The Restaurant Association, in partnership with Hospitality NZ have been developing a mental health support platform in collaboration with Helmet, co-founded by MasterChef NZ 2015 winner Tim Read.
Our aim is to develop a tool to empower people to better support others in their lives facing mental health and wellbeing challenges.
Through the development phase Helmet gained valuable insights from talking to members and the wider industry into the specific challenges facing the hospitality sector and how best to support it.
Through this process, Tim and his Helmet co-founder also made the decision to part ways. This has led the Association’s to implement some changes to our joint partnership and continue this vital work with renewed focus. We’re pleased to continue to work with Tim Read on a new initiative: a practical, hospitality-specific mental health toolkit, which we aim to launch next month.
Based on direct feedback from members of both associations, the toolkit will deliver on our shared goal: providing tailored, effective resources that support the mental well-being of our industry. We look forward to bringing you further details in the coming weeks.