A CLOSE-KNIT team of 124 employees at St Nicholas Hospice Care provides specialist services for people with terminal and life-limiting illnesses in West Suffolk and Thetford. They care a lot about each other (an 89% positive score, the second highest result among small organisations) and, despite the serious nature of the work, people have fun with colleagues (86%, ranking it seventh). Since it was established in 1984, more than 50,000 families have benefited from the Bury St Edmunds-based charity's free services which include a 12-bed inpatient ward, day therapy and bereavement support. Work is important to staff (85%) and they say they wouldn't leave tomorrow even if they were offered another job (79%). Both are top 10 scores. www.stnicholashospicecare.org.uk
