Simple Changes

A Healthier Wales

Build up a picture of how easy your workplace makes it for those that want to walk, cycle or use public transport, and identify areas for improvement

A Prosperous Wales

Appoint social value champions.

Involvement

Share public engagement opportunities and data with other organisations

A Wales Of Vibrant Culture & Thriving Welsh Language

Use the Cymraeg comma on lanyards and email signatures of all staff who are Welsh speakers

A Prosperous Wales

Become a Living Wage employer

A More Equal Wales

Encourage your staff to visit local projects and meet key local people driving change

A Globally Responsible Wales

Check whether your contracts meet the needs of the Modern Slavery Act

A Resilient Wales

Adopt a single-use plastic policy, to remove single-use plastics from your estate

Involvement

Take involvement opportunities to people, rather than expecting them to come to you.

A Resilient Wales

Procure and plant native trees and shrubs as a first choice

A Healthier Wales

Take stock of mental health in your workplace

A Healthier Wales

Consider how you can ensure children have access to daily outdoor play

A Resilient Wales

Play your part in enabling local partnerships for all aspects of the natural environment

A Globally Responsible Wales

Use only Recycled Paper, and set a date to be paper free, and when printing move towards using only soy-based inks

A Prosperous Wales

Pay your suppliers promptly

A More Equal Wales

Promote job-sharing opportunities for elected representatives e.g. councillors

A More Equal Wales

Publishing data on protected characteristics and pay grades within the workforce. This includes the gender pay-gap

A Resilient Wales

Facilitate opportunities for volunteering with environmental organisations during or outside of work

Involvement

Include public involvement in planning, monitoring, reporting and staff appraisal

A Healthier Wales

Provide lockers for your employees

A Prosperous Wales

Publish and analyse data about how you procure goods and services.

A Healthier Wales

Encourage your employees to take breaks and eat away from their desk

A Healthier Wales

Provide mental health and suicide awareness training for all staff

A Wales Of Cohesive Communities

Explore whether you could use participatory budgeting approaches to enable people to make decisions about how some funds are allocated

A Wales Of Cohesive Communities

Play your part in enabling local people to come together in communities to meet and build social networks

A Globally Responsible Wales

Promote leadership opportunities to your staff to understand global contexts

A More Equal Wales

Ensure that your staff undertake training about Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)

A Globally Responsible Wales

Review your procurement policy and ensure that it includes fair and ethical practices (to include fair trade, marine stewardship council and forestry stewardship council

A Prosperous Wales

Encourage staff to hold meetings in local and independent coffee shops and cafes.

A Prosperous Wales

Hold regular surgeries for suppliers

Involvement

Involve people at the earliest possible opportunity

A Prosperous Wales

Maximise the potential for apprenticeships in your organisation

A Resilient Wales

Reduce the use of pesticides and fertilisers on road verges and in urban green spaces

A More Equal Wales

Set targets for the retention of women returning from maternity leave.

A Wales Of Vibrant Culture & Thriving Welsh Language

Ensure that arts venues you work with are signed up to the National Access Scheme (Hynt)

A Healthier Wales

Encourage walking and standing meetings, where appropriate

Involvement

Ensure you are having ‘what matters’ conversations

A Resilient Wales

Map public land to identify and publicise land that is accessible for use by community groups, with the aim of connecting wildlife habitats

A Wales Of Cohesive Communities

Help staff and residents to save and borrow with local credit unions

A Healthier Wales

Consider supporting your communities to redesign their streets to improve their health and wellbeing

A Wales Of Vibrant Culture & Thriving Welsh Language

Give free access to Park Run on any publicly-owned land

A Prosperous Wales

Consider opportunities to second staff within and between organisations, to share knowledge and develop transferable skills

A Wales Of Vibrant Culture & Thriving Welsh Language

Consider the opportunities to support and develop local clubs involved in sport

Involvement

Engage on a theme rather than a specific policy

A Wales Of Cohesive Communities

Explore the potential of time credits within your organisation

A Wales Of Cohesive Communities

Explore opportunities for intergenerational activities

A More Equal Wales

Provide ‘walk throughs’ of your services for your staff (particularly those in decision making roles) and governance leads

A Globally Responsible Wales

Support your staff and visitors to understand their personal carbon footprints

A Resilient Wales

Manage road verges and connected green spaces (such as spaces around buildings) for wildflowers and pollination

A Healthier Wales

Have a flexible working policy

A Wales Of Vibrant Culture & Thriving Welsh Language

Engage in National Play Day

A More Equal Wales

Ensure employees receive refugee and asylum seeker awareness training

Involvement

Use a variety of accessible, inclusive engagement methods and formats

A Globally Responsible Wales

Take one action for global learning such as getting involved in Fairtrade Fortnight, Go Green Day or Earth Hour.

Involvement

Carry out a ‘you said, we did’ exercise

A Resilient Wales

Explore offering hot-desking or video conferencing facilities to other public bodies.

A Wales Of Cohesive Communities

Enable local people to improve unloved space

Involvement

Train relevant staff in principles and practices of public involvement

A Wales Of Cohesive Communities

Consider supporting communities and/or your organisation to become dementia-friendly

A More Equal Wales

Offer deaf awareness training and British Sign Language (BSL) training for your staff, particularly for those on the front line

A Wales Of Cohesive Communities

Map out the community anchor organisations you are working with and explore further opportunities

A Resilient Wales

Use peat-free compost in planting schemes across cities, towns and villages

A Resilient Wales

Provide spaces for wildlife such as bird boxes, insect home ponds and bat boxes – especially in new developments

A Wales Of Vibrant Culture & Thriving Welsh Language

Ensure continued free access to museums, libraries and green spaces

A Globally Responsible Wales

Review your approach to refugees and asylum seekers and play your part in Wales becoming a Nation of Sanctuary

A Wales Of Vibrant Culture & Thriving Welsh Language

Ensure that all of your access points have bilingual greetings.

A Healthier Wales

Review your policies to ensure you’re optimising opportunities to improve your employees’ health and wellbeing

A Wales Of Cohesive Communities

Encourage community transport opportunities

A More Equal Wales

Make public information accessible through a variety of formats

Involvement

Use plain English and Welsh as standard in any documents intended for the public

A Globally Responsible Wales

Ensure your organisation takes part in Fair Trade Fortnight

A Prosperous Wales

Exploring funding options, or supporting community groups, to develop renewable energy projects on public land

A Wales Of Vibrant Culture & Thriving Welsh Language

Support and promote the Night Out Scheme

A Globally Responsible Wales

Review your energy contracts, pension providers and investment portfolios and reduce your burden on the planet and its people

A Resilient Wales

Provide ‘biodiversity / green infrastructure’ learning for staff across ALL Departments

A Wales Of Cohesive Communities

Publicise opportunities to volunteer locally

A Wales Of Vibrant Culture & Thriving Welsh Language

Encourage your staff to sign up for and use their free library card, providing accessible information on what the library offer

A More Equal Wales

Have initiatives to recruit people from groups that are under-represented in your workforce

A Prosperous Wales

Ensure that new developments and retrofitting of existing facilities must consider renewable energy sources and recycled materials

A Prosperous Wales

Support SMEs, social businesses and co-operatives to work together to jointly bid for contracts.

A Globally Responsible Wales

Calculate and understand your organisation’s carbon footprint.

A Wales Of Vibrant Culture & Thriving Welsh Language

Promote opportunities for older people to engage in culture, through the Gwanwyn Festival.

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