Havens Community Hub awarded Prestigious Gold Wellbeing Award

The Team at Havens Community Hub receiving their prize, From L-R Dawn Norman, Jacqui Flavell and Dave Fensome.

We are proud to announce that Havens Community Hub are the first East Sussex Community business to achieve the prestigious Wellbeing at Work Small Business Gold Award. The award is only awarded to organisations that are able to demonstrate through evidenced based testing, the highest levels of commitments towards employee wellbeing.

As well as working within our own organisation to achieve the rigorous standards required for this accolade, we have been working with other community groups in order to influence their policies and to encourage a focus on employee wellbeing. We are delighted that our focus on looking after our staff, visitors, volunteers and collaborators has been recognised in this way.

Whilst we are proud that we always put our service users first, the process of qualifying for this award has taught us the benefits of refocusing on looking after our own wellbeing, as that gives us more energy and allows us to help people in a more efficient way. Making small changes such as making time to eat away from our desks and making healthier snacks available in our staff kitchen are small achievable steps that have a big impact on wellbeing.

https://wellbeingatwork.eastsussex.gov.uk/accredited-employers/gold-award/