Colleagues in our Finance Team took advantage of having a general health check recently, after their Finance PA, Rochelle Scargill, invited the University of Huddersfield to time a visit with their monthly meeting.

Get Set Goal is a service delivered by healthcare students in a bid to help improve the health and wellbeing of adults over the age of 18.

Rochelle, pictured left, said: "Like all teams, Finance have been particularly busy this year and the second half of the financial year only gets worse. Before the 2025/26 planning and year end gets underway, I wanted to provide an opportunity for colleagues to pause and check how they were doing, so invited in the University to carryout health checks.

“They also did a presentation on fitting more movement into your day, so if you spot Finance colleagues doing knee lifts while waiting for the microwave, or walking majestically, you’ll know why!

“Our team briefs have all been themed this year and the one for this month was Diwali, with activities arranged by a group of finance colleagues. Our Assistant Director of Finance, Nicola Ventress, also gave a presentation on Stress and Resilience to provide a toolkit for colleagues to use over the challenging months ahead.

“The feedback overall was very positive. Most of the team had health checks with some healthy competition over the results and everyone participated in the exercise routine the university took us through.”

Assistant Finance Manager, Bhavin Patel, pictured below, said: "I went for a health check just to get checked and make sure that I'm well. I found it really good and informative."