Government implored to increase mental health first aiders
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Ahead of Mental Health Awareness Week, which ran from 18-24
May, event industry association HBAA called on the government to
support a 1:50 ratio of Mental Health First Aiders to staff across all
industries.
Fear and anxiety about job security, concern for a safe working
environment, increased workloads and financial burdens are some
pressures likely to effect mental wellbeing before and during the
Covid-19 recovery period for businesses.
HBAA is working with the Business Visits & Events Partnership
(BVEP) to request for funding towards the initiative. They have also
placed the issue on the government’s agenda via the Department of
Culture Media and Sport (DCMS).
The initiative forms part of the HBAA’s ongoing mental health
campaign, alongside a series of webinars discussing mental health
and other topics to help members during the pandemic.
Football returns to
Germany…with
cardboard cutouts
Germany’s top flight football league, the
Bundesliga, returned to action on Saturday 16
May.
Bundesliga team Borussia
Monchengladbach placed 12,000 cardboard
cut-outs of fans in the seats of its home
ground Borussia Park, to provide the illusion
of fan engagement.
The Bundesliga became the first major
European football league to make a
cautious return to play in light of the global
coronavirus pandemic. One pre-requisite of
the return was the playing of matches behind
closed doors, with no more than 213 people in
a stadium, including players and staff.
The cutouts come from a fan campaign
called “Stay at home. Be in the stands.”
Borussia fans paid €19.00 to install a
cardboard version of themselves in the
stadium stands, with all proceeds raised
going to local charities.
Serbian Prime Minister un-cancels EXIT festival
Ana Brnabic, the Prime Minister of
Serbia, has asked the organisers of the
country’s EXIT festival to un-cancel
the event.
EXIT Festival was cancelled in
May, but will now be going ahead
as planned in August 2020 after
intervention by the Prime Minister.
Brbanic said that, due to drastic
improvements in Serbia’s health
situation, she and a team of experts in
a National Crisis Team are advising
the go-ahead.
“We recommend to move the
festival to August because we expect
that the situation (with the pandemic)
in the whole of Europe will be totally
under control by then,” said Brbanic.
EXIT founder Dušan Kovačević
commented: “The festival in its full
format, with 55,000 per day and 40
stages, will probably not return until
2021. However, are delighted to hear
that we’ll be able to mark the 20th
anniversary of EXIT this summer
with meaningful and safe event.”
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