Better Health at Work: Journey Enterprises secures Bronze Award

Published by Rhys Taylor-Brown on January 6th 2022, 8:04am

Northeast-based organisation Journey Enterprises has been awarded a Better Health at Work Bronze Award for promoting wellbeing and demonstrating a willingness to explore health issues within the workplace.

Journey Enterprises was handed the Bronze Award for its activities promoting healthy habits, better mental health through the Covid-19 pandemic, and encouraging staff and clients to lead more active lives.

Some of the individuals that Journey works with to provide life and work skills training are living with complex conditions including Down’s, Williams and Prader–Willi syndromes; cerebral palsy; fragile X syndrome; and autism. 50 per cent of its clients in 2021 were recorded as living with Down’s syndrome, a significantly higher ratio than the condition prevalence, which is an indicator of Journey’s sterling reputation within the field.

The Better Health at Work Awards were established as a project unique to the northeast of England to take health and wellbeing into local workplaces, in a bid to do away with longstanding poor life expectancy rates and high long-term sickness and disability figures and shed the region’s label of being an ‘unhealthy’ place to live.

The awards are endorsed and supported by Public Health England and over 400 regional employers now participate in the scheme, with individuals benefiting from increased access to health information and interventions and employers reaping the rewards of improved morale, lower absenteeism, and higher productivity within their workforces.

Bronze is the first of five levels of the Award [Bronze, Silver, Gold, Continuing Excellence and Maintaining Excellence], with organisations participating required to progress systemically up the levels and build up their award portfolio, with a period of one-year per level allotted to demonstrate the required progress.

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