On-Footse marks Top 50 milestone

Close to 50 local businesses are now ‘listed’ on Cambridge's ‘On-Footse’ Top 100 Index — which will see their most energetic employees competing for the top places by racing a competitive mile at the University of Cambridge Athletics Track on Sunday, 26 June.

Companies on the index so far range from some of Cambridge's major corporate players to small, innovative start-up businesses — all of whom are entering at least one runner to take part in the charity race event to raise money for local mental health charity Cam-mind.

Pictured here with Aly Anderson from Cam-mind are just some of the most recent entrants from CSR, Mills & Reeve, Hewitsons, FLAX, John Lewis and Halo Health & Fitness. Check out the website — www.footse100.org — for the full list, together with details of last year's event and how to enter.

“Most businesses have a least one employee who is keen on running either competitively or just for fun, and this event is designed to bring all those runners together for a bit of good-natured corporate competition,” says Cam-mind's Aly Anderson, who adds that there is still plenty of time for other employers to take their place at the event.

“There are trophies up for grabs for the fastest man and woman, together with the coveted top places on the listing itself for the businesses whose employees run the quickest times — and an age-related handicap system will be in place to make the event as open as possible.”

Money raised by this year's event will raise funds towards the invaluable work that Cam-mind is doing to raise awareness of mental health problems at work — and to help local employers tackle the issues of stress, depression and anxiety within their staff teams.

“We already offer the highly regarded Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) course locally and will shortly be launching our stress-busting, team-building Laughter W☺rksh☺ps!,” says Aly Anderson.

“We now want to develop a range of other services and resources to support the wellbeing of local employees — and to help managers and HR professionals in their roles. These services will help to prevent mental ill-health as well as provide support/signposting for those already affected.”