The #TeamEngland Challenge set by the County Sports Partnership Network, in conjunction with the British Heart Foundation Health at Work programme, was launched during the opening ceremony of the Commonwealth Games and ran until Saturday August 16th.
More than 1,700 people took part from 179 workplaces across England and topping the table as the most active workplace in England was Leeds Metropolitan University. The workplace that completed the most active travel during the challenge and topping the CO2 saved leader board was Siemens Industrial Turbomachinery Ltd.
Workplace Challenge has been running nationally since January with more than 15,740 workers from around the country having logged 389,000 hours of activity. In support of the campaign, England’s Commonwealth athletes set their own challenges to members of the public.
Laura Samuel, silver medallist in triple jump at the Commonwealth Games said: "It was fun being involved in the Workplace Challenge and hearing how competitive workplaces were getting in logging their points. It mirrored the competitive spirit on the track and I believe that it really is important to connect large sporting events with the public to help get people started or return to activities that they once loved themselves at school.”
Lee Mason from the County Sports Partnership Network added: "We have been really pleased with the results of the Workplace Challenge programme to date with more people signing up to this recent challenge despite it being through the summer holidays, a time when traditionally people are on holiday. We will continue to make the online platform accessible to even more parts of the country and we believe that we are genuinely reaching new audiences using the workplace as the trigger for lifestyle change. Our goal will be to build momentum on the run up to Christmas and achieve 500k hours of activity logged by the end of the year.”
0845 680 8307workplacechallenge@citydesksport.com
