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.
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.)
We are very excited about our upcoming conference - and we hope you are too!
Make sure you have booked your spaces - either online, or in person, at the Royal College of Nursing, Cavendish Square, London, for the 12th of June! You can do this by emailing info@mindfulbusinesscharter.com and make sure to provide the name, email address, job role and the name of the organisation for every person you register for.
To read the full agenda and find out more, click here.
Our friends at Dereito Mental have kindly translated both the Best Practice Guidelines, and the accompanying Checklist into Portuguese ahead of an event that we are very pleased to be taking part in.
On 7 May, Richard will be in Lisbon for the 3rd Forum on Best Practices in Legal Sector Well-Being, co-organised with Direito Mental and hosted by Morais Leitão. Richard will be joining to share key lessons from our work so far and introduce the MBC Best Practice Guidelines, which offer a practical framework for creating healthier, more respectful ways of working in legal environments.
You can view the translated documents here.
(We would be keen to hear from other organisations across the world who would be able to translate the Guidelines into other languages. If this is something you would like to be involved with, please email charlotte@mindfulbusinesscharter.com)
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.
We were very pleased to be joined in this Insight Session, Steve Ramsey of Harmeston Consulting Harmeston, who, for the past few months, has been working with his team to create a straight forward, and practical method to implement change with clients that incorporates MBC ways of working at the outset, and throughout projects.
We also hear updates from Charlotte on the new members Forum, and from Richard on opportunities to meet and connect with the MBC in person, either at regional events in the UK, or at an event in Singapore in April.
For more details, to view the recording and see the slides, visit the forum post here.
We have created Best Practice Guidelines for all sectors, to help organisations effectively tackle mental health in the workplace.
These guidelines originated as legal sector specific but following a series of meetings with a taskforce with leaders from multiple sectors we were able to adapt them for use in all workplaces.
As well as this online session we are also holding a number of in person sessions that we would like to invite MBC members from all sectors to attend;
• Leeds – Womble Bond Dickinson – 12:30 -29.01.2025
• Cardiff – Blake Morgan – 16:00 -12.02.2025
• Birmingham – Pinsent Masons – 16:00 -12.03.2025
• Belfast – TLT – 16:00 - 10.04.2025
• Dublin - TBC
If you, your colleagues or clients would like to attend one of these meetings, to find out more about the Guidelines, to share ideas, learn from each other and network, please email, info@mindfulbusinesscharter.com
(For a copy of the slides, along with additional resources, please see the Best Practice Guideline section in the table on the left under Resources.)
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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