Doing Our Bit, the award-winning platform for fitness, health and wellness for NHS and social care staff, is calling on leisure sector businesses and individuals to champion its next stage of growth.
Launched three years ago to support NHS staff during the first 2020 Covid pandemic, Doing Our Bit has recently formed a not-for-profit company, relaunched its platform and created an App for users. Its next goal is to offer in-person sessions at leisure centres and gyms before embarking on a series of activities designed to improve the health of the 1.4 million NHS and social care workers who are responsible for the nation’s wellbeing.
Doing Our Bit is the largest ‘free to participate’ portal providing a blueprint for improved wellbeing of workers across the UK. Created by the NHS for the NHS, its purpose is to provide content, classes and a community. At a time when sickness levels among NHS staff are at an all-time high, Doing Our Bit is focused on driving forwards the Preventative Health movement through free access to physical activity sessions and mental wellbeing resources. To date, 140 healthcare employers have registered with Doing Our Bit giving over 750,000 NHS and Social Care staff access to free wellbeing information and on-demand videos. The updated platform, new App, free in-person activities and community-based activities will combine to engage many more of the NHS and social care workforce. But Doing Our Bit needs support from the leisure sector to scale this and make it a reality.
At the outset in March 2020, three founding partners – Active IQ, fibodo and Study Active – pledged their help to Doing Our Bit’s founder, Julie Davis. Their support, underpinned by Leisure Net since 2022, has enabled Doing Our Bit to evolve and keep pace with people’s changing healthcare needs.
Now registered as a Not-For-Profit organisation, Doing Our Bit Limited is seeking partnership support and sponsorship funds to invest into growing the reach of the platform, introducing dedicated staff and engaging with as many as possible NHS and Social Care staff across the UK.
“The support from the founding partners was phenomenal but just the start of an incredible journey. The pandemic may be behind us now but the need to protect the wellbeing of NHS and social care staff has never been greater. I believe the updated platform, new App, in-person sessions and the formation of a Doing Our Bit community has huge potential to bring about lasting change,” said Julie Davis, founder of Doing Our Bit.
The variety of Doing Our Bit activities will continue to be curated and expanded as the platform develops. On-demand content already includes yoga, HIIT and bodyweight sessions, meditation, dance and Pilates. Doing Our Bit is actively seeking more sessions from more PTs to grow this further and keep things fresh for participants.
