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.
Registration is still open for the Mindful Business Charter Conference 2026!
Building on the success of our 2024 and 2025 events, this year’s conference will bring together colleagues from across the MBC community to connect, share and learn. We’ll be exploring some of the most relevant and fast‑evolving workplace topics, with:
Only a handful of in-room places now remain before we move to a waiting list for attendance at the Royal College of Nursing. If you’re hoping to join us in person and haven’t registered already, we’d encourage you to do so as soon as possible.Unlimited online attendance remains available for all MBC members, so colleagues across your organisation can still join virtually. Attendance is free and exclusive to the MBC Community. Please share with relevant colleagues
We were incredibly lucky to be joined by Imogen Carr of the 93% club who hosted a session for our members today on Social Mobility and Accent Bias.
On the panel was Jenn Barnett, head of Inclusion, Diversity and ESG at Grant Thornton UK, Helen Dallimore FRSA, head of training for byrne·dean and Winona Chan, legal counsel for Moneybox.
As well as looking at the negative impacts these issues have on individuals, including a class pay gap of 6k a year and reduced chances of promotion, we also looked at the negative impact on teams and businesses who ignore the competitive advantage of embracing diverse opinions, skill sets and experiences.
We also looked at what we can proactively do about the issues with ideas including -
📶 Use organisational data to tell the story of what's going on - who is getting in, and importantly, who is getting on - because this isn't just a recruitment issue!
🏦 Consider your organisations social events. Are formal dinners unnecessarily intimidating and off putting? Are there ways you can adapt things to be more accessible and welcoming?
❓ Be curious about biases - you can be an ally by challenging yourself, and by challenging what is going on around you - what assumptions do you make when you hear a foreign or regional accent? Who is being spoken over in meetings? Can you encourage more equal dialogue? Are questions about where you went to school or what hobbies you have putting people in awkward positions if their answers don't "fit"?
💡 You don't have to wait - a lot of the change can be done by each and every one of us!Thank you to all of our wonderful speakers, it was an excellent session.
View the recording here - Social Mobility & Accent Bias: A Panel Discussion
Join us on November 19th (17:00-18:30 +networking) for an event hosted by DAC Beachcroft in their new Bristol office.
Who Should Attend:
- Leaders interested in mental health and wellbeing
- Advocates for wellbeing initiatives
- Those curious about MBC
The MBC brings together a community of employers committed to lowering workplace stress and promoting better mental health.
The event is free to attend, and is open to members and non-members of the MBC. Please share with colleagues and your network in the region.
Event Highlights
- Discover how the MBC supports businesses in implementing their award-winning "Best Practice Guidelines on Managing Health in the Workplace."
- Explore the business case for wellbeing with insights from MBC's latest white paper.
- Get the latest updates on MBC's wellbeing tool before its official launch.
To register for this event, please email info@mindfulbusinesscharter.com
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
The Best Practice Guidelines complement the MBC Charter by providing a set of guidelines focused on recognising and minimising the risk factors which give rise to poor mental health. Here you will find the Guidelines, for the legal and non-legal sectors, and associated materials which will help you to implement them in your organisation.
Here you will find a number of resources to get the ball rolling - tools and checklists to assist you in embedding and implementing the MBC principles into your organisation.
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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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 their ways of working. To help you with those discussions we have created some resources for you.
These training materials should assist you in making the case for embedding the MBC principles in your organisation. You will also find six bite size modules (developed by digital wellbeing experts Shine offline) which 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.
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 from other member organisations, so you don’t have to reinvent the wheel. Feel free to use them as a starting point to adapt them to your organisation.
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 latest MBC news in the media.
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.
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.
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.
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 intention of the Mindful Business Charter is to remove unnecessary sources of stress and promote better mental health and wellbeing in the workplace. There will be times when long hours and stress cannot be avoided, but this isn’t always the case, and we want it to become the exception rather than the rule. As a business community we have a responsibility to do things differently.
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