August 2025
Welcome to the Healthy Working Wales (HWW) newsletter
Our monthly newsletter provides regular updates from the HWW team, including workplace health and wellbeing news and links to upcoming campaigns and events.
This month:
- Healthy travel in the workplace webinar – 17 September 2025
- Peer mentoring: Discovery workshops (September)
- Nature prescription co-production workshop
- Latest insights: The Economic Cost of Poor Health in Wales
- Have your say on workplace recycling
- Success story: Fun Foundations Day Nursery
- Campaign dates for September
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Healthy Travel in the Workplace webinar – 17 September 2025
Join us for an engaging and informative webinar, where we’ll explore how workplaces across Wales can champion healthier, more sustainable ways to travel.
Our expert speaker, Dr Tom Porter, will guide us through:
• What healthy travel is and why it matters in Wales
• The wide-ranging benefits of promoting healthy travel to your workforce
• Easy ways to get your staff involved and motivated
• How to get started or build on progress already made
Date: Wednesday, 17 September 2025
Time: 10:00 – 11:00
Location: Online (link provided on registration)
Peer Mentoring: Discovery Workshops (September)
are inviting employers to help shape the development of our new Peer Mentoring Programme which aims to strengthen employer capacity, confidence and connection in promoting workplace health and wellbeing and is due to launch in late 2025.
These employer workshops form a vital part of the discovery phase, ensuring the programme is co-designed with those who will benefit from and deliver it.
Four workshops will run throughout September to gather employers’ insights, experiences and ideas. Your input will play a key role in designing a programme that meets the needs of workplaces across Wales.
- Three online workshops
- One in-person workshop in North Wales
If you would like more information or to register your interest, please email [email protected].
Nature prescription co-production workshop
Nature prescription co-production workshop
Healthy Working Wales and the RSPB are inviting employers across Wales to take part in a co production workshop on developing nature prescriptions — simple, evidence based ways to support employee wellbeing through time in nature.
If you’d like to get involved, please email [email protected].
You can also explore our new topic page on nature connectedness, which shares practical ideas for creating a workplace more connected to nature — boosting both employee wellbeing and business productivity.
Latest insights: The Economic Cost of Poor Health in Wales
Business News Wales has recently featured an article from Dr. Helen Howson, Director of the Bevan Commission, exploring the urgent economic and societal challenges posed by poor health in Wales, highlighting the important role of prevention and workplace wellbeing in building a healthier, more sustainable future.
The workplace is a powerful setting for preventative health intervention. As a programme, Healthy Working Wales supports employers to take action on health and wellbeing.
We can support you to:
- Drive a cultural shift in how health is approached in the workplace
- Contribute to preparing Wales’ workforce for the demographic and health challenges ahead
- Build resilience, retention and performance through smarter, compassionate investment in health
Find out more about taking action on health and wellbeing
Have your say on workplace recycling
The Welsh Government is consulting on proposed updates to the Workplace Recycling Regulations.
One key change would require workplaces to separately collect small waste electrical items (sWEEE) from April 2026.
The consultation is open until 22 October 2025 — share your views and help shape the rules.
Consultation: Revisions to the Separate Collection of Waste Materials for Recycling.
Do you have an example of good practice in workplace health and wellbeing? We’d love to hear from you!
Sharing your success can inspire others to take action, encourage collaboration and boost performance across workplaces.
Get in touch with us to share your story: [email protected].
This month we are sharing a success story about breastfeeding in the workplace from Fun Foundations who have two nurseries in the Vale of Glamorgan:
As part of their inclusive approach when employees return from maternity leave, they make sure to support breastfeeding in the workplace. This includes discussing individual needs, carrying out risk assessments and providing suitable spaces for employees to express and store milk.
Through working with HWW, they have enhanced their commitment to employee health and wellbeing, including keeping up to date with health campaigns like Breastfeeding Awareness Week.
Campaign dates for September
Here are some key campaigns workplaces may wish to get involved in this September:
Know Your Numbers! week (8-14 September)
Know Your Numbers! Week happens every September and is the UK’s largest campaign dedicated to blood pressure testing and awareness.
Find out more on our Know Your Numbers Week campaign page.
National Fitness Day (24 September)
National Fitness Day is a chance to start small steps toward lasting health for you and your business.
A more active workplace helps employees to stay healthy, happy and motivated and can hold many benefits for employers too.
Find out more on our National Fitness Day campaign page.
Macmillan Coffee Morning (26 September)
The Macmillan Coffee Morning is Macmillan’s biggest fundraising event to support people living with cancer.
Macmillan make it easy to hold a coffee morning at work – you can sign up to be a Coffee Morning host and host a coffee morning whenever suits you and your workplace.
Find out more on our Macmillan Coffee Morning campaign page.
Information and resources about a range of health and wellbeing awareness campaigns can be found on our website.