Pick of the clicks
We want to support a healthy and happy workforce. We base our staff health and wellbeing offering around our own workplace health guidance and the evidence-based 5 ways to wellbeing. This quarter’s pick of the clicks is designed to help you bring each of the ‘5 ways’ into your daily life.
Be active - which sport are you made for?
Simply answer the 13 quick questions in this BBC sports quiz and they’ll suggest which events from the Commonwealth Games could match your physical and mental abilities.
Sports scientists from Loughborough University devised the quiz. They drew up a list of the physical and mental attributes crucial to success in sport. Then, they rated each sport in the Commonwealth Games against these attributes. For example, gymnastics was rated as needing high levels of agility and power, while weightlifting was rated highly for power but required little agility.
When you answer the quiz, you rate yourself against this same list of categories. Your results are then compared against each sport to find your closest match.
Free Cakes for Kids is open to anyone who cares for cake and their community.
Free Cakes for Kids is open to anyone who cares for cake and their community.
Give - Free Cakes for Kids
Free Cakes for Kids is a community service for families who find it difficult to provide a birthday cake for their child. It’s based on the premise that every child deserves a cake on their birthday. The idea’s simple: Free Cakes for Kids matches amateur volunteer bakers with families in need. Using their skills as bakers, neighbours and good citizens, local volunteers and community groups bake delicious, homemade cakes in their own homes and kitchens. The cakes are then given free of charge to the family. Lovely!
Free Cakes for Kids is open to anyone who cares for cake and their community.
Take notice - Headspace
Headspace is meditation made simple. It’s designed to teach you the life-changing skills of meditation and mindfulness in just a few minutes each day. You can learn to mediate with the free 10-part ‘basics’ course. Animations help you find your feet. The sessions, which come in 3, 5, or 10-minute chunks, are easy to follow, focusing on breathing and scanning through the body to check in on how you feel. There are also bite-sized minis, including a 1-minute breathing exercise, and themed sessions available if you want to add a little more mindfulness to your day.
Headspace's free basics pack is a 10-day beginner's course that guides you through the essentials of meditation and mindfulness.
Headspace's free basics pack is a 10-day beginner's course that guides you through the essentials of meditation and mindfulness.
Headspace's free basics pack is a 10-day beginner's course that guides you through the essentials of meditation and mindfulness.
TED is devoted to spreading ideas, usually in the form of short, powerful talks.
TED is devoted to spreading ideas, usually in the form of short, powerful talks.
Learn - TED
Go online and check out TED for thousands of talks delivered by the world’s leading thinkers and doers. It covers almost all topics – from science, to history, to global issues. ‘The coming crisis in antibiotics’ and ‘The genius of the London Tube map’ were just a couple that caught our eye!
TED is devoted to spreading ideas, usually in the form of short, powerful talks.
Connect - Meetup
Want to join a local book club, head out with others for a Sunday stroll or ‘strike’ up some friendships at the tenpin bowling alley? Meetup is here to help. This online platform helps groups of people with shared interests to plan events and get together. People use Meetup to meet new people, learn new things, find support, get out of their comfort zones, and pursue their passions, together.
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