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Wellbeing Matters

Poor wellbeing impacts performance and how valued employees feel. Supporting balance and reducing stress keeps employees engaged and productive.
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Geberit Sales

Strong teams are fostered through shared experiences and collaboration. Team Meetings and Team Building Days provide opportunities for connection, and the ‘Coffee with a Colleague’ initiative strengthens cross-team relationships. The company's Quarterly Sales Conferences also allow teams to celebrate successes and maintain momentum.
Geberit Sales’ annual wellbeing calendar offers proactive health support, including Know Your Numbers and PSA testing, which has led to early life-saving interventions. This is complemented by a movement challenge and trained Mental Health First Aiders who raise awareness, reduce stigma, and provide crucial support for employees.
Geberit Sales’ ‘150 Acts of Kindness’ initiative demonstrates its commitment to social responsibility, encouraging employees to volunteer or fundraise for charity. As a proud patron of CRASH Charity, Geberit Sales matched funds raised, contributing to the impressive total of £13,861 raised, 539 hours volunteered, and 153 acts completed.
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Manufacturing
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Kisimul

Colleagues access fully funded, nationally accredited qualifications and a competency career progression framework. This structured pathway allows Life Practitioners and other operational roles to develop skills at their own pace. By linking these milestones to pay increases, the organisation ensures professional development is both accessible and tangibly rewarded.
The organisation promotes collaboration through leadership days and cross-functional projects. Online communication tools and the intranet facilitate connection across 40 locations. Furthermore, the annual Awards Festival and monthly values awards programme celebrate team achievements, with the Employee Forum selecting winners to ensure fair, peer-led recognition.
The business prioritises health through regular campaigns, covering topics like vaccine education and sleep quality. By auditing night colleagues' specific Wellbeing concerns, the organisation matches resources to actual needs. This targeted approach, alongside their therapeutically informed strategy, supports the physical and emotional health of the entire workforce.
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Health & Social Care
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Mova

Mova’s Wellbeing Forum meets to discuss the current wellbeing climate, concerns, goals and a calendar of events. This year, it has planned drop-ins on financial wellbeing, the menopause, loneliness and caring for people who are unwell. Its Wellbeing Charter includes an hour per week set aside for individuals to do something that supports their wellbeing.
The organisation has created a leadership community who meet informally to talk all things leadership, and as topics for development are identified workshops are set up. This has included Feedback, Setting Objectives, Leaders as Coaches, Growth Mindset and more business as usual topics such as handling bonus awards and pay reviews.
Last year, Mova raised £1000 for charities. Fundraising activities included a Macmillan coffee morning, Save the Children Christmas Jumper day, Movember and Miles for Mind. It also supports a grass roots football team and has extended its charitable giving through a matched funded scheme, where up to the value of £250 will be matched.
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Wanstor

Wanstor fosters personal growth through its fast-track training programmes and mentoring schemes, allowing employees to advance their careers and maximise their potential. The company also offers bonuses for passing beneficial exams, further promoting development.
Wanstor promotes a strong team spirit through initiatives like 'take over days', encouraging employees to socialise and form meaningful connections. Regular team-building events further instil a sense of camaraderie and belonging.
The company prioritises employee wellbeing with initiatives such as Chair Yoga, bike to work week, and Fit Feb. It also advocates for mental health awareness and provide resources like Headspace and Togetherall to support employees' mental wellbeing.
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Business Services
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Marsden Building Society

Through colleague nominations and bi-monthly awards, the organisation celebrates its people. The colleague who wins gets a £100 voucher, 2nd place gets a £50 voucher, with runners up each getting chocolates. All colleagues who have been nominated receive a copy of their nomination, including the detailed comments sent in to support it.
To support employee wellbeing, all colleagues have access to Lifeworks, an online wellbeing platform that offers resources and tools to support wellness and an Employee Assistance Programme which is anonymous, confidential, and available 24/7. The organisation has also introduced an annual leave purchase scheme to enable colleagues to buy five additional days leave per year.
Teams at Marsden Building Society are brought together through a range of activities, including: Halloween treasure hunts around the office, sending photos through once sweets have been found; seed growing competitions; “Rate my plate” competitions where colleagues can send in photos of their food to compare with their peers, and much more.
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Financial Services
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Aspiration Training

