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Telling your mental health story through film May 22, 2020 Over the last few years The Lord Mayor’s Appeal’s This is Me initiative has been encouraging businesses to support employees to share their experiences of mental health at work. This might be an existing mental health issue, a recently diagnosed condition, something exacerbated by work or entirely unrelated. What we do know is that the [...]
The Lord Mayor’s Appeal speaks to Dr Joanna Abeyie on mental health May 21, 2020 The Lord Mayor’s Appeal’s This is Me is committed to changing attitudes around mental health and strives to create healthier and more inclusive workplaces by reducing stigma, dispelling myths, and improving employee wellbeing for good. It helps organisations encourage their employees to open the conversation around mental health by sharing their personal experiences, be of [...]
London comes together to #endthestigma May 20, 2020 Our mental health matters. To amplify the importance of kindness, both to others and to ourselves, and demonstrate a commitment to ending the stigma around mental health, senior leaders from mental health organisations London wide have come together to lend their voice to a common message and offer support and solidarity. In this video they [...]
Why mental health at work matters May 19, 2020 Mental health affects us all. 9 in 10 employees have been touched by mental health challenges, either themselves or a family member, whether this is workplace stress or a significant illness (Accenture, It’s not 1in4; It’s all of us report, 2018). A problem shared is a problem halved – research shows that talking openly about [...]
The Green Ribbon campaign goes online May 18, 2020 Based on a successful campaign by PwC, The Lord Mayor’s Appeal, through This is Me, is running the Green Ribbon campaign for a fourth year to #endthestigma around mental health. We all have mental health and we know that now, more than ever, it is important to look after our wellbeing. In light of Covid-19, [...]
Kindness at the heart of City’s mental health efforts May 18, 2020 Even amid the anxiety and sad stories that have engulfed many of our daily lives, rays of light – acts of kindness that have made the news and that we have ourselves experienced first-hand – have still managed to cut through. It’s no surprise that the links between kindness and mental wellbeing are well-established in [...]
Captain Tom Moore to be honoured with City of London award May 10, 2020 The 100-year-old who captured the nation’s heart Captain Tom Moore will be awarded the Freedom of City of London award next week. Moore has raised more than £33m for the NHS during the coronavirus crisis by doing laps of his backyard on his walking frame. The World War II veteran, who has been tipped by [...]
Why social mobility matters April 23, 2020 London is one of the most diverse cities in the world, yet many people face significant barriers to getting a job or progressing their careers in the City, because of their background. In a bid to create a city that is inclusive and open to everyone, The Lord Mayor’s Appeal’s Power of Inclusion 2020 series [...]
Coronavirus: Oktoberfest cancelled due to pandemic April 21, 2020 Oktoberfest has been cancelled due to fears about the coronavirus outbreak, organisers confirmed today. The historic knees-up is the largest beer festival in the world, attracting roughly 6m visitors to Munich each year. But in a joint statement Bavaria’s minister president Markus Soeder and Munich’s lord mayor Dieter Reiter said the festival would not go [...]
Coronavirus: Decision to cut Tube services caused overcrowding, say transport watchdogs April 20, 2020 A decision made by Sadiq Khan and Transport for London (TfL) to reduce Tube services has caused overcrowding during the coronavirus lockdown, according to the UK’s two largest transport watchdogs. The mayor of London, on numerous occasions, blamed overcrowding on some Tube lines to people using the network unnecessarily at peak times. This caused a [...]