Welcome to the MBC members area. This is your gateway to all the news, updates, events and resources you will need to support you and your organisation in embedding the Mindful Business Charter.
We are holding an MBC Litigation event in Edinburgh and would love for you to join us.
We know all too well the stress that litigation and dispute resolution can cause to everyone involved, but does it need to be that way and could we be doing more to protect the people involved in this important area of work?
You are invited to an in person event for the Scottish legal market to showcase and bring together various important initiatives that are seeking to rehumanise the way litigation and dispute resolution more generally is conducted. The event will be in person, with a drinks reception to follow on.
Confirmed speakers include
- Victoria Hingston, partner, Payne Hicks Beach LLP
- Jennifer Wilkie, partner, Burness Paull LLP
- Lauren Evans, partner, Kingsley Napley
- Richard Martin, CEO, Mindful Business Charter
We very much look forward to seeing you on 3rd September and please feel free to pass this invitation on to colleagues or contacts who may be interested.To register for this event, please email info@mindfulbusinesscharter.com
Following on from our hugely successful NYC summit last September we are returning to New York on the morning of 16 September 2025.
When – 16 September from 9.30 to 11.30 followed by half an hour of networking
Where – Clifford Chances offices at Two Manhattan West, 375 9th Ave, New York, NY 10001
What – We will be sharing our latest research setting out the Business Case for Wellbeing as well as exploring our Best Practice Guidelines to address the mental health challenges in legal practice. We will also include time for attendees to explore these issues among their peers.
Who should come – Anyone in law firms or in house teams who is interested in mental health and wellbeing and wants to know how to convince their board of the need to act, as well as what they should be doing, and anyone who wants to learn more about the Mindful Business Charter.
Attendance is free, and open to both in person and online delegates. Please email info@mindfulbusinesscharter.com to register, informing us of your job title and any dietary requirements if you wish to attend in person.
We held our Members Conference on the 12th of June, and it was an incredible, impactful and very full day!
As you will no doubt have seen from our social media posts, we heard from 15 speakers from a wide variety of roles, sectors and backgrounds all gathering to share insights and continue the conversations that really matter to us. Of course, the conference is only ever a great thing because of those who attend and support it, either in person or online - so thank you very much to everyone who took part on the day, watched, asked questions, gave us very valuable feedback, and of course - sang!
To revisit or share the recordings from the conference click here.
You can download the slides from the event here.
Part of our work includes listening to feedback from you, our members, about resources that will help you embed the Mindful Business Charter.
One thing we were asked for was evidence that our approach is supported by a strong business case.
As such, Charlotte Clegg, our Community Engagement Executive has been researching and writing a white paper -collating over a hundred sources including academic papers, expert opinion pieces, news reports, government reports, industry discourse and research articles to provide a strong commercial argument.
This paper gives an in-depth exploration of -
You can now access this paper in full here.
We are also holding an Insight Session discussing the paper which will be held at 16:00 (GMT) on the 15th of May. (If you haven't already received your invitation, you can email info@mindfulbusinesscharter.com or use the link in the Events Calendar above.)
To directly tackle mental health in the legal sector, we created a taskforce with the goal of producing the Best Practice Guidelines we published in September 2024 – Addressing the Mental Health Challenges in Legal Practice – which we followed up with non-sector specific guidelines along very similar lines in January 2025. We have since built up a wealth of resources to aid implementation and conducted a series of regional meetings to socialise them across the UK.
We are thrilled that our work to create the Best Practice Guidelines for the legal sector has been recognised with the Legal 500 UK ESG 2025 award for Best Mental Health & Wellbeing Initiative.
The real work now is how those guidelines get adopted and acted upon. That is the work that will ultimately make a difference and we of course will continue our work to support organisations in doing that.
Thank you to all who helped to create the Guidelines and the accompanying resources, to those who have hosted or attended our meetings and those who are then taking them back to firms to utilise them – in continuing to work together we really can achieve fantastic things.
If you're new to the MBC, or if you want to refresh your approach to implementing the Charter in your organisation, take a look at our new Roadmap - which replaces our old Toolkit.
Packed full of ideas, examples and resources, in an easy to follow, step by step format, this document can help you. no matter what stage of the journey you are on.
To view and download the Roadmap, click here.
We want to make it as easy as possible for you to share the work of the MBC with your colleagues, old and new.
As such, we have created this video for you to use internally, to help new recruits, (or people who might want a refresh) understand what the MBC is, and why its important to your organisation.
Click here to view it.
The MBC holds regular events and calls to allow you to get involved, learning from others, and sharing your experiences in turn. We hold bi-monthly Signatory calls where we hear updates from members, along with Insight Sessions, discussions with leading experts on a variety of topics.
You can find upcoming events here, sync them into your calendar so you never miss them - but if you do, you can catch recordings in the Meetings and Events section.
Insight Session
Signatory Calls
New Joiner Events
Annual / Special Events
Notable Events (eg. Mental Health Week)
Signatory calls are where we allow our member organisations to give us updates on how they have been implementing the Mindful Business Charter, giving us all an opportunity to learn from each other. Here you can find an archive of past Signatory Calls. To view and join upcoming calls, subscribe to our Events Calendar.
Our Insight Sessions are brought to you by external speakers on diverse topics such as Neurodiversity, Stress and Burnout. Here you can find an archive of our past Insight Sessions. To view and join upcoming Sessions, subscribe to our Events Calendar.
Our Trustees provide strategic guidance, governance and support for the MBC, enriched by their years of experience in a variety of areas. This section provides a short introduction to them all and outlines their areas of responsibility.
As a signatory you can use these Logos and Visual assets on internal and external communication to help send the message that you are committed to reducing unnecessary stress through aligning with the MBC.
The more organisations that understand what we, the MBC and all its signatories are trying to do, the more effective we can be. It really helps if you can talk to your partner organisations about the MBC and how it supports your employees and there ways of working. To help you with those discussions we have created some resources for you.
Here you can find toolkits to get the ball rolling – straightforward guidance on how to embed the MBC principles into your organisation.
Digital wellbeing is an important factor in reducing unnecessary stress in the workplace. We can’t possibly be operating at our best if we are constantly interrupted by notifications, feeling the need to refresh our inbox out of hours, and ending up in cc chains that add no benefit to our day.
Developed by digital wellbeing experts Shine offline, these six bite size modules allow you to develop your understanding and gain practical tips to improve your relationship with your tech. It includes expert opinions from authors, psychologists and thought leaders, along with challenges, quizzes and accompanying written resources.
Each module is between 13 and 20 minutes, making it easy to allocate time to your development, either completing one a week, or whenever suits you.
As you travel along your MBC journey you may find you want to explore things in more depth, enrol Champions to help you strengthen the message across the organisation, or pick up some tips from organisations who are a little further along than you. This section provides you with a wealth of resources, so you don’t have to reinvent the wheel. Feel free to use them as a starting point to adapt them to your organisation.
MBC is a charity; we take our governance responsibilities seriously and want to be open and transparent. In this section you will find documents about that in practice - our constitution, details of our AGMs and the reports the trustees produce annually to describe our activity.
The latest MBC news in the media.
A large part of implementing the Mindful Business Charter is really about enacting behavioural change in your workplaces. As we appreciate that this can often be a sensitive and complex task, we have worked with the University of Central London and their Centre for Behavioural Change to bring you a variety of resources to help you. We were also delighted to work with them in completing some ground breaking research into MBC implementation - in both legal and non-legal sectors, a report of which you can find below.
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