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Civil Service Awards 2019 - Week of Winners: Health & Wellbeing Award
The latest in our Week of Winners blog posts looks at the recipients of the Health & Wellbeing Award, the Cross-Government Menopause Working Group.
Health and wellbeing
Reflections on Migraine Awareness Week
Disability Champion Philip Rutnam tells us what he learned during Migraine Awareness Week and introduces Linda, who writes about her experience of living with migraines.
Wellbeing – it's never too late to start
The award-winning Team Chaffinch share some fun and easy ways to take care of your wellbeing, from the new and improved A-Z to Better Wellbeing toolkit.
Tell us what you did in Active Wellbeing Week
Civil Service Health and Wellbeing Champion Jonathan Jones requests your feedback on what worked well for you in Active Wellbeing Week.
The human brain in the modern world
Civil servant Charlotte Kume-Holland offers a personal reflection on how we can understand our own mental health and ways we can take care of it.
Six lessons I've learnt through Team Chaffinch and the Junior Leaders Academy
After two years promoting health and wellbeing in the Civil Service through Team Chaffinch, its outgoing leader, Gail Peck, sets out the six most important things she's learnt.
Personal Disability Stories: 12 – Rosie’s story
Philip Rutnam introduces Rosie's account of living and working with the relatively common but little-known condition of Sensory Processing - or High - Sensitivity.
Talking about loneliness
A new cross-government campaign - launching on 17 June, to coincide with Loneliness Awareness Week - will encourage people to talk about loneliness. The team behind it introduce two colleagues who speak about their own experience.
Becoming ‘carer confident’ in the Civil Service
In Carers Week, Government Chief People Officer Rupert McNeil writes that around half of all civil servants now work in organisations recognised under the Carer Confident scheme.
(Sailing on) the 7Es of wellbeing
What are the '7Es', and how can they contribute to wellbeing at work? Kevin Oliver explains.