Someone gave up their time to put a Lunch & Learn together. A quick card from everyone who attended, maybe with a small gift card, shows it didn't go unnoticed, without turning into its own project.
Optional: Pool a bigger thank you with a Group Gift Collection.
Lunch & Learns, brown bags, knowledge shares, whatever your team calls them, they only happen because someone volunteered to prepare and present, usually on top of the day job. A full recognition programme feels like overkill for that; saying nothing feels worse. A card the attendees sign, maybe with a small gift card, is exactly the right size: genuine, quick, and easy to repeat. And it does more than you'd expect, a presenter who felt appreciated is far more likely to come back, and to nudge the next colleague into having a go.
A Lunch & Learn lives or dies on two things: a speaker who feels it was worth the effort, and an audience that keeps coming back.
They spent hours preparing, then stood up and shared it, for no reward beyond goodwill. A card signed by everyone who attended, with a coffee or retailer gift card added, tells them it landed. It's also the quiet reason the next person agrees to present.
Attendance is the other half of the battle. The odd small reward or prize draw for turning up keeps a series feeling worth the diary slot, and because it's all digital, someone joining remotely gets theirs at the very same moment as the room.
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Most Lunch & Learn programmes don't fail on content, they quietly fizzle out. A few small habits keep them alive.
Word gets round when people see effort recognised, and more colleagues put their hand up to present next time.
Set a card up in a couple of minutes so you actually do it after every session, not only the headline ones.
The odd gift card or small prize draw for attendees gives people a reason to keep the slot in the diary.
Build the card ahead of time and schedule it, and set reminders for the recurring session so it never slips.
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Frequently asked
A Lunch & Learn is an informal session, usually over lunch, where someone presents on a topic to colleagues, sharing a skill, an idea or something they know well. They're also called brown bags or knowledge shares, and they run on volunteers giving up their time to present.
The simplest, best-received way is a group card that everyone who attended signs, ideally with a specific line about what they took from the session, paired with a small gift card as a token. It's proportionate to an informal session, and it's quick enough to do every time.
A few things help: pick a topic people actually want, publicise it well in advance, send a reminder the day before, and give people a reason to show up, an appealing subject, lunch, and the occasional small reward or prize draw for attending all nudge turnout in the right direction.
Most series fizzle out rather than fail outright. Thanking every presenter keeps volunteers coming forward, rewarding attendance now and then keeps the room full, and scheduling the thank-you plus setting reminders for the recurring slot stops it slipping when everyone gets busy.
Yes. Everyone signs from the same shared link whether they were in the room or joined remotely, and any gift card is delivered by email, so remote attendees are never left out of saying thanks.
No. Single cards start from £2.00 as a one-off with no subscription, so it's easy to repeat after every session without a formal budget request each time. See our pricing page for current rates.
Yes. Anyone with the link can add their own message, so the card reflects what people actually got out of the session rather than a generic thank you.
Yes. Add a Group Gift Collection alongside the card and attendees can chip in whatever they like, with the total delivered to the presenter as a smart eGift card.
