We will use the funding from the British Safety Council Keep Thriving programme to implement our wellbeing strategy, including skills and resilience training.
Image: McPin Senior Operations Manager Clare Walsby & Stephen Cooke Head of Policy & Communications at the British Safety Council.
We attended a free three-hour workshop earlier this year delivered by British Safety Council’s Being Well Together experts, designed to help small and medium organisations (SMEs) develop a wellbeing strategy.
Six months after attending we, and the other employers, were invited to apply for funding, with only the most effective and innovative proposals receiving approval.
The funding, of up to £10,000, will enable us to implement our wellbeing strategy, including skills and resilience training.
Team training and support
McPin Senior Operations Manager Clare Walsby said: “We are absolutely delighted to have been awarded this funding through Keep Thriving and the British Safety Council.
“It will help us to provide further training and support for our team, improving their wellbeing and skills and – through them – the wellbeing of people with lived experience, alongside our other stakeholders and beyond.”
Extending the range of opportunities for lived experience work
Commenting on the funding award, Mike Robinson, British Safety Council Chief Executive, said:
“In the third sector, we are all aware of how even a modest amount of funding can make a huge difference to charities which may lack the necessary resources for supporting employee wellbeing to a suitable degree.
“McPin showed in their application that it would use this money in imaginative ways, and that they would measure, evaluate and track the impact of their activities carefully, allowing them to expand the range of opportunities they offer to people working from the perspective of lived experience.”
The 12-month funding was awarded to McPin through British Safety Council’s Keep Thriving campaign, which seeks to improve the wellbeing of workers, within and outside of the workplace.