Employees at Aspiration Training have access to an Employee Assistance Programme that is available for their whole family to use. Furthermore, all People Managers receive Mental First Aid Training and the organisation also offers Occupational Health support. Discounted fitness related benefits are available for all.
In order to build relationships between team members, Aspiration Training provides an allowance of £75 per person to go towards team building activities of each team’s choice. Moreover, the organisation holds an annual ceremony to celebrate its team members of the year.
Aspiration Training offers a range of growth opportunities to its people. Employees have access to coaching and mentoring programmes with monthly one-to-one feedback and a focus on career aspirations. Employees can also access internal and external training programmes and receive qualifications.
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Education & Training
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South Hampshire College Group

Fareham College is embedded in the local community, supporting the area's economic growth and up-skilling its people. It also works with local charities. This has included inviting a local mental wellbeing charity to support employees' personal development and help the College strengthen its offering and support for students and staff.

Employees have access to a Health Cash Plan, including skin cancer screening, dental check-ups, specialist consultations, discounted gym membership, and money off at cinemas, shops and restaurants. Staff also have free 24/7 access to counselling services. And in early 2023, managers will be trained to support team members through menopause.

Aspiring and existing managers are supported through development training, covering areas such as self-awareness, agility, commercial and financial acumen and operational effectiveness, including becoming great people managers. The College also offers bespoke support for aspiring leaders, including external strategic qualifications, professional courses and conferences.

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Education & Training
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Tommies Childcare

Tommies Childcare supports employees’ wellbeing through its Wellness Action Plan; an individualised plan that outlines symptoms, triggers, and support needed to be put into place for an employee. This is reviewed in line with need and is an opportunity for employees to have a dedicated, non-judgemental discussion with their manager about how they are feeling.
The organisation runs a training programme where employees get to join Directors, Senior Managers and Managers for training tailored to the development of skills applicable to their roles. The training is not only supportive of Child Development but also outlines how employee engagement can be the difference between a good workplace and a great workplace.
Tommies Childcare offers a managerial Leadership and Development programme, delivered through an external organisation. This consists of one-to-one coaching sessions for Managers, leadership discussions, and group exercises.
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Education & Training
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Roadchef

Roadchef cares for its employees’ wellbeing through a number of initiatives, including trained mental health first aiders at every site; an Employee Assistance Programme in place to offer confidential support to all employees; hardship loans; wellbeing messaging and weekly national focus reinforcement through the Roundup newsletter; community pantries; and breakfast clubs.
The organisation offers Extra Responsibility Pay to recognise when individuals step up to cover/support another role. Some ad-hoc bonus payments have been made to reward employees for their contribution and hard work. Employees further have access to Wagestream, providing the ability to draw down on wages earlier, supporting stress and anxiety around finances.
Roadchef has a number of tiers of structured development in place including apprenticeships, the Fastlane Management Development Programme, the Leadership Highway Programme, the High Potential Development Programme, secondments, and ad-hoc Executive Coaching.
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Leisure & Hospitality
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OSB GROUP

OSB Group fosters a sense of pride and belonging among employees through robust internal communications, such as interactive 'Ask the CEO' sessions, ensuring staff feel valued and integral to the organisation’s success.
Employees at OSB Group benefit from tailored development programmes like the Future Supervisors and Managers Programme, which challenges them and enhances their skills, preparing them for potential leadership roles.
OSB Group prioritises employee wellbeing with initiatives such as the Wellness Hub and Menopause Awareness training, which address mental and physical health, promoting a supportive work-life balance.
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Financial Services
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