HEALTH & WELLBEING PROGRAMME

THE PROGRAMME ENCOMPASSES THREE CORE ELEMENTS; EMOTIONAL, PHYSICAL AND FINANCIAL WELLBEING

Emotional Wellbeing: listening to and supporting our colleagues to help them meet the emotional demands of everyday life.

Physical Wellbeing: providing our colleagues with practical information and opportunities to support an active and healthy lifestyle in and outside work.

Financial Wellbeing: working with our partners to provide our colleagues with support and information on a range of personal financial matters.

The health and wellbeing of our colleague has never been so relevant and important as it is now. We recognise that we are at different starting points across the Group but we are working to ensure we have consistency no matter where in the business a colleague is based.

The initial launch of the Programme focused on mental health and in an interview our Chief People Officer, Joe Dent talked openly about his own personal mental health challenges. You can watch that interview here:

Mental Health First Aiders:

Keen always to provide practical support where possible, we marked the UK’s National Mental Health Awareness Week in May 2022 by launching our own Mental Health First Aider initiative. After a successful trial across our two Canning sites, we extended the

Menopause, Fertility & Pregnancy Loss:

As we work hard to create an environment where people can open up and trust at some of the most difficult and private times of their personal lives, it is important that we challenge ourselves to ensure our benefits provision is fit for purpose. And although previously addressed by our absence

Family Friendly Policies:

In an effort to meet the needs of a diverse and high-performing workforce we reviewed our family friendly policies – and found them wanting in the UK in comparison to the approach we take across the Group.

Consequently, we have enhanced our maternity, paternity, adoption and shared parental leave benefits offer in recent months.

Universally, our family friendly policies are designed to give our colleagues choice and support – they are aligned with our new SMART working options which include hybrid working, core hours, flexible programme and invited colleagues from across the UK to volunteer to become Mental Health First Aiders (MHFA) – and thanks to an amazing response and the support of Mental Health England we now have 70+ accredited MHFAs ready, willing and able to lend colleagues a listening ear and help them access the professional support available through our EAP. policies it is right that we now have stand-alone policies for menopause, fertility and pregnancy loss – the recent introduction of these policies helps to start what can be difficult conversations and ensures that colleagues can easily access the support (emotional and financial) that is readily available to them. To find out more: working, shift patterns and part-time working. These offers are all designed to help colleagues to better balance their work and personal lives. To find out more:

Testimonial:

From Pat Hickey, MHFA at Long Sutton:

With now more than 100 colleagues volunteering to get actively involved across our 6 pillars of Inclusion & Diversity we are starting to make real progress against our I&D strategy – there really have been some outstanding moments that represent a genuine step-change in the way Princes approaches Inclusion & Diversity