Healthy Workplaces in Wimbledon
Wimbledon businesses work hard in today’s climate to provide a strong offer to attract employees. Wimbledon has a number of employers who have proven themselves to be strong employers through their awards and recognition in The Sunday Times Top 100 small businesses to work for, A Great Place to Work UK, Top 10 Inclusive Employer and the Merton Best Business Awards. These award-winning and engaged businesses include:
Harnham being awarded winners of the ‘Healthy Workplace’ category at Merton Best Business Awards 2018
Workplace Wellbeing
You don’t have to be an award-winning business to participate in creating a healthy workplace. Many of our BID businesses engage in initiatives including Mental Health Awareness Week, Employee Wellbeing, Menopause at Work and other national campaigns. Others offer staff initiatives such as gym memberships, yoga, pilates and meditation classes, Mental Health First Aiders, Long-Wednesday lunches as well as providing fresh fruit for staff on a weekly basis. BID businesses demonstrating strong engagement in these areas include:
- CIPD
- Capsticks
- Close Brothers
- Morrisons Solicitors
- Domestic & General
- SoftwareONE
- Say Communications
Benefits to You
By working closely with Merton Chamber of Commerce, we are able to provide reduced rate training, workshops and networking opportunities for staff. Love Wimbledon also provides the employee only Privilege card for all your employees offering reduced rates and discounts at around 50 businesses.
LOVE WIMBLEDON PRIVILEGE CARD
Promote your business to over 5,000 Privilege Card holders and encourage your staff to apply for theirs. It’s free and offers them exclusive discounts from businesses all over town.
Sustainability
We also encourage businesses to think about their environmental impact, by increasing their recycling, reducing their use of single-use plastics and defining other green policies that are appropriate to their company, such as employing local staff. We work in partnership with Sustainable Merton and Healthy Dialogues who offer a selection of consultancy services empowering businesses to champion sustainable health and wellbeing. Follow our Events page to see upcoming workshops, training and networking events on these topics.
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
Linking businesses to charities and local causes also provides a positive initiative that is proven to improve staff retention and by providing introductions and promoting local charities ourselves we can assist the business community to celebrate it’s contribution to the local community. See the list of local charities within the BID area. If you would like more information or to be introduced to one of these charities please contact info@lovewimbledon.org or call 020 8619 2012.
Local businesses Capsticks, Boux Avenue and Robert Dyas all donated to Wimbledon Food Bank, Christmas 2018.
AWARD WINNING BUSINESSES
There are valuable opportunities for Wimbledon businesses to be awarded and promote their business in various categories in ‘The Merton Best Business Awards’ and ‘The Time & Leisure Food and Culture Awards’. These profile generating awards are supported by Love Wimbledon to help our businesses get recognised.
