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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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Financial Services

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Harpenden Building Society

Harpenden Building Society encourages a strong team spirit. It hosts get-togethers like popular quiz nights and an end-of-year awards event, fostering a sense of belonging and camaraderie among employees.

The society provides wellbeing support via a free employee assistance programme, mental health first aiders, paid compassionate leave, and counselling support. It also offers flexible working arrangements to maintain work-life balance.

Regular business updates are shared by the Executive Committee, outlining the Society's plans, progress, and performance.

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Business Services

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Orega Management Ltd

Orega has a 'Wellbeing Board' located in the staff office. This board serves as a central hub for sharing information about various charities, support services, local exercise classes, and mental wellbeing courses. Furthermore, everyone at the organisation receives a ‘Wellbeing Day’ each year.

Orega Christmas parties break the mould of conventional office gatherings. Rather than a standard sit-down meal, the company organises a range of games and activities with chances to win prizes. This interactive approach caters to a variety of interests and ensures everyone can have a great time.

Orega’s 'Acting Up' scheme allows the organisation to offer temporary promotions to team members, providing them with a taste of the responsibilities and challenges of a new role before making a permanent shift. This 'try before you buy' approach allows employees to determine if the new position aligns with their career aspirations.

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Not For Profit Body's

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Westminster Foundation for Democracy

At WFD, wellbeing is not extra. All staff are committed to their work because the company wants to make a positive difference. Its flexible working policies are a key initiative to support the positive wellbeing of its staff. These policies aim to improve work-life balance, reduce commuting costs, and relieve staff of some workplace pressures.

The company organises an annual “Reading Week” in which it pauses its usual work to discuss what's working well in the business and where change is needed. For 2023, the theme was ‘innovation’, gathering colleagues from across the business for over four days to hear about the application and challenges of delivering results and impact.

All of WFD’s line managers are dedicated to their managerial development through an externally sourced programme. The four-module programme covers 1 - Goal Setting and Engagement, 2 - Workload Management, Prioritisation, and Delegation, 3 - Managing for Performance, including Effective Feedback, and 4 - Coaching and Development Conversations.

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Financial Services

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Zempler Bank

Zempler Bank builds team relationships through a variety of activities and events. It’s monthly huddle enable employees to hear the latest updates from the CEO and other speakers, and it organises regular team building days such as its Team Culture days, Summer and Christmas parties, and it department ‘away days’.

The organisation launched a Leadership development programme last year, ensuring investment in its senior managers' development. It also introduced a management development programme to equip its managers with the knowledge and skills needed to effectively lead, support, and engage their teams.

Zempler Bank’s Talent Referral Scheme has a community related element, whereby part of the referral is a Community Reward: giving back and supporting others in the ups and downs of life with a donation of £125 to a charity of the employee's choice, selected from the list of Cashplus Bank supported registered charities.

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Team Cohesion = Performance

Alexandra Palace

Exeter Students' Guild

Wunderkind

LumiLinks

Opus Technology

The Tank Museum Ltd

Harpenden Building Society

Orega Management Ltd

Westminster Foundation for Democracy

Zempler Bank

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