British Safety Council funding helps support workplace wellbeing

The McPin Foundation attended a free 3-hour workshop earlier this year to help them and other small and medium organisations (SMEs) develop a wellbeing strategy. The workshop was delivered by British Safety Council’s Being Well Together experts and, six months after attending, employers were invited to apply for funding with only the most effective and innovative proposals receiving approval.

The funding, of up to £10,000, will enable The McPin Foundation to implement their wellbeing strategy, including skills and resilience training.

Established in 2007, The McPin Foundation is a specialist mental health research charity, working to ensure research achieves positive change, delivering mental health research and evaluations, supporting and shaping research, and advising on patient and public involvement strategies.

Clare Walsby, senior operations manager at The McPin Foundation said, “We are absolutely delighted to have been awarded this funding through Keep Thriving and the British Safety Council. It will help us to provide further training and support for our team, improving their wellbeing and skills and - through them - the wellbeing of people with lived experience, alongside our other stakeholders and beyond.”

Commenting on the funding award, Mike Robinson, British Safety Council chief executive said, “I am proud that, as a charity, British Safety Council is supporting other charities in this way, and delighted that The McPin Foundation will now benefit. In the third sector, we are all aware of how even a modest amount of funding can make a huge difference to charities which may lack the necessary resources for supporting employee wellbeing to a suitable degree.

“McPin showed in their application that it would use this money in imaginative ways, and that they would measure, evaluate and track the impact of their activities carefully, allowing them to expand the range of opportunities they offer to people working from the perspective of lived experience. British Safety Council is dedicated to making sure no-one is injured or made ill through their work and we are delighted to support McPin in their efforts to ensure the same for their own employees.”

The 12-month funding was awarded to McPin through British Safety Council’s Keep Thriving campaign, which seeks to improve the wellbeing of workers, within and outside of the workplace. This year recipients will also get access to British Safety Council’s Workplace Wellbeing Programme for 12 months. This not only includes a programme of training and available resources, but also access to a support manager.