Spark employees do The Push Up Challenge for NZ Mental Health Foundation

My cousin in Australia got me on to The Push Up Challenge which is an event that runs in July in support of an Australian mental health charity (Headspace). Participants are challenged to do 3,128 push ups over 21 days, representing the lives lost in Australia since 2017 as a result of mental illness.

I posted that I was doing the challenge to my work's (Spark New Zealand) Mental Health internal social media page. At Spark we are taking employee mental health increasingly seriously. There was interest from colleagues in both doing the challenge and suggestion of potentially raising some funds for a local charity.

We decided if we are going to raise funds, it would be great to support the NZ Mental Health Foundation as The Push Up Challenge is an Australian event in support of Headspace (an Australian mental health charity).

So whilst some of us challenge ourselves with some push ups (and pain), we hope to both have a conversation about the importance of mental health, as well as raise a modest amount for for the NZ Mental Health Foundation at the same time