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This
edition lists some of the forthcoming national campaigns you could consider
supporting along with local opportunities to get active in and outside of the
workplace to promote to your employees.
You are receiving this email because you either subscribed to our free newsletter or you are a member of the distribution list for the Workplace Wellbeing Charter – Health Champions programme.
For further information please contact Sharon Lindop from the Business Team:
Health Champion Training
13 September 2018 9.30am to 4.30pm
We are working with New Leaf Health to offer this training course which will equip you with all the information you require to plan, deliver and evaluate successful wellbeing campaigns and interventions in your workplace.
The course is primarily aimed at SME sized businesses who are interested or working to towards the new Thrive Workplace Wellbeing Award (previously the Workplace Wellbeing Award).
Places are limited and will be offered to new health champions starting to work towards the Thrive Wellbeing commitment first.
For further details and to book yourself on this workshops please book via Eventbrite.
In partnership with the West Midlands Combined Authority we are now delivering the new Thrive at Work - Workplace Wellbeing Award, the health and wellbeing commitment for employers across the West Midlands. This will continue to be a funded support service for businesses in Coventry.
The new Thrive workplace health and wellbeing awards are the West Midlands standard of good practice and a quality mark for health and wellbeing in work. The awards support employers across the West Midlands to improve the health and wellbeing of their staff, engage and communicate with employees more effectively, and help to achieve a range of business and organisational outcomes.
For further information visit our web page or email sharon.lindop@coventry.gov.uk
Public Health England (PHE) and Business in the
Community (BITC) have co-produced an evidence based toolkit to help
employers support employees affected by domestic abuse and raise awareness on
the issue. In the UK, nearly two million
people experienced domestic abuse in the last year alone. One in four women and
one in six men suffer from domestic abuse in their lifetime, having detrimental
effects on their lives and costing businesses £1.9 billion every year due to
decreased productivity, time off work, lost wages and sick pay.
You can view the Domestic Abuse toolkit here.
PHE has published the Work, worklessness and health: local infographic tool,
which includes a slide set with regional and local level data relating to work,
worklessness and health for each county or unitary authority in England.
 The new Healthy Lifestyles Service is the new Public Health commissioned lifestyle support for Coventry. Working in partnership our team can help arrange for free Workplace NHS health checks for eligible people aged 40-70, smoking cessation support, and wellbeing days. Please contact sharon.lindop@coventry.gov.uk if you interested to find out more.
The service also offers support to individuals thinking about losing weight, giving up smoking, getting more active, cutting down on alcohol or just improving your overall wellbeing. Further information.
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Coventry & Warwickshire Year of Wellbeing
The Year of Wellbeing campaign is looking for
people with a story to tell about something they’ve done to improve health and
wellbeing – for themselves, their team, their customers or their communities.
Our 'champion' story-tellers can be anyone, in any role, at any
level in an organisation or outside of it. Here are just a few ideas to get you thinking:
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Someone who works in a different way and has changed their workplace to
improve health and wellbeing.
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Someone who encourages fitness or healthy eating and actively gets
others involved.
- Someone with lived experience who has used that experience to help
themselves and others feel better.
- Someone who provides health and wellbeing help and support to others
over and above their role.
If you have a story to tell please email Jane Coates at janecoates@warwickshire.gov.uk
 Reading
Well Books on Prescription help you
to understand and manage your health and well-being using helpful non-fiction
reading. The books are all endorsed by health experts, as well as people living with the conditions. You can be recommended a title by a health
professional, or you can visit your local library and take a book out yourself.
Collections include Mental Health, Shelf Help (Mental Health for Young People),
Long Term Conditions and Dementia.
Reading
Well Mood-Boosting Books is a
national promotion of uplifting titles, including novels, poetry and
non-fiction. The books are all recommended by readers and reading groups.
The books are available for
anyone to read from their local library for free.
Find out more about Reading
Well books.
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As summer is here and the holiday period is approaching, this
impacts slightly on the Wellbeing Calendar, as there are less national
awareness days than usual. The NHS have put together a selection of national campaigns and awareness days to help you plan your health and wellbeing strategy and activities for the year ahead. Scroll through their interactive calendar.
Hydration
Why not promote the importance of
staying hydrated to your staff during the summer months. The hydration council provide clear advice on how much we should be drinking.
UV. It All Adds Up
“Anywhere you go UV will damage unprotected skin. And it just keeps adding up.”
We usually think of sunburn as something that happens at the beach. But did you know more of us get sunburnt during day-to-day activities like hanging the washing, weekend BBQs or heading outside to grab lunch?
See sun smart information and resources.
Lets Ride Coventry 5 August 2018
HSBC UK Let’s Ride Coventry (formerly Sky Ride) will take place on Sunday 5 August, when 6 kilometres of city centre roads will be closed to motor traffic to give thousands of locals the perfect opportunity to explore their city on two wheels. Register your place and further details.
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 Cycle to Work Day 15 August 2018
Cycle to Work Day is the UK’s biggest cycle commuting event. Every year since 2012 we’ve seen thousands of enthusiastic riders hit the streets to celebrate everyday cycling. All you need to take part is a bike – new or old – and the desire to ride. You can go solo or be the change your workplace needs and organise an event for you and your colleagues. Whatever you do, however far your ride – have fun! See website.
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Coventry Sports Week
Coventry City Centre will be transformed this summer with a variety of activity zones for a week of sport, physical activities, events and display performances for the whole family.
Sports Week will take place between Tuesday 14 and Saturday 18 August from 10am until 4pm each day in Broadgate. It will feature a wide range of activities designed to encourage more local people to take part in sport and physical activities. Free sessions aimed at children and young people will be led by a range of community organisations and professional sport clubs. Find out more.
Bowls
Business Networking
This is a completely different type of business networking where participants
talk business while playing a casual game of bowls. Absolutely no bowls
experience is necessary and all you need is a pair of flat soled shoes with no
heels e.g. trainers. Basic instruction is provided, then pairs of players have
the opportunity to talk about their business and discover customer/supplier
matches within each other's personal networks. After ten minutes everyone moves
on and starts the conversation again with another player. The outdoor
environment and active participation in a simple game facilitates a very
relaxed opportunity to discuss business. For further information and to book your place contact BowlsBizNet.
Save the Date - Coventry Half Marathon returns for 2019
The run will be held on Sunday 24 March, when around 3,000 people are expected to hit the city’s streets to aim for personal bests and raise tens of thousands of pounds for local charities.
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