Staff benefits update

03 Mar 2021

Flowers, travel, wellbeing and the photo of the week

With Mother’s Day on the horizon you can save at designer florist Mimosa Flowers. Their luxury flowers are hand delivered across Greater Manchester, or sent anywhere in the UK.

With the interest in travel now finally back on the up, now is the time to visit the range of UniDiscounts travel discounts with leading cottage providers and international tour operators. There is a diverse range of operators including Coastal Treats has over 500 quality cottages in Pembrokeshire.

Wider Wallet has a full range of travel operators from Tui, James Villas, First Choice, Hoseasons, Cottages.com, Forest Holidays, Haven and Princess Cruises. You can also experience some of Britain's most stunning countryside by boat – and save 15% with ABC Boat Hire. 

Reminder: The closing date for the University’s Volunteer of the Year Awards 2021 is midnight on Sunday, 7 March. There are three individual categories: student, staff and alumni; and one group category for students!

Wellbeing updates

• A new Zoom schedule has landed and you can now book your online fitness classes from 15 March – 7 May.
• All university staff can access Health Assured’s ‘My Healthy Advantage’ App and online Wellbeing Portal.
• Digital wellbeing courses on Wednesday, 17 March - 2pm

Photo of the week

This week’s photo shows New Islington in Manchester in the sunshine. The photo was taken by Paul Marks-Jones, from the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Team.

If you would like to share a photo just email staffbenefits@manchester.ac.uk. Images just have to be landscape format and a jpg or png file. Photos can be from top of the range Nikons to a simple smart phone!

Keep well and stay up to date with all your benefits and wellbeing options.