Mental Health Awareness Week - Get Higos Moving
Mental Health Awareness Week - Get Higos Moving
At Higos, we understand having good mental health can play a significant part in our daily lives. That’s why, our goal this year is to get "moving more for our mental health" and we certainly have been moving more!
The mental health awareness week was far from a competition, it was not about the numbers, miles or hours that were completed , it was about the activity, getting moving and realising the numerous benefits on our Mental Health and general wellbeing.
Highlights For Mental Health Awareness Week
- We had an impressive 69 members of staff sign up for the challenge and by using Strava were able to see who was moving more during the workday, which will help to start to make that change.
Get Moving Activities
From getting up from the desk at lunchtime for a short walk to open sea swimming, our staff have been maximising the benefits gained from being so active.
- 49 teammates completed an activity ranging from:
- Bell ringing
- Bristol half marathon
- Many dog walks, including a number of visits to the pub
- International activities, Portugal
- Gym sessions
- Dance and fitness workouts
- Cycling to work
- Sea swim
- Coastal walks
- Karate
- Five a side football
The Results
We've had an impressive 280 activities completed, with over 1000 km covered and 300 hours of active time! Here is some of the breath taking scenery from some of these activities.
Higos Mental Health & Wellbeing
We’re committed to understanding our staffs mental health and wellbeing and aim to understand more about the impact mental health has in our workplace. We know the mental health of our staff members has a significant impact on their wellbeing and is vital to their overall health and happiness. That’s why we’re committed to promoting improved wellbeing amongst our staff and raising awareness of our mental health support.
We encourage our staff to help us be aware and improve their mental health and wellbeing by participating in an anonymous mental health and wellbeing survey. We’re also promoting mental health and wellbeing challenges across our offices with the aim of staff to undertake some wellbeing time such as taking walks during lunchbreaks and creating a team gratitude initiative where team mates express gratitude of another teammate within their branch.
We’ve also appointed several Mental Health First Aiders (MHFA) across our branches and provided them with relevant resources to support the mental health and wellbeing of our staff.
The next activity is, the Higos Hike which staff will be participating in on Saturday 22nd June.