staff.
A fantastic evening of fun, laughter and achievement for the entire Contingent.
The Squad, Charity
The Squad group of adults with learning disabilities had great fun at our session with Grant from Wimbledrum. He was very patient and made sure every member of the group was included and had a go at drumming whatever their ability. Grant tailored the evening to the group. Would recommend this as a team building activity.
Members, Tooting W.I.
I really really enjoyed it!
A fabulous, fun evening of group drumming. Grant was great at leading us all in our different sections and somehow getting the whole group to create a cohesive percussion track to some rock and disco favourites. Lots of beaming smiles all round.
About Me
Hi. I’m Grant. I've been drumming in one way or another for over 40 years. As you’ll see from the pictures, my drumming experience started with marching bands and moved into rock music. So when, during lockdown, I started thinking about a format for a social drumming group, these felt like the most authentic styles for me to work with. I love the simplicity and the immediacy of drumming. They make it a great way to relax, have fun and bring people together. We've been running community social drumming sessions for a couple of years now, with the aim to hold many more in the years ahead. As well as the successful community drumming events, I also run team building drumming sessions for businesses, schools and other organisations. Sessions are competitively priced, so I can help more and more people to experience the joy of drumming in a group. And if you’re in the non-profit/charity sector, I can even offer accessibly priced sessions too.
'music, the great communicator, use two sticks to make it in the nature' - Red Hot Chili Peppers
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When viewed holistically, communal drumming creates a physical and emotional experience of belonging that addresses one of the core psychological components of depression: feelings of isolation, alienation, invisibility, and worthlessness. Communal drumming offers an opportunity for individuals to wordlessly come back into the fold of the community and physically realize their contributions to the group.