Healthy Working Lives

Our Healthy Working Lives journey started in 2010 when we achieved the Bronze Award – the first accountancy firm in Fife, and indeed Scotland, to attain this challenging accolade. A successful initiative to supply fresh fruit in the office prompted the firm to sign up to the programme, run by the Scottish Centre for Healthy Working Lives (www.healthyworkinglives.com).

Following a confidential staff survey, a working group was set up to promote the aims of Healthy Working Lives and to explore the suggestions that were raised from the survey. This has led to campaigns on healthy eating and an active lifestyle, including walking and running groups and the firm’s support in taking part in events like the Edinburgh Marathon.

Healthy Working Lives is seen very much as an ongoing vehicle to promote the health and wellbeing of everyone within the Thomson Cooper team. We've now achieved and maintained Gold standard, the highest level possible. Managing Partner David Walker is a strong advocate of the programme, “We are delighted to be part of the Healthy Working Lives success story. Everyone has shown real enthusiasm for the programme and I’m very proud to see our staff getting involved in various sporting challenges.”

What are we up to?

Tough Mudder Triumph in aid of Fife Kidney Support Group

Our intrepid team raised a whopping £1,400 for Fife Kidney Support Group recently at a gruelling Tough Mudder event in Thornhill, near Dumfries on June 16th. Read all about it here.

Spring Pedometer Challenge

There was certainly a 'spring' in our step this year with our teams achieving over 8.4 million steps over 4 weeks... that gets you to the Bahamas!  The overall winning team was 5 Star Steppers with a whopping 1,692,013 steps. However, the winners of the most improved team was Step Club 5, who managed to improve their performance by an amazing 48.47% over the course of the four weeks. Amazing job everyone.      

Autumn Pedometer Challenge

The spectacular colours of autumn spurred our teams on to achieving almost 5.5 million steps over 2 weeks. Extra pats on the back to Lesley, Stuart and Andrew who all broke the 200,000 step mark. Fantastic effort everyone.      

Great Glen Challenge

Our Great Glen Challenge team had a fantastic day coming 8th out of 27 teams, with Mark Gibson coming 4th in the running section and raising over £1,200 for RSABI.