VitalityHealth
introduces workplace
wellness for SMEs
VitalityHealth is launching Vitality Healthy
Workplace, an affordable workplace
wellness programme for small and medium-
sized enterprises (SME).
Designed to inspire, motivate and
incentivise employees to lead healthier lives,
Vitality HealthyWorkplace covers an SME’s
entire workforce, including those who don’t
have private medical insurance.
Greg Levine, director of corporate and
intermediated business at VitalityHealth,
said: “The programme doesn’t require any
investment by an employer in onsite facilities,
nor does it incur the ongoing running costs
of a bespoke wellness programme. Instead,
businesses can leverage VitalityHealth’s
existing wellness assets that have been
carefully developed over many years.”.
Soft launch for
innovation centre
In October, Plexal hosted an
inaugural Live Connected forum at
its premises in the Queen Elizabeth
Olympic Park, London. More than
1,000 technology advocates
gathered at the space to explore
how technology can improve lives
through connected products. The
largest innovation centre of its
kind in Europe, it is due to open in
spring 2017.
Employee benefits scheme to expand overseas
Perkbox, the employee benefits and perks platform, has launched its first equity crowdfunding
round on the Seedrs platform to fund expansion in the US and Europe.
Launched in January 2015, Perkbox has grown 50% every quarter since launch and already has
over 300,000 paying members, ranging from SMEs to large corporations such as British Gas and BUPA.
The platform empowers managers to reward teams or individuals on their performance with a
range of perks from a bottle of champagne to a mini break for two.
Co-founder and CEO Saurav Chopra said: “The UK market has embraced our mantra that a
happy team equals a more productive team and our first equity raise on Seedrs offers investors and
customers an opportunity to be part of Perkbox’s future success.”
This autumn, environment charity
Hubbub teamed up with Manchester
City Council, high street coffee retailers
and designers to encourage people to
recycle used coffee cups. Currently, less
than 1% of the 2.5 billion paper coffee
cups that are thrown away each year in
the UK are recycled.
The #1MoreShot campaign started
on 12th October and runs for three
months. As part of the initiative, 11
bins in the shape of giant coffee cups
have been placed along Oxford Road in
Manchester to collect 20,000 used paper
cups. The intention is to turn these into
15,000 plastic flower pot holders for use
in community gardens around the city.
Paper cup recycling solution trialled in Manchester
agenda
