Self-employment can be a great option for people who might struggle to be taken on by an employer as they have health conditions, as it can be flexible around lifestyle, in terms of hours and working from home, plus the pace you work at and is often a necessity for some low paid workers

Customers with health conditions are widely perceived as being highly entrepreneurial and important for economic growth and innovation, and this has been proven in multiple employment and self-employment programmes historically

On the former DWP programme, New Enterprise Allowance, 23% of participants reported a health condition when starting their business. On our current programmes, this has risen to c41% reporting health conditions, 74% of these citing mental health barriers, 5% Disability and 10% neurodivergence.

To support this evolving trend and customer group, Momentic specialises in enterprise and self-employment with the hard to reach, in partnership with Charities, Support Providers, Local Authorities, Government, Housing associations and SME’s.

Examples of programmes:

• Health & Economically Inactive Self-Employment programme
• Health and Wellbeing for business
• Business resilience
• Health and wellbeing Peer networks
• Skills for business resilience

Momentic has partnered with York St John Communities Centre to offer a variety of well-being support workshops for business owners. We offer the following:

– Monthly ‘Wellbeing and You’: we delve into the concepts of ‘wellbeing’ and ‘self-care’ providing practical ideas for participants to build their own wellbeing toolkit to build resilience as an entrepreneur.

– Managing Overwhelm and Burnout: discusses anxiety, stress, overwhelm, and burnout, and how these challenges manifest. We explore potential triggers, warning signs, and symptoms, alongside tools, practices, and techniques for self-support.

– Boundaries and Balance: understanding the significance and effects of achieving a healthy work-life balance, as well as the common challenges that come with maintaining it.

– Creating Confidence in Work and Life: this explores imposter syndrome, confidence-building, and participants personal definitions of ‘success’ and ‘failure’. We explore how these elements interconnect and their impact on wellbeing, life, and business.

– Navigating Working Alone: we look at the unique challenges of working in isolation, whether as your own boss/and or as a solopreneur, and how these affect wellbeing and business success

Momentic also partner with the Better Health Generation to deliver health and wellbeing programmes to customers tarting and growing their own business:-

• Resilience and Bouncing Forward
• Preventing and Managing Burnout
• Goal Setting and Motivation
• Work Life Balance and Setting Boundaries
• Sleep Hygiene, Nutrition and Business Performance
• Self-Worth and Success

Momentic have run a number of programmes helping unemployed and economically inactive who are starting their own business, improve there resilience and overall health and wellbeing, programmes includes:-

1. Business Skills: resilience; planning; organisation; overcoming barriers; key tips and tools.

2. Wellbeing and Health: wellbeing advice; mental Health: techniques; complementary: wellness action plans: support signposting locally and nationally.

3. Business Resilience: Back-ups plans, Burn out, Stress management, achieving balance, Triggers, Top tips for small business owners.

4. Identifying barriers to success: identifying barriers affecting participants business and provide coaching sessions to build action plans to overcome.

5. Risk identification and mitigation: coach participants to be able to independently and proactively identify risks and coach on how to develop effective risk mitigation strategies tailored to their business.

Case Studies

London- Mariia Bezusa – Art For Wellbeing – YeSence – Momentic

Scotland-Wendy McRuvie – Natural Healing – Momentic

Manchester- Danny Walker – Fitness Trainer – Momentic

South Central – Andy – Boat Skipper – Momentic

Mandi Simms – Mint Royal Emporium – Momentic

Momentic is driven to deliver self-employment and business support services to the widest possible customer groups, as we believe a career in self-employment can be the best option for those that need flexibility and adaptations in their working lives that employment can not always provide.

We have selected Allied Health Professionals and clinicians, who support both our models of development and subsequent delivery, as required. The professionals we call upon include:

• Occupational Therapists
• Physiotherapists
• Health Trainers

Registered with the Clinical Governing and Regulatory bodies, such as the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) and supporting Continued Professional Development the team of Allied Health Professionals deliver a number of interventions for both Momentic and our partners, to include but not limited to:

• Scoping exercises of health services/care services as either embedded or wraparound services to our enterprise and business development programmes
• We consult with them and utilise their skills to support our partner modelling and delivery in understanding how our own service may fit within a larger model and have the key health requirements to add value to outcomes e.g. Integrated Care Boards, Welfare to Work providers and the third sector (charities, social enterprises etc)

In this approach we adhere to Care Quality Commission requirements, standards and best practice, to include:

• Developing health related operational models, quality procedures, and compliance
• Review and evaluation of our own and partner organisations current delivery model of care provision and skills mix
• Disabled and accessible design for major and minor adaptations of work space