From the 5th of June until the 11th it is Bike Week! An annual celebration of cycling, in partnership with Cycling UK! Bike Week's aim is to motivate and encourage more people to put the car keys away and get cycling more often. 

Cycling is a brilliant way to help our bodies and minds stay healthy, it also helps us to get outside and see the beautiful sceneries around us, get active in a low impact way as well as connect with others as cycling is a great group activity!

You can do loads in your workplace to promote bike week as well as help continue the progress for more individuals to cycle to work instead of drive. You can do anything to promote this something as little as putting up posters in your workplace, asking staff to cycle to work instead of drive, to even organising a work event! 

Check out the links below to find out more!

Healthy Eating Week arrives on the 12th of June until the 16th and it is here to help promote and support healthier lifestyles through healthy food, with this years theme being Healthy Eating Week - For Everyone!

The cost of living crisis is still making a significant impact on the affordability of healthier diets for so many of us. With this in mind, it is this years focus to help everyone make healthier choices and have a healthier diet, regardless of these barriers! 

Promoting Healthy Eating Week within your workplace is paramount as whatever you do in work, will reflect at home with your families, children, your friends and the wider community. You can do this in an abundance of ways such as having a healthy food competition, providing cheap and healthy recipe cards for your team as well as using British Nutrition Foundation resources!

Linking in with Healthy Eating Week, why not join us for free at our next webinar?

Our team would like to invite you to take part in an interactive FREE discussion on Eating Healthy and Exercising in the Workplace taking place on Wednesday 12th of July from 10:00am until 11:30am. Our guest speaker for the event is Diane Gavin, a Health Improvement Practitioner from Livewell Southwest.

As part of the webinar, we will also provide an opportunity for you to hear about the latest developments on Wellbeing at Work as well as to network with other businesses and champions.

 It was #SandwichWeek back in May and so the Wellbeing at Work team ensured that their sandwiches were not only delicious but also healthy! 

Eating healthy at work is a brilliant way to keep energy levels up, improve productivity and reduce workplace absenteeism. It has also been suggested the more variety of colour in our meals from different foods, the better our mental health is, as it helps us to boost our happy hormones!

We used a lot of inspiration from the British Nutrition Foundation for this as well as our own resources - check them out below as well as some excellent recipes from our sister programme, One You Plymouth!
 

The Co-op depot in Plymouth took part in Mental Health Awareness week, raising awareness about anxiety and how it can affect individuals. 
With activities throughout the week, Wellbeing Champions at the Co-op helped support their colleagues with mental health resources, safe spaces for opportunities to chat if needed as well as toolkits to support managers and interactive activities for everyone to take part in, to understand anxiety, the signs and how we can support others. 

Read our Blog to find out more!

From June 12th until the 18th Wellbeing at Work will be raising awareness of men's health with the support of the Wellbeing Champions at Babcock!

At the start of 2023, we had an increase of over 50 male Wellbeing Champions join our programme and this is all thanks to Babcock International! This is a celebration in itself, as it is amazing to know that more and more individuals want to spread the wellbeing message from all different areas and backgrounds! We thought, what better way to celebrate this than using Men's Health to spotlight the men from Babcock that have joined our Wellbeing Champion Programme. 

Men's health week is such a vital campaign and topic to have conversations about. It is to raise awareness and encourage more men to speak up about their physical and mental health! For this week, we will share wellbeing initiatives and activities that the Babcock Champions do within their workplace as well as some ideas from our own Wellbeing at Work Team! 

Look out for our social media and website for more! 

The Team at Wellbeing at Work love to get involved with various challenges and wellbeing initiatives. This is to support and motivate our businesses and Wellbeing Champions involved with Wellbeing at Work! 

For May, Shawnie and Charley participated in National Walking Month. This was an enjoyable campaign perfectly timed with the lovely weather we had recently in May - which looks like it may continue into June? Fingers crossed! 

Shawnie used this campaign to walk more for her mental wellbeing. She enjoyed being out in nature, exploring different places and creating memories with her puppy! 
Charley used this campaign as a challenge to move more and do 5K each day!

Well done to both for participating! Both were very lucky to have the sun shining throughout! 

Read our blogs below to find out how Shawnie's Wellbeing Walk turned out and how Charley did with her Walking Challenge! 

In celebration of National Walking Month, not only did the Wellbeing at Work team get involved but the Champions at the Faculty of Science and Engineering at the University of Plymouth let us know that they had some lovely walks around Plymouth's beautiful waterfront, the Hoe and the Barbican! 

We caught up with Emily Bradley, a Wellbeing Champion within the faculty to find out how it went, read our blog to find out more!...

In support of Bike Week we wanted to highlight the many Green Initiatives happening all over Plymouth, including Beryl Bikes! 
Beryl Bikes give us all the opportunity to get around our thriving city without driving and they are also ideal for tackling the really steep hills we have too! With over 100 bikes dotted around the city currently, this would be an excellent tool to get to and from work. 

As well as giving us the peddling power in our day to day lives, commuting to and from work as well as just for enjoyment on an individual level, Businesses can also partner up with Beryl Bikes to extend your efforts in going green! Find out more below

Wellbeing at Work and our Wider Wellbeing Team are taking part in the Big Plymouth Travel Challenge! Why not join us and sign up before June to take part also! 
It's free to take part in and it is open to everyone to boost health and wellbeing this June! 

So leave your car keys at home, get walking, go cycling, run or scoot your way to work and on your other everyday journeys! 

Wellbeing Champions, thank you to those that met with us on the 2nd of May!

We'd like to say a big thank you to Ashleigh Green, Health Improvement Practitioner, for joining us with our Wellbeing Champions to talk about how we can get more active at work.
It was a real pleasure to see everyone virtually and discuss ideas, share what businesses are doing for physical activity as well the campaigns that champions are getting involved with! 

For those that missed the catch up, we have added resources below. 
Our next Wellbeing Champion catch up will be in the Autumn, keep an eye on emails for more details! 

Our MHFA training pricing has been readdressed! 
Instead of our original cost of £120, we have now reduced this to £60! Prices would be further reduced if you as a business or community would be able to provide a venue - £35 to cover for resources. 
If our competitive prices don't sway you, read our latest testimonial on how our MHFA training with our motivational trainers Nita and Warwick have made a positive impact on delegates who are now trained MHFAiders® with 3 years certification and access to ongoing benefits!

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