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  • Professional Builder Podcast: Building Mental Health

    |Date: 4 May, 2023
    Professional Builder Podcast: Building Mental Health

    Professional Builder Podcast: Building Mental Health

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  • How Band of Builders continues to tackle mental health

    |Date: 18 April, 2023
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    How Band of Builders continues to tackle mental health

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    Builders’ charity expands counselling service in a bid to halt the rising suicide rate amongst UK construction industry workers Band of Builders, a national builders’ charity has expanded the support ...

    18 April, 2023
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  • Keylite raises £20,000 for construction mental health charity

    |Date: 21 March, 2023
    Keylite raises £20,000 for construction mental health charity

    Keylite raises £20,000 for construction mental health charity

    Last year saw the return of Keylite Roof Windows (Keylite)’s ‘Kick it with Keylite’ initiative, which cha ...

    Last year saw the return of Keylite Roof Windows (Keylite)’s ‘Kick it with Keylite’ initiative, which challenged the UK construction industry to ‘keep it up’ for Mates in Mind, a leading charity addre ...

    21 March, 2023
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  • Data reveals half of construction workers feel lonely at work

    |Date: 7 March, 2023
    Data reveals half of construction workers feel lonely at work

    Data reveals half of construction workers feel lonely at work

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    © chayantorn/ Adobe Stock The findings, conducted by NESCAFÉ as part of the ‘Make Chat Work’ campaign, reveal that 47% of construction workers in the UK feel lonely in the workplace. This data is anno ...

    7 March, 2023
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  • Construction charity braced for Christmas surge in use of its new mental health text service

    |Date: 22 December, 2022
    Construction charity braced for Christmas surge in use of its new mental health text service

    Construction charity braced for Christmas surge in use of its new mental health text service

    National construction charity Band of Builders (BoB) is gearing up for an increase in use of its new ment ...

    National construction charity Band of Builders (BoB) is gearing up for an increase in use of its new mental health text service during the festive period – following new figures that indicate that 5,5 ...

    22 December, 2022
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  • Mental health in winter

    |Date: 19 December, 2022
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    Mental health in winter

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    It’s not only the nights that start to close in for many people at this cold and dank time of year. The UK’ s most famous helpline – the Samaritans – reports that it receives by far and away the highe ...

    19 December, 2022
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  • New text service to get builders talking

    |Date: 27 September, 2022
    New text service to get builders talking

    New text service to get builders talking

    A new text service has been launched as part of a growing campaign to get tradespeople to open up about t ...

    A new text service has been launched as part of a growing campaign to get tradespeople to open up about their mental health over a cuppa.   The new service, launched by national charity Band of B ...

    27 September, 2022
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  • News for the trades

    |Date: 14 September, 2022
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    SACRE BLEU! French heat pump costs blow hole in ‘nonsense’ UK government policy Current government policy believes heat pump costs will fall by 25-50 per cent by 2025 and reach parity with a gas boile ...

    14 September, 2022
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  • World Suicide Prevention Day

    |Date: 7 September, 2022
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    September 10 marks World Suicide Prevention Day (WSPD) 2022, an annual awareness day created to establish worldwide commitment and action on suicide prevention. With over 6,221 suicides registered in ...

    7 September, 2022
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  • Mental health in the construction industry

    |Date: 28 July, 2022
    Mental health in the construction industry

    Mental health in the construction industry

    Mates in Mind is challenging the construction industry to start the conversation about mental health Last ...

    Mates in Mind is challenging the construction industry to start the conversation about mental health Last year, early findings from our major study into the mental health of self-employed construction ...

    28 July, 2022
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  • Kick It With Keylite returns

    |Date: 21 July, 2022
    Kick It With Keylite returns

    Kick It With Keylite returns

    Following the success of last year’s initiative, Kick It With Keylite returns for 2022 – bigger and bette ...

    Following the success of last year’s initiative, Kick It With Keylite returns for 2022 – bigger and better than before. This year, Keylite Roof Windows (Keylite) is challenging trades to ‘Keep It Up’ ...

    21 July, 2022
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  • The mental health of construction workers

    |Date: 22 June, 2022
    The mental health of construction workers

    The mental health of construction workers

    In partnership with the IES and funded by a research grant from B&CE, we published the full report of ...

    In partnership with the IES and funded by a research grant from B&CE, we published the full report of our findings looking at the mental health of self-employed construction workers and those work ...

    22 June, 2022
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  • Shining a Light on Men’s Health Week

    |Date: 16 June, 2022
    Shining a Light on Men’s Health Week

    Shining a Light on Men’s Health Week

    It’s Men’s Health Week from 12th to 19th June and the Lighthouse Construction Industry Charity are suppor ...

    It’s Men’s Health Week from 12th to 19th June and the Lighthouse Construction Industry Charity are supporting the week by raising awareness of all the resources they have to support our men in constru ...

    16 June, 2022
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  • Supporting Mental Health in construction is a priority for CITB

    |Date: 13 May, 2022
    Supporting Mental Health in construction is a priority for CITB

    Supporting Mental Health in construction is a priority for CITB

    To mark Mental Health Awareness Week (9 to15 May 2022) CITB is pledging its continuing support to trainin ...

    To mark Mental Health Awareness Week (9 to15 May 2022) CITB is pledging its continuing support to training and understanding. A study compiled by the Lighthouse Construction Industry Charity and CITB, ...

    13 May, 2022
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  • Band of Builders launches free counselling service for tradespeople to tackle construction industry mental health crisis

    |Date: 1 April, 2022
    Band of Builders launches free counselling service for tradespeople to tackle construction industry mental health crisis

    Band of Builders launches free counselling service for tradespeople to tackle construction industry mental health crisis

    Construction workers in crisis are being urged to use a new free counselling service that has been set up ...

    Construction workers in crisis are being urged to use a new free counselling service that has been set up by a national builders charity, after its inaugural Big Brew fundraising campaign raised enoug ...

    1 April, 2022
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  • Tackling mental health issues within the construction industry

    |Date: 8 March, 2022
    Tackling mental health issues within the construction industry

    Tackling mental health issues within the construction industry

    A new app-led Mind Fitness training solution built by and for the construction industry to help tackle it ...

    A new app-led Mind Fitness training solution built by and for the construction industry to help tackle its mental ill health issues, officially launched last month. Ownminder, is the first industry-sp ...

    8 March, 2022
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