Tag: wellbeing

MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS WEEK

We often find ourselves in stressful situations, moments where we feel completely overwhelmed. These experiences are normal and something we come to expect day to day. But some days we can’t cope with these emotions and that’s okay because it’s okay not to be okay. As we are approaching Mental Health Awareness Week, it is…
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MORE THAN JUST A FURRY FRIEND!

After a very long day we can’t wait to get home to our furry friends! Whether they are cats, dogs, rabbits or hamsters their company seems to be the best part of our day. The question of “why?”  isn’t hard to answer but the presence of our loyal companions is far more valuable to our…
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DIET AND NUTRITION … WILL IT EVER GET SIMPLER?

The word diet literally means “the kinds of food that a person, animal, or community habitually eats” but in our society nowadays, diet is usually associated with the way in which people are trying to lose weight. With 63% of all UK adults now being classed as overweight or obese – that’s 35 million people…
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HOW HAS COVID-19 IMPACTED THE HEALTH AND FITNESS SECTOR?

Gyms in the UK opened up again (after what felt like FOREVER!) on 12 April 2021, but how has a year of social distancing and lockdown closures affected the health and fitness sector? Pre COVID-19 Cast your minds back to January 2020, when the world had started to become aware of COVID-19 but the impacts were…
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GETTING THE “INDOORPHINES” FLOWING DURING LOCKDOWN

Since the UK went into lockdown on Monday 23 March 2020, our Sport, Health & Wellbeing PR team have noticed a BOOM in the fitness industry and not in the conventional way. 9.7 million of us Brits were reportedly signed up to health and fitness facilities in Sept 2019 – sounds like a lot doesn’t it….
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PAWDUCTIVITY! HOW HAVING DOGS IN THE WORKPLACE CAN INCREASE PRODUCTIVITY

With increasing numbers of workplaces introducing a dogs allowed policy many studies have now been done to explore the positive wellbeing effects that the presence of dogs in offices can have on the employees. An example of a corporation which allows dogs into their workspaces is Google – coining their office dogs “dooglers.” Mars Petcare…
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SPORTS STAR AND SOCIAL MEDIA SUPERSTAR

Over the weekend the London 2017 Athletic World Championships were all over my telly and all over my twitter! Social media was overwhelmed by #London2017 over the 10 days with everyone joining in on the excitement via social media, as unfortunately not all the million people that applied for tickets to London 2017 were successful….
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