Raising awareness, promoting engagement and fostering resilience is an ongoing and a key part of our culture at Bevan Brittan.
Louise Robling, Elected Board Partner, Wellbeing Lead
Working in law can be a challenging environment and as a firm we want to ensure that we are supporting our colleagues in developing their resilience, putting in place appropriate support channels and resources that everyone can access. We recognise that everyone has their own unique set of personal and professional circumstances, challenges and stresses.
Our Wellbeing Working Group has representation from across the firm and thanks to their drive and enthusiasm, we have an established programme of initiatives, including our informal ‘Coffee With’ scheme pairing up colleagues at random once a month for a catch up held over Zoom.
We are proud of our open culture, where colleagues feel empowered to speak openly about physical and mental health issues and to seek out support when needed.
We have trained 21 colleagues across the firm as Mental Health First Aiders, nominated Partner Wellbeing Champions in each of our offices, and appointed Wellbeing Ambassadors to raise awareness and promote engagement. With colleagues sharing their personal insights and reflections on a variety of topical themes – from living alone during lockdown to prioritising self-care – we are showing that we all have a human side.
Collectively, these are the pillars of our Wellbeing strategy, which we will continue to build on to provide colleagues with an open and supportive environment that allows them to flourish personally and professionally at Bevan Brittan.
Wellbeing activities and initiatives
Time to Talk Day
2024 was our fourth year supporting this initiative with a range of activity. We created dedicated Talk Zones in each of our offices, shared useful content across the business and ensured that our Mental Health First Aiders were available in our Welfare Rooms to talk to colleagues.
Men's Health Week
The 2023 focus of Men’s Health Week was the importance of being physically active and connecting with others. We shared resources on the theme, as well as colleague stories about how they were embracing it.
National Walking Month
We took part in National Walking Month throughout May 2024. More than 100 colleagues signed up to the challenge on Strava and walked, hiked and ran an amazing 6,200km.
BB ‘Coffee With’
This scheme gives colleagues chance to catch up virtually over coffee with colleagues they have never spoken to before. Created as a way to connect our people during the pandemic, it was so popular that we decided to make it a permanent fixture.
World Mental Health Day
To mark World Mental Health Day 2023, colleagues bravely shared their personal experiences with anxiety. We signposted our range of wellbeing resources including our employee assistance programme, Vitality wellbeing events and support, and Headspace app.
