Scheduled to run for up to six weeks, 'The Big Challenge' is designed to raise awareness of the importance of a healthier lifestyle at work and challenges participants to commit to do something to improve their wellbeing.
Commenting on the initiative, Mortgage Talk's managing director Andrew Frankish, said: "The BBC contacted us as part of a project to find the UK's healthiest workplaces and the staff who help create and maintain such environments. They are providing an enormous amount of on-line information encouraging people to join in, and to quit some of the unhealthy things we all do.
'In addition, they are recommending how everyone can do something positive to improve their lifestyle without recourse to strenuous physical exercise. Overall, it's a great initiative and we're pleased to be part of it."
Frankish continued: "We are going to be working with Radio Sheffield as part of our challenge. There are a range of initiatives we are going to try and some of our staff will be keeping diaries, both manual and electronic for a period of a fortnight to record their experiences. They will be sharing these on the BBC South Yorkshire Website and I'm pretty confident we will see both highs & lows being reported. As part of the challenge we expect to be featured on the radio sometime towards the middle of November."
"Prior to this we will be visiting the radio studios to witness how programs are put together and meet up with the people running the campaign on behalf of the BBC. I'm going to be taking part in the challenge myself and I'm looking forward to coming through it having had some fun and adopting some new lifestyle habits that will stay with me and help keep me in better health. If we eventually win one of the BBC's Works Health Awards then that
would be the icing on the cake, even though I now understand that cake isn't one of the healthiest things around," he added.
