• Involve staff in ideas for promoting and running the campaign
• Use pedometers and run a competition – who walks most in your workplace
• Work with the catering team to discuss choices and reducing fat levels in some recipes
• Consider price incentives on fruit and veg
• Run a slim-a-thon in the workplace
• Mount a display either manned or unmanned in the staff restaurant
• Work with your IT department to produce a screen saver promoting Weight Wise @ Work incorporating consumer messages
• Produce a compliment slip promoting Weight Wise @ Work messages and ask the salary department to attach to all play-slips during June 2005
• Hold a waist/weigh in. People always love to know what they weight and how they figure waist wise
• Promote an increased range of food/snack/drink choices throughout the month?
• Work with local sports and leisure centres to promote cheaper access
• Develop local competitions working with local media all around the subject of Weight Wise @ Work with prizes e.g. family pass for the sports centre, a pedometer
• Spot check your office for the 'most improved' employee and present the healthy winner a prize – good photo opportunity for staff intranet or company newsletter
• Encourage good breakfast habits with a breakfast club
• Link in with all other activities during the month e.g. diabetes week, food safety week, British Heart week and Men Health week – all provide opportunity for partnership
• Run mini health MOTs - provide reasons for not having a spare tyre
• e-mail all staff with consumer messages throughout the month
• Hold a healthy picnic locally – maybe one you have to walk to
• Ask local workplaces to devise a healthy lunchtime recipe for long term use in canteens
• Compare different cultures snack choices within your community and where necessary offer healthy alternatives

No matter what you choose to do DO SOMETHING to promote Weight Wise @ Work

Useful Websites - look under "Work and Your Health" for a range of carefully selected links to support a healthy lifestyle at work.