BiU Sustainability and Employee Report 2020

Mental and physical health
We recognised it is important to not just look after our physical health at BiU, but
also our mental health. As a result, in the last 12 months changes have been made
to both areas of BiU to look after our impact on our people.
Gym & Physical Therapy
Cycle 2 Work
Health Assured
Food and Drinks
We subsidised 41 gym
memberships in the last 12
months.
230 memberships in total.
Organised and heavily
subsidised sports and physical
therapy consultation and
massage/treatment sessions.
We’ve always supported a cycling
scheme at BiU, with the summer
of 2020 seeing us upgrade our
provision to accommodate more
choice, better payment options
and more flexibility for our staff.
We’ve facilitated 44 bike
purchases, with 5 in June 2020.
We have inside bike parking at
BiU, and range of changing
facilities including showers.
From helping with finances, to
Covid-19 support, our health
assured scheme is completely
free for staff to use including
easy to access online support
or confidential phone
counselling.
We also have several trained
mental first aiders at BiU.
Following a consultation with
staff we removed a range of
low-quality ‘nibbles’ for better
quality snacks such as nuts and
wider range of fruit to help
support better bodies and
minds. Supported with our
launch of our #OneBiU water
bottles for all staff to keep
hydrated better.
Objective
To continually work with our staff through
consultations to provide the mental and
physical health resources they need
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