We are proud to announce that we have been recognised for our commitment to staff wellbeing from the Mayor of London. At the start of the year we decided to invest some time and resources into developing a wellbeing policy and to follow the London Healthy Workplace Charter, which covers eight areas including health and safety, mental health, physical activity and healthy eating.
We developed the policy with the help of Shine Workplace Wellbeing and our employees have responded well to the changes we’ve made around the office. These have included offering staff free fruit throughout the week (demand has been very high!), and providing information brochures on topics like stress, mental health, safe drinking, and exercise in our kitchen area. We have also provided equipment in our basement area for staff to partake in exercise activities at lunchtimes. We now have a weekly yoga class led by Varsha!
As well as the official logo confirming we have been awarded the commitment level, we received feedback from the assessors who said they were particularly impressed with many of the things we’ve been doing, including:
- Health and wellbeing on the agenda at weekly management meetings
- Comprehensive and practical approach to health and safety issues
- Involvement with Time to Change project
- Raising awareness about work related stress among managers
- Focus on people looking out for each other and supporting each other
- Strong encouragement for employees to be physically active
The assessors also offered advice for further development of the policy which we intend to heed! We have also been invited to an awards ceremony in November which we will certainly accept!
We were delighted to see that the Wimbledon Guardian wrote a small piece on us gaining the award. You can read it here. For more details on Shine Workplace Wellbeing, please visit their website.