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Well worth a watch!

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Active Workplaces Community of Practice: Language, Messaging and Framing

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Slides from the GM Moving presentation on framing by Strategic Lead for Marketing and Comms, Andrew Lawton.

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Active Soles COP - Language Framing  Messaging - Proper Active Slides

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Northern Gas Networks join the Leeds Active Workplaces Network 

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Framing - not burdening workplaces with to much red tape and asks - Talking and influencing around the easy things to do - there's a connectivity piece to do - looping organisations into everything that's already going on. Youtube link to IF Video: https://youtu.be/bjn8_kA2lcE?si=3ebmglEjdW71m-Dl

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Helping you create a healthier, happier workplace This Active Workplace Toolkit from GM Moving has been designed to support Greater Manchester's employers to encourage and enable staff to build movement into their working day to help create happier, healthier workplaces. Physical activity plays a vital role in supporting you and your colleagues with health and [...]

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Helping you create a healthier, happier workplace This Active Workplace Toolkit from GM Moving has been designed to support Greater Manchester's employers to encourage and enable staff to build movement into their working day to help create happier, healthier workplaces. Physical activity plays a vital role in supporting you and your colleagues with health and [...]

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Welcome to our Community of Practice Padlet! 

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Welcome to our Community of Practice Padlet! 

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This is a space for us all to share what we are working on and celebrate successes that promote active workplaces. Feel free to jump in, add your projects, and explore what others are doing!

Here's what you can do:

*Share your work:** Let everyone know what you're tackling to create a more active workplace.

*Give kudos:** See something inspiring? Celebrate it! Let's build each other up.

*Get inspired:** Explore what others are doing and find ideas to spark your own initiatives.

This Padlet is all about collaboration. Let's learn from each other and create a community that thrives on movement!

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Cardiff Met puts best foot forward to join initiative encouraging staff to wear trainers at work

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Cardiff Met puts best foot forward to join initiative encouraging staff to wear trainers at work

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Pro Vice-Chancellor (Student Engagement) Professor Jacqui Boddington and Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research & Enterprise) Professor Sheldon Hanton are among staff swapping their regular shoes for trainers

Organisations across Wales, including Cardiff Met, are giving permission to their employees to swap traditional work shoes for comfortable footwear such as trainers to help boost their physical activity levels.

Active Soles, described as a vibrant movement set to transform the way we work, aims to support teams to be more active by filling their workplaces with energy and motion.

People working in offices are spending up to 75% of their working hours sitting which increases their risk of a variety of health conditions including obesity, type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

Evidence shows that even if you exercise regularly, but spend the majority of the rest of your day sitting down, you can still be at risk of the health problems associated with a sedentary lifestyle.

The public sector leaders involved believe Active Soles can change the culture of workplaces by allowing employees to wear comfortable shoes they can move in more easily.

The team behind Active Soles said:

“What we wear changes the way we think and behave. Wearing comfortable shoes means we are more likely to take build movement into our day by taking those extra steps, opting for the stairs instead of the lift, or arranging walking meetings.”

The first organisations in Wales to get on board with Active Soles in Wales are Actif North Wales, Cardiff and Vale University Health Board, Cardiff Metropolitan University, Cardiff Council, and Vale of Glamorgan Council.

Ben O’Connell, Director of Sport at Cardiff Met, said:

“Active Soles isn’t about setting a daily single target distance, as everyone has different health and fitness needs. Rather, this initiative allows people to incorporate movement during work time, in the attire, like comfortable shoes, that allows this to happen.

“At Cardiff Met, we want to make comfortable footwear and clothing the norm across the university to get staff moving, feeling healthier in their every day.”