Staff in every office choose their own charity, ensuring local support is provided throughout the UK. All money raised by employees is matched to the charity by the company. As an energy consultant they are constantly reducing companies' energy costs and so reducing carbon emissions and improving the environment.

They have a gym within the office. They also provide help and support to stop smoking allowing time off work to attend support groups. All staff are given full pay when off for personal circumstances.

They believe their senior leaders should be highly visible and should communicate in a personable way. The breadth of channels and methods of engagement speaks volumes. Their range of engagement tools includes executive lunches, coffee mornings, divisional briefings, specific intranet sites, e-zines, podcasts, webcasts, branch TV broadcasts, DVDs such as Scottish Widows Our Story, Lloyds TSB radio recordings which employees can dial into via telephone..

They continue to operate various bonus schemes across the organisation including those that are specific to a role, for example in Sales. This ensures employees are rewarded fairly and appropriately.

All staff at Liquid Plastics are encouraged to have personal development plans. There is also a Future Leader Managers programme; potential managers can join this programme to help them develop skills for future use. This helps them to always, where possible, to promote from within.

Senior managers actively encourage staff to get involved with fundraising activities and always lead by example by getting involved themselves. At the annual Christmas party senior managers and directors sit on tables with their teams rather than all together.

Lighterlife has a dedicated charity, Little Havens. They also do fundraising for charities such as the Stroke Association and Breast Cancer. They also do their bit when it comes to recycling including donating unwanted paper to local schools. Employees also take part in the cycle to work and car share scheme.

Lighterlife has a dedicated charity, Little Havens. They also do fundraising for charities such as the Stroke Association and Breast Cancer. They also do their bit when it comes to recycling including donating unwanted paper to local schools. Employees also take part in the cycle to work and car share scheme.

All employees attend an annual away day abroad. The business always ensures they say thank you and acknowledge excellent work as a result of this they also give discretionary rewards such as thank you dinners or small tokens of appreciation, as well as financial bonuses.

All employees attend an annual away day abroad. The business always ensures they say thank you and acknowledge excellent work as a result of this they also give discretionary rewards such as thank you dinners or small tokens of appreciation, as well as financial bonuses.

Commitment to environmental issues means that staff are encouraged to use public transport or bicycles wherever possible, even if it takes longer. The recycling initiative has reduced their contribution to landfill waste by 70% over the past 12 months.

LDA Design offer an Inspiration Training fund which people can apply to for money and extra time off in order to visit a place, exhibition, training course or something else that will inspire them in their work.

Extensive Training; linking into the CPD's they provide extensive training open to all staff. Each individual is asked to identify their training requirements for the coming year in their annual review and wherever possible demand is met. They invest significantly in personalised management, marketing and personal development training using both in house and external training agencies.

A drinks night/tidy Friday takes place every fortnight and as well as having a good impact on the working environment, after the tidy up drinks are provided which enables everyone to relax and unwind after the week. This is a good chance for senior managers to chat with everyone in an informal and relaxed environment.

Managers are supported in this organisation by specific in house training, formalised Mentoring Programme and formal policies and procedures around Performance Management and Staff Development which is supported operationally by HR. Unusual for this organisations sector, a discretionary rather than formulaic bonus system allows them to recognise development in the broadest sense.

The company operate a non-hierarchical environment, this is demonstrated in a number of ways from the attitude of senior management, who encourage ideas from all individuals within the organisation, to the open plan lay out and ‘open-door' policies of managers. Using the ‘Ask Piers?' facility on the intranet, any member of staff can email the Chief Executive directly, openly or anonymously.

The group support a number of community initiatives and organisations by giving time, resources and financial support. Employee suggestions of such initiatives are actively encouraged.

The group support a number of community initiatives and organisations by giving time, resources and financial support. Employee suggestions of such initiatives are actively encouraged.

Kent County Council provide and manage a Total Benefits Package which includes non cash and cash awards, salary sacrifice schemes, carers leave and many more.

The council allow employees to volunteer in the local community. They also have implemented the Green Champion concept and trained environmental auditors and the Enterprise and Innovation Centre is run by the Kent Sustainable Business Partnership.