COLLEAGUE WELLBEING Colleague wellbeing continues Christmas wreath-making, providing to be a major priority for ITV. opportunities for reflection and connection outside of the day job. At the beginning of the year we launched a new Employee We’ve also supported colleagues Assistance Programme (EAP) that with their financial wellbeing, which is now available to everyone at ITV, has a huge correlation with mental including the sizeable community of wellbeing. We provided all colleagues freelancers working on productions, with information on the sources of international colleagues and support that are available to them dependants too. We continue to from ITV – from immediate support promote the services provided by and ITV benefits to help them spend the EAP to ensure that all staff are less, including a new benefit helping aware of what they can access. employees consolidate high-cost debts into one lower interest rate Employees and their families also loan, to ways of saving more in the have access to Digital Health Services short term and for the longer term. provided by the Aviva Digicare+ app. The Close Brothers hosted a number This year the number of sessions of financial education webinars available through the service doubled including making the most of Save for mental health. Over 2,050 As You Earn contracts, remortgaging employees are registered, with 57% and buying your first home. of employees registering their family members on the app as well. ITV Feel Good continues to support WHAT’S NEXT FOR Terrarium making for colleagues as part of ITV Feel Good colleagues’ mental wellbeing with MENTAL WELLBEING regular online and on-demand workshops and webinars. These 2024 sees the start of our new strategy Alongside this we will continue to explore include Dr Julia Jones’ talk on tiny period, which is focused on mental wellbeing. opportunities to highlight mental health and habits that make a big difference to wellbeing across all our content, including your health and Dr Guy Meadows’ OUR 2023 GOAL partnership content. Through our new Head First session on sleep and menopause. Award, there will be £2 million worth of donated In response to colleague surveys, 20 million actions airtime offered up to brands that promote new workshops on understanding taken by the public to support their mental wellbeing through their advertising. overwhelm and burnout were mental wellbeing. introduced and taken up by over We’ll also continue to work with the wider media 100 colleagues with more live Our Britain Get Talking initiative will continue to industry to understand how ITV can play a role sessions planned in 2024. ITV Feel play a huge role in driving these actions, tackling in supporting mental wellbeing on productions Good also ran events including some of the timely and critical issues we all face. and, of course, within ITV for our colleagues. summer terrarium making and ITV Social Purpose Impact Report 2023 19