Free NHS fitness platform seeks leisure partners to champion growth

DoingOurBit, a free-to-participate, one-stop shop for fitness, health and wellness for NHS and social care staff, is calling on leisure sector businesses and individuals to “do their bit” to champion its next stage of growth and future-proof its services. Launched three years ago to support NHS staff during the first 2020 Covid pandemic, DoingOurBit has recently formed a not-for-profit company, relaunched its platform and created an App for users.

Its next goal is to offer in-person sessions at leisure centres and gyms before embarking on a series of activities designed to improve the health of the 1.4 million NHS and social care workers who, among them, are responsible for the nation’s wellbeing.

DoingOurBit is the largest ‘free to participate’ portal providing a blueprint for improved wellbeing of workers across the UK that aims to provide content, classes and a community. DoingOurBit is focused on driving forward the preventative health movement through free access to physical activity sessions and mental wellbeing resources.

So far, more than 140 healthcare employers have registered with DoingOurBit, giving around 750,000 NHS and Social Care staff access to the updated platform and new App.

Having free in-person activities and community-based activities will help to engage many more of the NHS and social care workforce.

DoingOurBit is now looking for further support from the leisure sector to scale up its services. At the outset in March 2020, three founding partners – Active IQ, fibodo and Study Active – pledged their help to DoingOurBit’s founder, Julie Davis. Their support enabled DoingOurBit to evolve and grow.

Davis said: “When I came up with the idea to help my NHS and social care colleagues manage during the pandemic, I couldn’t have imagined how far the DoingOurBit platform would come.”