Active & Healthy Workplace Initiative

The Active & Healthy Workplace Initiative is a scheme run by Active Sussex to promote fitness and wellbeing at work.

The scheme provides employers with all the advice and support they need to promote healthy options to their staff, as well as regular events and training opportunities.

In addition, the scheme distributes seed money to local businesses to develop healthy living programmes in the workplace via a small grants scheme.

Benefits of a workplace health programme

There are multiple business benefits to be gained through focusing more attention on employee health and wellbeing, including increased productivity and higher levels of employee morale and retention. Physically active employees take 27% fewer days of sick leave.

Introducing an Active & Healthy Workplace programme can drive down absenteeism and staff turnover, reducing costs of overtime, sick pay and temporary staff cover, as well as recruitment and re-training costs.

Whether you are looking to start a new programme, refresh an existing programme or if you are just looking for more information about where to start and what is available locally get in touch for some free advice.

If your organisation is based in Sussex or has an office in Sussex you can call to arrange a meeting with our Active & Healthy Workplace Consultant, Donna Imrie-Browne.

Sussex Sports Series – corporate tournaments

The Sussex Sports Series is back for 2012, but in a slightly different way. Organisations do not have to enter a team into every event; there will be a series of events taking place all over Sussex, from Hastings to Chichester, throughout the year.

Organisations are invited to attend as many events as possible; there will be a prize for the team who enters the most events and the team who wins the most events.

All the latest forthcoming events will be listed in our events section and on the Active Solutions website.

Some individual sports offer specific solutions for businesses. Check the Useful Documents on this page to download information about those currently operating in Sussex.

Small Grants Scheme

The Active & Healthy Workplace Initiative takes a holistic approach to health and wellbeing in and around the workplace. However there is specific funding associated with the following themes:

Physical Activity
Mental Wellbeing
Healthy Eating

This year we have teamed up with Brighton & Hove’s Healthy City Partnership and set aside a pot of money to allow organisations to bid for up to £500 towards an Active & Healthy Workplace-related programme that will address one or more of the themes above.

Contact Details

The Active & Healthy Workplace Initiative is managed by Donna Imrie-Browne of Active Solutions

Tel: 07545 045 4563

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