Our focus is on making workplaces happy and healthy places to be. We had experienced corporate burnout ourselves and wanted to support people directly.
We started the business in early 2020, before everyone knew what was going to happen in the world that year! Our original plan was to do lunch-and-learn sessions in workplaces, however once the pandemic hit it became clear that wasn’t possible.
We knew that COVID was going to be a really hard time for people, and our first thought was: how can we help? We had always planned to have a digital offering, but lockdown accelerated that. So within two weeks we had put together a website with a range of free resources for wellbeing.
The pandemic made people realise that they had to look after both their mental and physical health. Putting that top of the agenda helped us as a business, and employers want to get that help and support for their staff. Our mission is to continue to help people as we grow as a business, to evolve our offering further, support the workplaces of the future, and to create longlasting change.
We reached out to businesses, inviting them to share the website with their staff to help them during that tough time. In only a few weeks, we had thousands of people on the website, but not having a tech background ourselves we felt a little daunted!
It was around then that we met DigitalCity team. We accessed a grant and a programme of support, which helped us structure our digital offering and shape our MVP (minimum viable product). Our advice to anyone would be to take up that support from DigitalCity – you don’t realise until you speak to the experts how much they can really help.
The Tees Valley benefits from a great business network. People are willing to help and share their own stories, especially fellow female founders, and really want to see our local businesses succeed.
A lot of traditional businesses know that they need to be digitally ‘visible’, so connecting with digital businesses is very important and it’s great to see that happening in our region. Whether it’s employee engagement, marketing or cyber security, there are so many businesses out there who can help. The support is there to help you – if you have a good idea, go for it!
Website: keywellbeing.co.uk
