It was interesting to see the results of a survey by Aviva this week, in which over half of the business leaders surveyed said that staff socials always involved drinking alcohol. This is definitely borne out in my experience from working with employers. No matter what the sector, time spent with colleagues outside of work [...]
The Confederation of British Industry (CBI), one of the UK’s biggest business organisations, held an ‘Employee Health and Absence Conference’ recently. This is a true indicator of the impact that health is now having on businesses and just how important workplace health is. For some companies, a healthy, motivated workforce may just tip the balance [...]
Sheffield and North Derbyshire’s leading estate agent has signed up to the city’s newest healthy initiative! Blundells have become a Healthy Business Champion. The estate agent has already put its new healthy status into practice, sponsoring the forthcoming Theo’s Games, which has been organised by The Children’s Hospital Charity. Ian Appleyard, director at Blundells, said: [...]
Sheffield City Council, in conjunction with NHS Sheffield, offer a great, free service to local businesses to support their employees to stop smoking. Many of our members have already taken advantage of this service. A smoke free workforce, just like an obesity free workforce, brings benefits to productivity and sickness absence levels. Professionals will come [...]
At the Chamber of Commerce we have a group of businesses called the City Centre Business Group, who work on promoting Sheffield City Centre to benefit the economy. Last Tuesday they had a meeting and were given a presentation by the guys responsible for organising this year’s first ever Sheffield Food and Drink Festival. Some of the [...]
I saw Hallam FM last week and they were eager to get on board with Sheffield Let’s Change4Life. I’m delighted to say they agreed to be a Champion for the programme and are already doing lots of things to showcase their healthy intentions. It’s great to have a media partner on board, particularly one that [...]
Big news for Sheffield Forgemasters this week. I don’t mean them securing a £140 million deal to build components for new nuclear power stations, pretty much guaranteeing the future of local manufacturing for the next twenty years. No, they are the latest company to sign up to the Healthy Champion programme and put their name to Sheffield [...]
Specsavers Opticians at Crystal Peaks are the latest company to become a business champion and are committed to the Sheffield Let’s Change4Life programme. At the 2009 Sheffield Chamber of Commerce Business awards the practice scooped the NHS Sheffield Healthy Business award, so they were perfect candidates to be a champion. Specsavers at Crystal Peaks have [...]
Our business champion programme is now really getting underway. I’ve met with a company called Outokumpu a couple of times and they’ve agreed to get behind Sheffield Let’s Change4Life in a big way. ‘Outokumpu Stainless Ltd’ is part of the international Outokumpu group, with over 7,500 employees, and they have a big base in Sheffield. [...]
I’ve been inspired by the fantastic Community Health Champion programme and am currently doing the rounds of some of Sheffield’s biggest companies in order to get them to champion Sheffield Let’s Change4Life. If I’m going to make any sort of impact in the business community its essential to get big brands attached to it. In [...]
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