Is Britain a nation that can be Bothered?

In a world where so many people find it hard to be bothered, Simplyhealth is encouraging the nation to show it still cares by launching its first ever Bothered Week.

The week runs from 6 to 12 September and focuses on the importance of ‘being bothered' about the health, happiness and wellbeing of our family, friends and communities.

The week has been broken down into five themed days and will concentrate on different aspects of ‘botheredness':

Monday marks the launch of the week and the release of the third Bothered Britain Report

Tuesday focuses on taking more time to care about families and family health

Wednesday is all about the workplace and encouraging employees and employers to take time to think about health and wellbeing

Thursday takes being bothered into the community, and encourages everyone to get out in the community to volunteer or consider others more

Friday will concentrate on your own health, and is where we will release the findings of our study, which aims to prove that helping others does make you feel happier and healthier

Here's how you can get involved:

Email bothered[at]simplyhealth.co.uk to get a free t-shirt for you and your friends to wear while carrying out your acts of botheredness. Make sure you email us with a photo so we can paste them onto wecanbebothered.co.uk

Why not share your kind deeds with us by logging on to our bothered forum which can be found at wecanbebothered.co.uk

Follow us on twitter via @icanbebothered and tweet us your acts of kindness
Join our Facebook group, We can be bothered
To find out more, just visit wecanbebothered.co.uk