Can 15 minutes a day change your health?

Research suggests that spending as little as 15 minutes a day outdoors in nature can show dramatic effects on your health and wellbeing.

Start today. Leave your mobile phone behind. Put your comfortable shoes on. Take some bread for the ducks, pigeons or seagulls.

Walk amongst the trees or next to the sea.

Take deep breaths. Stop. Let the wind blow over you.  Then, simply sit in nature and allow you mind to settle down.

Stress Awareness Day

The theme for this year is “Employee Wellbeing as a Worthwhile Investment in Your Business”.

The aims of today are to support actions to reduce stress, enhance wellbeing and performance at work.

How can you raise awareness of stress & wellbeing in your workplace?

Ask your organisation to run an employee wellbeing and stress management programme and to sign up to The Workplace Wellbeing Charter .

How to to be a vegan for one day

Today, people all over the world are celebrating World Vegan Day.
The Vegan Society defines veganism as ‘a way of living which seeks to exclude, as far as is possible and practicable, all forms of exploitation of, and cruelty to, animals for food, clothing or any other purpose’.