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Health & Social Care
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BetterYou

At BetterYou, managers undergo a four and a half month formal management training programme to ensure they provide the best support for their teams. Regular meetings, performance reviews, and open communication lines between managers and team members foster trust and care within the team.
BetterYou champions team spirit and camaraderie. Regular themed office lunches, dart board tournaments, and team lunches off-site help foster a strong sense of belonging and fun within the team.
The company takes the wellbeing of its employees seriously. From providing regular office massages to hosting mental health workshops and discussions, BetterYou ensures a balanced work-life environment. The company also promotes physical health with initiatives like magnesium water fridges and fresh fruit availability.
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Education & Training
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Kiddie Capers Childcare

Kiddie Capers Childcare is committed to employee growth. The company actively supports and funds staff qualifications, helping them to expand their knowledge and skills. Many team members have progressed from practitioner roles to management, demonstrating the company's dedication to career development.
At Kiddie Capers, managers are supportive and caring, providing employees with the necessary assistance and guidance. They appreciate the hard work of their team, as evidenced by the monthly Amazon vouchers awarded for full attendance.
Kiddie Capers promotes a culture of teamwork and camaraderie. The company's ‘fun fund’ allows teams to choose and enjoy activities together, fostering a sense of belonging and unity within the group.
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Financial Services
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Warranty First

Warranty First builds stronger relationships between its people and teams through a variety of team building days and evenings. The organisation also has in-office ping pong tables where employees take part in friendly competitions during breaks.
The leadership team at Warranty First ensures that there is clear communication between all levels of the organisation through regular team meetings and buzz sessions where KPIs and targets are filtered down to individuals.
Management and leadership skills are provided through Warranty First’s inhouse HR consultant. Courses include subjects such as the right to manage, the legal context, emotional intelligence, absence management, wellbeing, and Equality, Diversity and Inclusion.
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Technology
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Utilize Plc

Utilize’s Private Healthcare encourages staff to look after their well-being in many ways. It offers discounted gym memberships, discounts on fitness trackers and activewear, and free health checks. It also offers free annual subscriptions to wellness mobile apps such as Headspace and discounted spa breaks.
Each team in the business is given a quarterly budget to spend on a social outings. Previously, teams have been on dinners, lunches and brunches, spa days, Airsoft, Go Karting, Top Golf and even a rage room! The organisation actively encourages departments to team up, so that people get to spend time with different people.
Utilize supports and promotes employee growth and development in various ways, providing regular feedback to help employees identify their strengths, areas for improvement, and career goals. This is called the One Page Plan held every quarter. Employees are encouraged to pursue their interests and passions and to take on new challenges and responsibilities.
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Leisure & Hospitality
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Alexandra Palace

Alexandra Palace provides its employees with a range of health and wellbeing benefits, including: eyecare and glasses reimbursement; free flu jabs; access to Validium, the Employee Assistance Programme that provides a free, confidential 24-hour counselling and advisory service; free staff meals when working on events; and subsidised weekly fitness classes.
All employees can enjoy discounts at the onsite cafes, restaurants, and bars with their staff pass. Every Friday, employees receive 50% off at the Pheonix Bar & Kitchen. Employees can also apply for free tickets to events and backstage bar passes.
Alexandra Palace brings its people together every year for its annual summer and Christmas parties. It further runs ‘Friyay socials’ and a number of crafting, music, and exercise groups that all staff are encouraged to join.
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Education & Training
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Exeter Students' Guild

The Guild brings teams together to celebrate their shared success, such as on its annual all-staff day where staff can choose to take part in a range of activities - from bowling and rock climbing, to crafts, wellbeing walks, expert talks and massages.
Exeter Guild place a huge focus on developing future leaders. Every person that joins the Guild as a non-manager attends a 3-day leadership programme that focuses on ‘Grip Self, Grip Team, Grip Task’. It’s about taking personal responsibility, finding your ‘why’ and seeing yourself as a leader in the organisation and beyond.
The Guild is committed to minimising its environmental impact wherever possible. This is achieved strategically and operationally through an Environmental Management System, but crucially includes educating members about ways in which they can improve their impact on the environment. Furthermore, the Guild facilitates and supports environmental initiatives and provide volunteering opportunities for its members.
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Business Services
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Wunderkind

The organisation believes that success is driven through open communication. It operates with a mixed model of empowered department leaders as well as key stakeholder announcements. Weekly one-on-one calls and meetings - which involve relationship building, professional support and two-way feedback - are deeply ingrained in its culture.
The organisation operates using its ‘WIIGs’ (Wunderkind Identity and Impact Groups). WIIGs give back to the employees, the community, and the business. They are a resource to help employees feel connected, valued, respected, included, and aware. Each WIIG has its own budget to achieve its purpose, support its community and to grow awareness and inclusion.
The People Team also host their own 'extra' all-hands meetings to keep employees fully informed about 'all things people' including how their feedback is being used and what's new.
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Business Services
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LumiLinks

LumiLinks brings its teams together to build stronger relationships through a number of activities and events, including hosting board games and book clubs, encouraging colleague to put forward albums of the week, pizza days, and geoguessr competitions.
One of LumiLink’s core values is to promote and support lifelong learning. Internally, it has a robust leadership training programme which is delivered through its people partners. This platform has over 400 courses that can be delivered in bitesize sessions, and includes a range of soft skills, behavioural attributes, and emotional and mental wellbeing programmes.
LumiLinks supports several causes, including sponsoring an internal project to support analytics for the visually impaired. The organisation also sponsors a grassroots football team and a London based Gaelic football team, and supports events for a cystic fibrosis charity.
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Business Services
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Opus Technology

Opus Technology does a family Christmas event each year where it purchases gifts for all the employees’ children, arranges a Santa and decorates the offices with Christmas decorations and games. Employees bring their families together for an afternoon of family fun with some added treats along the way, creating a sense of community amongst them.
Fully funded companywide social events take place three times per year, including interactive team building activities such as The Cube which bring employees together and help staff to get to know people outside of their immediate teams. Regular social events are also organised by departments across the organisation and encourage staff to build personal relationships.
Opus Technology continues to support Polar Bear International and the Kenya tree planting initiative. It has also recently donated £1700 to the Samson Centre, £2500 to Ukraine charities, £2000 to Turkey earthquake relief charities, and £2000 to Save the Children – raised through Christmas Jumper days.
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Charity's
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The Tank Museum Ltd

The Museum promotes growth through schemes like the Workshop apprenticeship, providing opportunities for hands-on experience and recognised qualifications. It also offers external management training annually for potential managers.
The Museum fosters team spirit through initiatives like mixed departmental training days and social events. Its commitment to cross-departmental communication strengthens the sense of belonging among the employees.
The Museum is committed to employee wellbeing, offering an EAP service and health cash plan scheme. It also hosts regular health and wellbeing events, recognising the importance of work-life balance.
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