Cardiff & District Samaritans: News
Wednesday, January 03, 2007
Stress Down Day
Thursday 1st February sees the first annual Stress Down Day - a stress-busting twist on the classic Dress Down Days familiar to schoolchildren and office workers up and down the country.
Stress Down Day is Samaritans' national awareness and fundraising event and aims to get across a serious message in a light-hearted way. It's a day when Samaritans will be raising awareness of the effects of stress in the workplace and encouraging people to take better care of their emotional well-being.
It's also a day when we aim to raise as much money as possible, whilst having fun, enabling Samaritans to continue providing our 24-hour emotional support service.
What's involved? What do I have to do?
Encourage your colleagues to wear their slippers at work on Stress Down Day and donate £2 to Samaritans for taking part.
If lounging in comfy footware isn't practical, you can also organise a range of fun stress-down activities in the office:
- use a meeting room as a chill-out zone with low lighting and soft music, and charge people a small entry fee
- set up a smoothie stall, and sell delicious healthy drinks
- give out massages in return for a donation
- get things off your chest by setting up a secret confessions box
On a more serious note, you could use the day to raise awareness of the problem of stress in the workplace. Use Stress Down Day as an opportunity to obtain employee feedback on stress levels, encourage employee suggestions on reducing stress at work or debate the difference between 'stress' and 'pressure'.
For more information about what you can do and how we can help, or to register your interest in taking part, please contact our admin office on 02920 645 642, or email us on cardiff/at/samaritans.org
Here are some things you can download, print and display in your office:
- Poster for you to display details of your office's activities: sdd-poster.pdf [174kb PDF]
- General poster (420mm wide): sdd-poster-420mm.pdf [151kb PDF]
- 4 page A5 leaftlet: sdd_A5_4pp.pdf [210kb PDF]
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