CHCP CIC gets moving with global challenge
22 May, 2013
City Health Care Partnership CIC’s staff are taking on this year’s Global Corporate Challenge (GCC), which kicks off on Thursday 23rd May. The challenge is a leading global workplace health and wellbeing programme and boasts results that include improved physical and mental health, enhanced productivity, reduced absenteeism and a stronger culture of resilience.
In May each year, teams of seven from companies all over the world start the GCC 16 week challenge and organisations can enter as many teams as they want. Employees use pedometers to track their daily activity, with the aim being 10,000 steps per day.
The GCC was founded in 2003 and since then has had over 950,000 people participate, from 3,400 organisations, spanning 105 different countries.
Running with the challenge this year is City Health Care Partnership CIC (CHCP CIC), who provide community health and integrated social care services to over half a million people in Hull and the East Riding of Yorkshire.
46 teams have registered from CHCP CIC for the GCC challenge, totalling 322 members of staff. Rebecca Scarr, Health and Wellbeing Advisor at CHCP CIC helped get the company involved with the GCC. “The Global Corporate Challenge is a fantastic initiative,” she said, “and it’s brilliant to see so many members of staff wanting to take part. We are all really looking forward to it and can’t wait to get going.”
CHCP CIC Chief Executive Andrew Burnell is taking part and has said, “I started wearing my pedometer as soon as I got it, and already I’ve been looking at ways to increase the amount of steps I take. Everybody’s trying to do as many steps as possible and with so many teams from CHCP CIC it creates a bit of friendly rivalry.
Health and wellbeing are crucial in maintaining an effective workforce and we want all our staff to be as healthy as they can be. The benefits of regular exercise are well-known and the GCC is a great way to get people thinking about how they can get themselves fitter. I’m really pleased that so many staff have taken up the challenge; I think it’s going to be a really healthy competition!”
