Coming this September!! Cemex UK is thrilled to launch our very first Cemex Wellness Week. This will be an opportunity for all employees to prioritise our wellbeing, get Fit4Life, and explore new ways to stay active. Together, we can foster a positive team spirit and build healthy habits.
What’s happening? Join us for Wellness Week and support the Cemex Wellness Cycle 2024 from September 16th to 20th! A dedicated group of cyclists will embark on a thrilling 5 day, 400 mile ride to raise awareness and funds for the charity Sense.
The wellness week activities will be supported by our #CollaboratingForCommunities campaign which will highlight Sense’s incredible work supporting people with complex disabilities. Cemex UK and Sense have teamed up for this epic fundraising challenge to inspire and unite communities across the UK.
We warmly invite you, along with our customers and suppliers, to help us raise vital funds for Sense. Together, we can make a significant impact by supporting people with complex disabilities in their workplaces and communities. Together we can achieve more – and by taking a #CollaboratingForCommunities approach with our colleagues, customers, suppliers and partners, we can make the greatest impact.
Why are we doing this?
At Cemex, our talented people are the foundation on which our company stands. Coming from different countries, cultures, and backgrounds, our people’s diversity makes our company a stronger, more exciting environment in which to excel. By fostering an inclusive, dynamic, and diverse workplace, we embrace our unique strengths to create shared opportunities for innovation, learning, and growth. Together, we will build a better future for our families, our customers, and the communities in which we live and work.
The Cemex Wellness Cycle 2024 builds on this desire with a fundraising event to embrace and inspire positive change. By shining a bright spotlight on Sense, we hope to raise awareness of the charity’s important aim – ultimately helping to support Sense to develop more inclusive working environments, reduce the barriers to employment and focus on creating opportunities, so that more people with complex disabilities can experience the world and fulfil their potential.
About The Challenge
During the week of Monday 16th to Friday 20th September, a core team of Cemex colleagues will be taking part in The Cemex Wellness Cycle 2024 – an epic 5 day, 400 mile cycle ride, taking on the length of England. Starting at Cemex’s Stockton-on-Tees office in County Durham the challenge will finish up with a grand finale at our Southampton office.
The ride will take in several Cemex sites on route, including Dove Holes quarry in the Peak District, Cemex UK Head Office, Binley in Coventry and our Rugby Cement Plant, also in the Midlands.
We’d love it if you can support the challenge across the UK, with initiatives planned at our Cemex sites along the cycling route, to build community and provide further opportunities for fundraising support.
How to get involved!
You can get involved in a number of ways in advance of the challenge and during the week by:
- Sharing the poster on all workplace notice boards – you can find the poster on the UK News website: here
- Cheering on our core cycling team as they pass our Cemex sites.
- Pledging a donation to Sense on our JustGiving page
- Set yourself an activity challenge, e.g. walking, cycling, swimming challenge and share it with us.
- Using our static bikes at Binley, Rugby, Dove Holes, Southampton Marine and Stockton sites, get together a team to match the cyclists’ miles.
- Getting a team together and log in your activities – be it, running, cycling, swimming, mowing the lawn – we will be sharing a step converter – every step counts!
Let’s see if together, we can match the mileage (total steps equivalent) of the core team’s Cycle Challenge!
We’ll be sharing more about how you can get involved and setting up your teams NEXT WEEK!