CBS Butler take part in various company sponsored health related charitable endeavours including: London 2 Brighton and a football tournament. Celebration and fun are very much at the fore and CBS Butler hold regular events throughout the year to cater for everyone's preferences, including a variety of luxury experiences and great team building events. For example, the company hired Kensington Roof Gardens for a company-wide party, organised a river cruiser down the Solent with accompanying jet skis, arranged a weekend in Dublin and host an annual race day at Sandown Park.

CBS Butler take part in various company sponsored health related charitable endeavours including: London 2 Brighton and a football tournament. Celebration and fun are very much at the fore and CBS Butler hold regular events throughout the year to cater for everyone's preferences, including a variety of luxury experiences and great team building events. For example, the company hired Kensington Roof Gardens for a company-wide party, organised a river cruiser down the Solent with accompanying jet skis, arranged a weekend in Dublin and host an annual race day at Sandown Park.

Through a process of engaging with staff the company have developed a simple set of values that all Caritas employees are committed to. To maintain their personalised quality service to candidates and clients. To build a compliant business they can be proud of . To make Caritas a great place to work. Quality Service: The Senior Management Team each take responsibility for a particular area of the business and act as a Champion to ensure the company is delivering a quality service. These responsibilities include: - Candidate Care - Service to Managed Service Providers - Service to Direct Clients - New Business Development a Compliant Business: As a Social Care specialist recruiter this is crucial to the as a management team. The company have a strict policy that all managers uphold to prioritise safeguarding over profit. As such they strictly enforce their compliance rules and auditing process that ensures that all workers are fully vetted prior to being allowed commences an assignment. This includes a pre-placement audit by the head of compliance. A Great Place to Work: The senior management team are all committed to this principle as it is why they founded/joined Caritas themselves. They understand the value of happy workforce and ensure that they strike the right balance between fun and core work activities, between business rules and empathy for individual circumstances.

Caritas take the training & development of all staff seriously and recognise not only the benefit to the company, but the benefit to the employees themselves and how valued they feel by the business. Critical to identifying any areas requiring further development, each new starter has a monthly meeting for the first 6 months with their line Manager and their Director. These meetings are essential to monitor performance in line with expectations (new starter KPIs), and to identify any areas where an individual may need further support and/or training. Following a successful six month / probation review meeting, team members have a quarterly appraisal with these individuals in order to focus on achievements and to ascertain future goals and the training plan to underpin their appropriate career path. Underpinning these meetings, are weekly one-2-one meetings with line Managers, again with a view to identifying any training support needs. The company have an annual timetable detailing training courses for all staff for the year ahead, delivered by the in-house trainer, with follow up sessions including role play and refresher scenarios. In addition to the identification of staff training needs through regular one-2-ones and appraisals, the company use regular surveys to request opinions from their customers on their experience, so they can tailor their service offerings at a company level and gauge areas for development at a business level.

As a carers' charity, the organisation have made particular efforts to ensure the wellbeing of carers that they employ. They have developed, in consultation with staff, a policy that sets out how they will support the carers that they employ – including up to 5 days paid leave in any 12 month period if needed to deal with caring responsibilities. Carers Trust are also very open to requests to work flexibly / change working hours temporarily or permanently in order to help staff to cope with their caring responsibilities. These types of approaches are particularly important as carers are often under a great deal of pressure outside of work. They also have a regular feature in their monthly staff newsletter on various aspects of health and wellbeing - for example on topics such as back pain.

As a carers' charity, the organisation have made particular efforts to ensure the wellbeing of carers that they employ. They have developed, in consultation with staff, a policy that sets out how they will support the carers that they employ – including up to 5 days paid leave in any 12 month period if needed to deal with caring responsibilities. Carers Trust are also very open to requests to work flexibly / change working hours temporarily or permanently in order to help staff to cope with their caring responsibilities. These types of approaches are particularly important as carers are often under a great deal of pressure outside of work. They also have a regular feature in their monthly staff newsletter on various aspects of health and wellbeing - for example on topics such as back pain.

This year, the company have heavily invested in people's development, so much so that they have doubled their investment in training from last year. Throughout the year they have hosted numerous activities, including: Creativity Week: a week dedicated to getting people's creative juices flowing. Activities included; ballet lessons, Bollywood dance classes, rock choir, improv workshops, a DJ session and talk with Tim Westwood, and much more. Big Dig: a calendar of weekly sessions that allowed everyone to dig into their products and services following some feedback from the quarterly company meeting where they found, on the whole, people didn't have as much knowledge as they'd like to of the various products and services that exist within the Dentsu Aegis Network, and how they all knit together. Wellness Month: an entire month dedicated to wellness activities and inspirational talks to promote the importance of wellbeing. Activities included; boot camp, meditation classes, running clubs, personal trainer sessions, and various healthy mind and body talks throughout the month. PAC: The Company sent their top talent new to the industry for this 3 day highly regarded residential course. It involved working on a live brief for an international client, with the aim of driving debate and discussion whilst developing a deeper understanding of the advertising process.

The leadership team regularly engage in a huddle to talk through business performance, highlight any concerns, and share important updates with one another. They are always very collaborative in their approach, and role model exemplar behaviours in the way they manage and lead the business. They each individually attend team huddles on a regular basis to understand how the teams are performing, listen to their concerns, and provide support and guidance where needed. The leadership team also always dedicate time for an FAQs session at the quarterly Company meeting, On The Horizon as an opportunity for employees to ask questions and voice their ideas or opinions. The culture is very inclusive, and this is driven by the leadership team.

