The British Gas Commitment East Midlands Platform 9 th June

The British Gas Commitment

East Midlands Platform

9th June

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Our commitments

• Create a proactive health and wellbeing agenda – Inclusive, creative and engaging

• Develop a corporate Wellbeing partnership – Delivering health assessments

• Support physical activity programme– 10k employees– 10k school children

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Smile – our wellbeing brand

• Created a fresh and engaging brand

– Launched nationally to 27k employees

• Developing multi-discipline approach

– Business engagement through wellbeing champions

• Tailored health and wellbeing improvements plans being built with business units

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Each of the WHO

elements of wellbeing

has an own area

Each location

has a mini site

Calendar of central and

external activities

Opportunity for

feedback

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Corporate Wellbeing partnership

• Partnered with Boots to deliver a health and wellbeing offering for our people

• Launched health assessments in Leicester– 2.5k employees, office based and remote workers– On line health assessments – Face to face consultations for employees with a higher risk of CHD and

CVD– Rolling out to 27k employees in Q3

• Site support and seasonal campaigns to promote health and wellbeing agenda

• Aggregated data providing insight into key health indicators for the first time

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Global Corporate Challenge

• Physical activity programme for 16 weeks, taking a virtual walk around the world!

• 10k employee participants– 47% growth on 2009– Largest UK business

• Independent health study by Lancaster University

• Children’s challenge launched– Colin Jackson as the UK GCC

ambassador – Sponsoring 10k children to complete

the challenge– Linking schools into British Gas sites