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The fitness app that's not just about physical fitness; GoJoe helps employers to engage, motivate and connect their people across all pillars of wellbeing. Most of us need some help maintaining a fitness programme, whether it’s relying on going to the gym with friends, or a fitness app that gamifies the process, or something our employer sets up for us. Whatever it is that works for us, i...
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Civic Dollars and Upper Springfield Development Trust develop new Innovate UK-funded initiative to improve the health and wellbeing of older people in West Belfast. The good news keeps coming for innovative community currency platform Civic Dollars, whose successful projects in Dublin and Belfast we have previously highlighted. They have now partnered with the Upper Springf...
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Nebel Crowhurst, Chief People Officer at Reward Gateway shares insights on the importance of celebrating employees every day of the year - not just on Employee Appreciation Day. The past few years of prolonged uncertainty and disruption has had a significant impact on employees. It's been a difficult time for many as they navigate rising costs and inflation, with many companies not being in a p...
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From remote, hybrid to in-person teams - Dublin-based startup PepTalk is on a mission to create a work environment where everyone can thrive. We have written a number of times over the last couple of years about how working from home has become vastly more popular since the lockdowns, even after it stopped being necessary. As some employees and companies drift away from total work from home sta...
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Employee wellbeing experts Loopin share some insights on the truth behind your employee's notice of resignation. There are many factors to consider when it comes to staff turnover – but while some may be inevitable, such as retirement, a change in career, or even moving away, others can be controlled. Employee wellbeing experts Loopin have highlighted six of the major factors in th...
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Pact launches its first £30M fund to back early-stage European tech startups using technology for economic inclusion, well-being and climate solutions. Pact has launched its first £30m seed fund to back early-stage startups across Europe using technology to tackle key priorities for the next generation - economic inclusion, personal and professional well-being, and climate solutions...
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Climate tech startup Airly announces series A funding round to support scaling and further development of its innovative air quality monitoring platform. Air pollution is the most-pressing environmental health crisis of our time with approximately nine in 10 people around the world breathing unclean air. Helping to spotlight this existential threat, cleantech startup Airly is today a...
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Thalamos is a healthtech startup enabling healthcare professionals to provide a swifter, simpler and safer experience for those in need of acute mental healthcare. Unfortunately, the number of people in the UK who are being sectioned under the Mental Health Act is on the rise. Being sectioned essentially means being detained and treated for a mental health disorder against your will. This can, ...
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Investment success for PsycApps to help it scale and further develop eQuoo, its innovative mental health platform and game. Good news from PsycApps, the UK-based developer of the evidence-based mental health game for teens and young adults, eQuoo, that we've previously featured here on Startacus. The company has just announced  that it has raised £1.5m in seed funding from US-based M...
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Leading wellbeing training company PUSH Mind and Body, announces new partnership with charity Deafblind UK to help improve life and work for people with hearing and sight loss. Innovative wellbeing company PUSH, which is on a mission to make work better for three million people over three years, have revealed details of its new partnership with Deafblind UK. Its aim is to support the charity&rs...
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