The company have a healthy working lives group led by staff for staff. This group runs information campaigns and events throughout the year and has, for example, led to a member of staff discovering undiagnosed diabetes.

The company have a healthy working lives group led by staff for staff. This group runs information campaigns and events throughout the year and has, for example, led to a member of staff discovering undiagnosed diabetes.

Every quarter the company aim to hold a company-wide activity, BeSocial, which is a way for employees to interact and bond outside of the work environment. The activity is chosen by employees and the company will provide funding for this. BeSocials engage employees and create a positive team spirit throughout the company. For any new employees, the company contributes £20 towards their first lunch – by doing this they are encouraging the new employee to engage with their new team and help them to feel welcome. Every Friday afternoon, the company hosts nibbles and drinks to finish off the week. It allows employees to feel relaxed after their hard work, and also a way for the directors to personally say thank you.

Every quarter the company aim to hold a company-wide activity, BeSocial, which is a way for employees to interact and bond outside of the work environment. The activity is chosen by employees and the company will provide funding for this. BeSocials engage employees and create a positive team spirit throughout the company. For any new employees, the company contributes £20 towards their first lunch – by doing this they are encouraging the new employee to engage with their new team and help them to feel welcome. Every Friday afternoon, the company hosts nibbles and drinks to finish off the week. It allows employees to feel relaxed after their hard work, and also a way for the directors to personally say thank you.

In circumstances where individuals contribute something exceptional that adds value to the success of the business they will be rewarded with an 'on the spot bonus'. The bonus is paid as and when performance is recognised and staff will be told of their achievement by a Director and receive written confirmation of the bonus. It is an effective way of demonstrating to staff that they are valued and that their efforts are recognised at the highest level. It is high impact because it rewards success immediately as opposed to it being recognised through an annual bonus scheme which could be up to 12 months later when with the passage of time it runs the risk of being perceived as less of an achievement. Examples of where 'on the spot' bonuses have been paid in the last 12 months are for: extremely positive client feedback on a high profile project, successful delivery of an internal IT based project within a tight time frame, for hard work and commitment in securing a new client and project when this is not typical for the job level. This type of bonus is in addition to the formal profit share and bonus schemes operated by the company where 60% of pre tax profits are distributed annually to staff through a variety of profit share and bonus schemes.

In circumstances where individuals contribute something exceptional that adds value to the success of the business they will be rewarded with an 'on the spot bonus'. The bonus is paid as and when performance is recognised and staff will be told of their achievement by a Director and receive written confirmation of the bonus. It is an effective way of demonstrating to staff that they are valued and that their efforts are recognised at the highest level. It is high impact because it rewards success immediately as opposed to it being recognised through an annual bonus scheme which could be up to 12 months later when with the passage of time it runs the risk of being perceived as less of an achievement. Examples of where 'on the spot' bonuses have been paid in the last 12 months are for: extremely positive client feedback on a high profile project, successful delivery of an internal IT based project within a tight time frame, for hard work and commitment in securing a new client and project when this is not typical for the job level. This type of bonus is in addition to the formal profit share and bonus schemes operated by the company where 60% of pre tax profits are distributed annually to staff through a variety of profit share and bonus schemes.

They hold annual Health & Wellbeing events, where colleagues can access a variety of services and information relating to their personnel health and wellbeing. These are very popular in the company, and are well attended and supported events. Amongst the things that are accessible to staff are head & neck Massages, advice on quitting smoking, advice on weight loss, taster sessions of sports and activities, advice and samples of healthy food, sight and hearing tests, help and advice on personal safety, help and advice on motoring/driver safety, blood pressure checks, access to help and advice on men's and women's health issues and many more depending on colleague requests, and relevant topics. As a result of their various activities on Wellbeing they were awarded a special recognition from Investors in People.

They work closely with other organisations to make their community engagement more meaningful, and frequently get involved in their activities and fundraising, from a financial and practical point of view. Where they have most success though is where they provide time and resources to help community organisations, who would otherwise not have access to such facilities. The MD donates a lot of his own time in a unique way, he is regularly approached to make speeches and presentations for business events. Their Infrastructure & Shared Services Director is Chair of the Pride of Tameside Business Awards and a member of the local Authorities Prosperous Board which is about sharing the resources and knowledge of a large employer in the local region with smaller businesses, to generate growth and investment in the local community.

Brookfield Rose is very passionate about giving back to the community and supporting charitable causes, and as a result they set up the Brookfield Rose Trust earlier this year, to support young people and provide them with the opportunity to learn new skills, with the aim to help them realise their potential. The Brookfield Rose group has donated and supported lots of charitable activities over the years. Every company within the group donates a percentage of its annual profits to support The Brookfield Rose Trust. In addition to this, they participate in other annual events such as Children in Need, MacMillan's World's Biggest Coffee Morning and Red Nose Day.

Many of our staff have worked as recruiters in previous roles, they believe that as a business, they have strong enough networks to recruit to internal vacancies without using agencies. In the last year they re-invigorated their 'Refer a Friend' scheme to offer a generous referral fee for successful referrals, offering £1,000, £2,000 or £3,000 gross dependent on the starting salary of the individual referred. This is payable on successful completion of 3 months service by the new joiner. Additionally, the referrer is entitled to a meal out for 2 on the company at the time the individual joins. The rationale for this is that the cost of the referral fee is outweighed by the savings on agency costs. This has proved to be their most successful means of recruitment this year, with around 17 successful referrals ranging from apprentices to general managers. Staff are clearly motivated to refer as we have a regular supply of candidates coming through this scheme.