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The startup that's helping Wellness practitioners and clients to connect - even in isolation Right now is one of the more difficult times in modern history. As COVID-19 drives more and more of us into isolation, the world is adapting; looking for opportunities to come together and carry on. Communities are taking on new shapes, growing in innovative new ways, and reaching out, and this work is ...
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Businesses ill-equipped to support employee mental health according to new survey A new survey from workforce intelligence platform e-days has revealed that half of all companies don’t have the resources to properly support employee mental health. The survey results from over 100 HR leaders found that over 53% of businesses felt they had inadequate resources to support mental health issu...
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Coronavirus is, of course, having a big impact on how many of us keep active. 5-a-side football, OUT. Gyms, OUT. Yoga group sessions, OUT.   But, inspired by how people are giving their time and providing support for people and organisations during the current climate, Sport Tech Hub are adamant that tech products – sport, fitness, wellness and health – can have a huge and i...
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Aimee Louise Carton, the co-founder of mental wellbeing app KeepAppy shares her insight into entrepreneurship and mental health. Would you start a career with the knowledge that 99% of your peers had failed? Or that you would be twice as likely to die by suicide than the average person, twice as likely to be admitted to a psychiatric hospital and three times more likely to develop an abusive...
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Gravity Co-living! The business that's creating a global community of young professionals by offering beautifully designed living spaces with an emphasis on co-living Housing is a difficult subject at the moment. In dense urban areas, it can be near to impossible to find accommodation that strikes a balance between quality and price. A compromise might be to find somewhere to live with others, ...
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Bryony Wylie, Advanced Clinical Practitioner, Prescriber and founder of FooDoo Snacks, share's her predictions for the employee health and well-being trends for 2020, that employee’s will value and want to see in their working environments!  The increasing need for businesses to have an employee health and well-being strategy is set to rise as we head towards 2020. In efforts to t...
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We take a look at yulife, a new InsurTech startup shaking up the life insurance sector and how life insurance coverage is provided to UK companies, with customers earning rewards for healthy activities. Life insurance that inspires life! One way it's doing that is changing the perception of the life insurance industry. The company strongly believes that life insurance doesn't need to be so ...
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Stigma around mental health struggles and burnout is costing the UK economy £1.4bn a year through unexplained sick days, with 40% of employees uncomfortable telling their managers they need to take days off for mental health reasons, research from Breathe reveals. A new report from Breathe, HR software for SMEs, commissioned to coincide with Mental Health Awareness Week 2019 reveals British...
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Tired of empty talk surrounding founder’s mental health, London-based blockchain accelerator StateZero Labs is aiming to drive change. Later this year StateZero Labs will be launching The InvestWell Community – a community of VCs, investors and accelerators determined to create actionable change in the investment ecosystem around workpace and founder wellness and mental health. S...
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KeepAppy, a personal wellness app, designed to empower users to take control of their mental and physical wellbeing, was recently selected to participate in this year’s Launchbox in association with Tangent, Trinity’s Ideas Workspace in Dublin. We took a look... By enabling people to track all of the vitals that most impact an individual’s wellbeing, KeepAppy is a wellness app t...
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