Hear from our previous prize winners below
Leonie - £100 John Lewis voucher winner
“Taking part in the Active Wellbeing European Challenge has been so fun and motivating. Such a fun way to encourage everyone to be active whilst virtually walking through Europe!”
Richard - £100 Decathlon voucher
It’s been great fun taking part in the Active Wellbeing European Challenge, the greatest joy is seeing my colleagues all get involved, increase their steps and have some healthy competition – great team and morale booster.
Natasha - £100 John Lewis voucher winner
Active Wellbeing Europe for me has been about bringing together a diverse group of people within our business and working towards a shared goal, to get out and about more and generally promote healthy sporting activity. This year one of our team completed Ironman Wales during the challenge, so a few of us are using the challenge to try and match his amazing step count for that one day, but spread out over the whole event. It’s really encouraged some friendly rivalry and quite a lot of awe.
Sarah - £100 Decathlon voucher winner
I was delighted to find out I had won the £100 Decathlon Voucher. I joined the Nudge to Budge Active Wellbeing 2025 Challenge after being nudged by my colleague to join our local team. The challenge fitted perfectly around time with visiting family and motivated me to try to get my 10k steps in on a daily basis! Getting out into the great outdoors with the family on a more regular basis was, and continues to be, just the tonic for our mental and physical health. We borrowed our friend’s dog (Badger) for a walk in Lyme Park 😊
Mark - £100 John Lewis voucher winner
Having previously been involved in Active Wellbeing through Defra, I was happy to dive into the May ‘Around the UK’ Challenge, and add to my team’s total. As ever, it spurred me on to do that little bit extra to contribute to the team virtually circumnavigating the UK – every single step matters. As ever, this was a fun initiative, which I’d encourage everyone to have a go of. Great job again by every one of my teammates and all other teams taking part, lots of whom clocked up some amazing distances!
Caroline - £100 John Lewis voucher winner
After completing a previous Active Wellbeing challenge in February 2025 my team and I became very competitive with the other local teams. We didn’t win although half the team are marathon runners! This time we doubled our steps. I was fortunate to be in Budapest for the last 2 days of the challenge and completed a walking tour which really boosted my personal step count. This time we beat our local teams. This voucher makes the experience even sweeter! Lol