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Wellness support from The Drinks Trust
UK trade charity the drinKs trUst increases wellness services to tacKle covid-19 needs and beyond year, although the intention is to increase the availability of the offering to meet the evolving needs of the drinks industry workforce. The services include: Guidance Resident wellness coach and leadership coach Kat Hounsell of Everyday People will be delivering tips and tricks to care for your holistic health. With industry expertise and insight, she will apply her guidance to a community she has been part of for many years. Additionally, new online and downloadable content and guidelines will be made available for community members efforts within its community, the UK trade charity has recently completed a round of one-off £250 financial grants to assist just under 2,000 of those who face loss of earnings as a result of Covid-19.
Where possible, the charity will continue to support people financially in the months ahead, however, the emerging and likely long-term effects the current situation will have on the mental health and wellness of the community has led the charity to launch significantly increased wellness services.
Covering key areas of wellbeing, the services will be delivered over an initial seven-month period until the end of the T he Drinks Trust has been providing support, care and assistance to the drinks industry workforce since 1886. With the support of industry donors and numerous fundraising
to learn more about the ways in which to approach their wellbeing concerns.
TalkinG Therapies The Drinks Trust is making an initial investment of £80,000 to provide online video therapy services, provided by Dr Julian, an online and app-based therapy service. The service’s purpose is to put accessible mental healthcare into the hands of everybody in the drinks industry.
Dr Julian has brought together a range of highly experienced therapists and psychologists, who offer psychological therapy through online video sessions and instantaneous text, that you can have on your phone, tablet or computer whenever and wherever you want. The service provides a secure and caring environment where they listen and treat you as the individual that you are, which in turn, allows you to focus fully on your health
sleep and insomnia TreaTmenT Although originally conceived as a service for those working late shift patterns and struggling with work-related stress, there is now an emerging need from the wider drinks industry as a result of work
Get in contact For more information on The Drinks Trust, or to donate, visit www.drinkstrust.org.uk. If you require urgent support, call the helpline on 0800 915 4610.
uncertainty and decreased physical energy expenditure.
The Drinks Trust is inviting 300 individuals to undertake a week-long sleep and insomnia assessment, with 150 then qualifying for a month-long treatment programme. The service is delivered by Sleepstation, the leading UK provider of sleep and insomnia treatment to the NHS, through app-based technologies and assessment tools, together with a live consultancy from trained sleep and insomnia specialist.
mindful drinkinG proGramme In June, The Drinks Trust will launch its first mindful drinking initiative. Partnering with Club Soda, the Mindful Drinking Movement, which has helped thousands of people to change their approach to alcohol consumption, the charity is ambitious to help its community to lead a healthy and productive career in the drinks industry.
The mindful drinking course is open to anyone working in or furloughed from the industry who wants to change their drinking by cutting down, stopping for a bit or quitting, for an initial period of three months from June.
helpline The Drinks Trust helpline was set up in 2017 and remains a core service to the drinks industry. The charity will be looking to help more people with increasing calls to its call handlers and, where necessary, refer them to therapists for counselling.
This will also enable more people to seek the vital mental health support they may otherwise not be able to access owing to the lack of availability on the NHS and the prohibitive cost of private care.
Ross Carter, CEO of The Drinks Trust, said: “Thanks to industry donor businesses, we are delighted to be able to offer our industry a greater range of support services at a difficult time. We hope that this is just the beginning of a broader wellness initiative. I urge you to complete the survey and to share it with your colleagues so we can build on these services.”
