Home Run by Hubbub

HOME RUN Hubbub’s one-day employee engagement activity that brings remote teams together to have fun, learn new skills and make a difference to the environment.

Challenge your employees to green their home-office in just one day

How so?

Employees will be sent on a race around their home to green their ‘home-office’.

Held via video conference, ‘players’ will compete to complete a range of on-the-spot eco challenges that will help them pick up useful skills and adopt green behaviour to reduce their personal carbon footprint at home.

Employees will also get stuck into ice-breakers, a plant-based cook-along, breakout discussions, juicy stats, pledge-making and problem-solving. There’s no time to waste and we’re here to uncloak some absolute carbon heroes!

Improve wellbeing

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Save money

Divert waste from landfill

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Consume less energy

Boost creativity

Save time

Improve biodiversity

Cut food waste

Get educated

Reduce your environmental impact

Celebrate your impact The cumulative environmental impact of the completed challenges is tracked throughout the day and celebrated at the end with an impact infographic.

It’s also an opportunity to make a noise on social media with things like LinkedIn participation badges handed out on completion.

The context The social and environmental impacts of homeworking.

Research carried out in July 2020* estimated that UK firms could face a ‘black hole’ of 470,000 tonnes of carbon this year due to unaccounted energy use incurred by employees at home, potentially undermining the UK’s long-term net zero emissions ambition. So, no wonder environmental sustainability has joined employee wellbeing at the top of the corporate agenda!

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50% of employees want their employer to do more to tackle the environmental impact of working from home.

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Only 1 in 5 are getting support from employers to work and live more sustainably at home.

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61% agreed they would like to help reduce the environmental impact of working from home.

2021 Hubbub polling set out to understand how far should employers go to support their employees to work more sustainably from home. We discovered that employees want to almost double the time they work from home compared to life before COVID-19 and over half of the people polled noticed an increase in use and costs for gas and electricity.

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Only 28% said their employer has communicated the organisation’s sustainability strategy to them and how they can play a role.

We wrote a blog post about it all here!

* Research by UK energy supplier Bulb in partnership with EcoAct

Home Run has been designed to tackle two things:

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The environmental impacts of increased homeworking: employers can encourage their employees to take an active role in helping them reach their sustainability goals.

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Employee isolation: employers are looking for ways to build team spirit, connectedness, motivation, performance and engagement

Through some healthy competition and whole lot of fun, Home Run boosts morale and teaches new sustainability habits/skills that will transfer between home and office, helping your people nail home working whilst benefitting the society as a whole. Small actions, big impact.

Case Study: KPMG “

Home Run is yet another example of Hubbub leading from the front around environmental behaviour change.

Thinking proactively and with great innovation, Home Run and their other campaigns provide organisations, employees and individuals with practical, clear and easy to implement positive actions to reduce their environmental impact.

They impressively manage to introduce themes of fun and enjoyment when tackling topics and crises of intimidating magnitude, empowering participants to play their part, and identify the most environmentally conscious option as the most desirable option.

- Ciarán Tragheim, CSR at KPMG

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Participant experiences “I thought the interactivity of the sessions worked very well.

It wasn’t just passive listening - it was active involvement (which is hard virtually but done really well!)”

“Was amazing, good insight & stress buster, the cooking session was a definitely a plus.”

“I have turned my boiler down and am definitely going to think twice about purchasing clothes, do I really need them?

Probably not!”

“I love these meetings with likeminded colleagues I would otherwise never meet.”

“The content was excellent, really liked how interactive the sessions were with everyone sharing experiences and tips, also good amount of break time to digest and reboot the brain”

“There was so much relevant advice, I certainly look at plant-based meals differently as something achievable. Lots of tangible ideas and advice on reducing waste/ decreasing our environmental impact and useful discussion with colleagues.”

On your marks...

Get the ball rolling Get in touch with us and choose a date

Community The big day Hubbub delivers Home Run

Recruitment Drive sign up and motivate employees to get involved

Foster a sense of community and connectedness via the sharing of experience, support and purpose

Impact Collective impact measured and evaluated. Impact infographic designed

by Hubbub

Celebrating success Lead up Send out Hubbub pre-event material

Employee success will be showcased and celebrated in the context of contributing to your sustainability goals

Get set...

Plant-based cook-alongs

Breakout discussions

Food

Learn sustainable food hacks

Mini expert talks

Energy Time to dial down and save on bills

Employees will take on four challenges

...and also enjoy

Clothing Audit your wardrobe

Waste Reduce, reuse, recycle

Ice-breakers

Pledge making

Networking

Go!

How many people can take part?

15 or more

How much does it cost? £90 a head

100% of profits go to the Hubbub Foundation

Hello from Hubbub Launched in 2014, Hubbub is an award-winning charity that inspires ways of living that are good for the environment. We design creative campaigns that raise awareness, nudge behaviours and shape systems. Hubbub empowers the mainstream to take environmental action through positive language, good design and by tapping into things people are passionate about such as food, fashion, travel and their homes and neighbourhoods.

We do this with knowledge and playfulness and we won’t make you feel bad. We’ve been awarded Charity of the Year at The Charity Time Awards’ in 2020 for our work.

We’ve been busy...

Building collaborations with 1,241 organisations, from international businesses to local authorities and community groups.

Leaving lasting legacies. We’ve worked with international brands to co-design and embed environmental initiatives into their business, because it’s good for business.

Celebrating achievements. We’ve been awarded Charity of the Year 2020 by Charity Times and over the past six years have secured over 25 independently judged awards for the quality of our campaigns.

Creating an impact. We’ve inspired 20 million people to think differently about a topic, engaged 675,803 people to take action and have transformed the lifestyles of 2,841 people.

Thank you natasha@hubbub.org.uk