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£50 'Wellness budget' from work

59 replies

FurBabyMum02 · 05/09/2022 19:12

So I've just found out that each employee has a £50 'wellness budget' per year that we can claim back on expenses, to do whatever we like with that will improve our wellbeing. Spa day, meal with friends, literally anything!

What would you spend yours on?

OP posts:
Soontobe60 · 05/09/2022 20:31

A lovely post summer facial

Surtsey · 05/09/2022 20:34

Each way on the second favourite in the 3.40 at Kempton Park?

AtillatheHun · 05/09/2022 20:37

What sort of organisations offer this? I’ve never heard of it!
id buy lots of supplements- moringa capsules and lutein / fish oil for my eyes since work is destroying them

Idiotintraining · 05/09/2022 20:52

Job dependant.

I would have a massage or some hydrotherapy.

Or I would buy a cross stitch kit and a hug tub of ice cream

MajesticElephant · 05/09/2022 21:02

My last job did this and I went on a craft day at a local garden centre. Now I would have a luxury pedicure and head massage at local wholistic day spa.

Gazelda · 05/09/2022 21:05

Book a premier inn and sleep for 24 hrs.

Alainlechat · 05/09/2022 21:08

We had similar and I bought some expensive face cream that I could not have otherwise afforded (but used to buy pre DC).

BarbaraofSeville · 05/09/2022 21:15

I'd drive to the coast and rent a beach hut and sit outside it and read and watch the sea, then go for a walk and get fish and chips and sit and eat them at my beach hut.

YesitsBess · 05/09/2022 21:26

Brontosaurus · 05/09/2022 20:23

I have three places near me that do really good cake, generally priced at £3.95 a slice. So for £50 I could go out for cake 12 times Grin

Pear and ginger at one garden centre. Coffee and walnut at the other garden centre. Chocolate orange at the deli. Back to the first garden centre for the fruit cake which is light and moist and not at all like heavy Christmas cake...

Cake is good for your wellbeing.

I wonder if one could navigate entirely by cake?

IbizaToTheNorfolkBroads · 05/09/2022 21:28

DH gets £150! He bought new walking boots, and went for a walk in the Peak District on his birthday, which he gets off.

LadyCatStark · 05/09/2022 21:34

Some nice new makeup but I work for the council so that’ll never happen 😂.

GettingOrganisedNow · 05/09/2022 21:36

Our company let us save it up over a few years, so I bought half of a decent bike with mine (and contributed the rest myself, obviously).

BarbaraofSeville · 05/09/2022 21:58

Is this an actual thing? I've never heard of it.

FuckyDoodleDoo · 05/09/2022 22:01

I had similar and spent it on monthly flower deliveries.

Beetr00t · 05/09/2022 22:30

DW gets £30 a month and spends it on Lego. 😆

ILoveAnOwl · 05/09/2022 22:36

A jewellery making or floristry workshop.

Ducksurprise · 05/09/2022 22:40

Gazelda · 05/09/2022 21:05

Book a premier inn and sleep for 24 hrs.

I was going to say wine, but actually this.

FayeGovan · 05/09/2022 22:40

How lovely

Ohmych · 05/09/2022 22:40

You lucky things. We got £50 to share between the whole team.

Brontosaurus · 06/09/2022 07:39

@YesitsBess You can absolutely navigate entirely by cake. A key skill in life, I think.

MinervaTerrathorn · 06/09/2022 07:41

Food, heating

NC654321 · 06/09/2022 07:44

bumbledeedum · 05/09/2022 19:57

Check your work don't do what my DP's do and put it through as a taxable benefit so you end up paying 20-40% of it yourself

Unfortunately companies are required to do this they don't have a choice ☹️

CrapBucket · 06/09/2022 07:46

My yoga classes are 45 a block so I'd basically save on something I do anyway, and put 50 into the household budget - but tbh food shopping is so expensive it wouldn't make any noticeable overall difference to my wellbeing.

Buzzinwithbez · 06/09/2022 09:49

A 20kg bag of magnesium chloride to go in the bath.
A magnesium supplement and some decent probiotics or omega 3 supplement

Applebark · 06/09/2022 10:02

In a previous job we used to get £200. I always used it for Glastonbury tickets. Grin