2 results for month: 08/2014
Philip Baxendale Award – Championing the cause of employee ownership
Following over a decade of employee ownership at the company, Childbase Partnership is in the top 12 per cent of UK providers of childcare and education; one of only 108 UK companies to be rated ‘Extraordinary’ by Best Companies, and has won prestigious awards for quality and innovative training programmes.
Awards are great motivators but the annual Philip Baxendale Award scheme is different because it not only recognises excellence amongst the employee-owned sector’s highest performing organisations but also celebrates the individual’s role as a major player in the continuing success of their company.
Our Partnership Council – the ...
A Positive Pause
General awareness of employee ownership, particularly amongst businesses, advisors, funders and politicians has risen to unprecedented levels. Familiarity with the long termism and high productivity it delivers is also rapidly rising, buoyed by the phenomenal success of UK Employee Ownership Day 2014 last month. EO Day 2014 was the most successful single initiative ever mounted in the UK to profile the extent and benefits of employee ownership.
Critically, the evidence base about employee ownership has been getting stronger throughout this year as well. The number of employee owned businesses in the UK is growing at an annual rate of 9%. The ...