Mental Health Awareness Week 2023 – Business toolkit

When your employees feel good inside, they’re much more likely to perform better and take less time off work.

Mental Health Awareness Week is from 15 to 21 May. The focus this year is anxiety. Here’s why mental health should be a top priority for your business.

How does this affect your business?

It’s estimated over 17 million work days were lost between 2021 and 2022 due to work-related stress, depression and anxiety¹.

Taking steps to make changes at work can really help with managing work-related anxiety. It can also help colleagues to perform better at work.

We’ve put together some expert-approved tools and resources for you to share that raise awareness of the importance of looking after your mental health.

For your business

• This April, we are launching our new Workplace Mental Health Advantage proposition. Watch this video to find out how we can help everyone in your business thrive.
• Employer internal communication (DOC, 0.02MB)
• SilverCloud intranet copy (DOC, 0.02MB)
• Bupa Academy Mental Health module leaflet (PDF, 0.2MB)
• Family Mental HealthLine leaflet (PDF, 0.2MB)
• Direct Access mental health brochure (PDF, 0.3MB)
• Workplace Health Insights – Every mind matters event recording

Guidance and support for line-managers

• Open up at work: Manager’s guide (PDF, 1.3MB)
• How learning can benefit your team’s mental health: Manager’s guide (PDF, 0.8MB)
• Managing loneliness in the workplace

Resources to share with your team

• Mental Health Hub
• Coping with anxiety about world events
• Inside Health | Family mental health video
• Coping with loneliness

Resources to share with your team dependent on your employee’s policy or health trust

• SilverCloud Wellbeing employee leaflet (PDF, 0.4MB)
• SilverCloud Wellbeing employee email (OFT, 0.06MB)
• Corporate Family Mental HealthLine employee poster (PDF, 1.2MB)
• Corporate Direct Access poster - Mental health (PDF, 1.0MB)
• Healthy Minds Employee Leaflet (PDF, 0.1MB)^*

For more information on mental wellbeing, head to Mind, Samaritans, Young Minds or Mental Health Foundation.

¹Work-relates stress, anxiety and depression in Great Britain, HSE. 2022.

^*Part of the Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)