Congratulations to Louise from Fleggburgh in Norfolk for becoming our second Lockdown Legend! Each week, we are choosing a Lockdown Legend – someone from our app’s user community with an inspiring story of coping during the coronavirus lockdown. It’s tough, choosing a winner from all the stories we receive. But this week we are awarding the Lockdown…
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Two weeks ago we launched four new activities for our app users, to help them stay motivated and engaged during this difficult period. One of those was to answer the question, ‘what have you done today to be kind or connect with others?’ On Monday evening we had our thousandth response to that question alone.…
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Each week, we are choosing a Lockdown Legend – someone from our app’s user community with an inspiring story of coping during the coronavirus lockdown. At the end of its first week, we had our first winner: Kramie Moon. Kramie’s story is a humbling one. It’s a wake-up-call to the pressure our doctors and nurses are under…
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At the end of last week, we launched some new activities for our app users during this extraordinary time. These encouraged acts of kindness, home exercise, new experiences and story sharing. That was on Friday. By Monday morning, more than 700 activities had been recorded already; that figure has now passed 1,300 and continues to climb.…
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The UK Government has introduced strict new measures to ensure as many people as possible stay safe and well during the coronavirus outbreak. The frontline support led by the NHS highlights the true spirit of the nation at this time. We’re all being asked to change our behaviour now, to protect everyone in light of…
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The balance between office and home working will change permanently. The importance of CO2 will become a known reality. The Earth is already healing itself – early reports in Venice of clear canals, visible fish, white swans and even dolphins! Over the next few months, examples like this will be positive items of daily news.…
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Many companies are finding themselves suddenly with a remote workforce. A lot of employees now find themselves working from home – many for the first time – and need support, management and guidance. At a time like this, your company’s employee engagement policy becomes a vital tool in maintaining health, welfare and productivity. Because a…
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We all find ourselves in unprecedented circumstances. In line with the latest Government advice, more and more of us are working from home. For many people this might be the first time, particularly of being home-based for a sustained period of time. For managers it may be a cause for concern – simply because it’s…
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A new report from the thinktank Green Alliance highlights the need for more to be done at a national level to curb demand for transport
The towns of Gjøvik in Norway and Kalmar in Sweden are using BetterPoints’ unique blend of behaviour change incentivisation and gamification to motivate local people to travel more actively and sustainably and help improve air quality. Norway and Sweden are already ahead of the game when it comes to sustainable travel policy and infrastructure. With BetterPoints’…
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