Frameworks and Accreditations
Public Sector Frameworks
Our framework contracts provide you with quick and easy access to our staff benefits and solutions without running a lengthy tender process
We work with a large range of public sector organisations throughout the UK and are delighted to be part of these frameworks
Everybody Benefits is a framework for all eligible Local Authorities/Police/NHS/schools and other public services to use
ESPO offers you a quick, simple and competitive route to procuring various Staff Benefits schemes, from individual schemes to fully managed services encompassing:
Employee Benefits for Health, Wealth and Wellbeing framework. provides a wide range of benefits and tools designed to help employees manage their physical, emotional, mental, social and financial wellbeing.
Accreditations
We work hard to ensure we are the best we can be and are committed to constantly improving our business for the benefit of our clients. We are proud of our achievements to date
We maintain ISO 9001 certification representing our commitment to providing a quality service to our clients
We are proud of our ISO 27001 certification. Representing our commitment to alignment with information security best practice across our business
Our Cyber Essentials certification ensures we guard against the most common cyber threats in our commitment to cyber security
Our Cyber Essentials Certified Plus ensures we guard against not only the most common cyber threats, but also involves an independent technical audit of your systems to verify that the Cyber Essentials controls are in place.
The audit includes a representative set of user devices, all internet gateways and all servers with services accessible to unauthenticated internet users.
The Living Wage accreditation demonstrates our commitment to valuing our employees and ensuring they receive a living wage
We are Disability Confident Committed. We are supporting a movement of change, encouraging employers to think differently about disability and take action to improve how they recruit, retain and develop disabled people
Our WCAG Compliance demonstrates how we meet recommendations to make web contact more accessible primarily for people with disabilities but also for all users of our websites
Investors in People (IIP) is the international standard for people management, defining what it takes to lead, support and manage people effectively to achieve sustainable results. Underpinning the standard is the IIP framework, reflecting the latest workplace trends, essential skills and effective structures required to outperform in any industry. Investors in People enables organisations to benchmark themselves against the best in the business on an international scale
Associations
We are passionate members of respected associations and alliances; we are always looking to support further movements that highlight and support important issues in the workplace
We are a proud member of the EAP Association. The Employee Assistance Professionals Association (EAPA) is the world’s largest, oldest, and most respected membership organisation for employee assistance professionals, with members in over 40 countries around the globe.
EAPA UK represents the interests of professionals concerned with employee assistance, psychological health and wellbeing in the UK.
https://www.eapa.org.uk/about-us-employee-assistance-in-the-uk/
The Zero Suicide Alliance (ZSA) is a collaboration of National Health Service trusts, charities, businesses and individuals who are all committed to suicide prevention in the UK and beyond. We are part of this alliance of people and organisations coming together around one basic principle: Suicide is preventable
https://www.zerosuicidealliance.com/
The Cycle to Work Alliance is a policy-focused coalition of the five largest providers of the Cycle to Work scheme: Cyclescheme, Cycle Solutions, Evans Cycles, Halfords and Vivup. Together, we represent around 80% of the Cycle to Work scheme market and since 2010, we have worked hard collaboratively to highlight the many benefits of regularly cycling to work.
http://www.cycletoworkalliance.org.uk/
Employee Benefits Awards
We are thrilled for our SME client, Lindsay & Gilmour Pharmacy, who fought off tough competition from large global organisations to win big at the recent Employee Benefits Awards 2021 for Best Benefits Communications
We have been provider to winners for three consecutive years at the Employee Benefits Awards!
Lindsay & Gilmour are one of Scotland’s oldest independent community pharmacy groups and have remained fully open throughout the Covid-19 lockdown and pandemic. To help thank their people for their hard work, dedication and commitment they introduced the Vivup highfive Recognition and Reward app, alongside a well thought out digital communications campaign that resulted in fantastic take up and an award win!
Our client Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust won Best Voluntary Benefits at the Employee Benefits awards 2020. Their passion and commitment to creating a culture of physical, financial and mental wellbeing is the reason we entered them for this category and what stood out most to the judges
Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust were highly commended in the category Best Communications – Large Employer. We entered Lancashire & South Cumbria for this category following the fantastic engagement and success we saw in communicating their employee benefits
Our client Nottingham University Hospital NHS Trust (NUH) won ‘Best Benefits Communications for a Large Employer’ at the Employee Benefits Awards 2019 generating a lot of excitement in our office!
NUH embraced our communications strategy for promoting their Christmas Home Electronics scheme in 2018, and as well as receiving recognition at these prestigious awards they also posted some impressive results. Registration and participation targets were exceeded by a significant margin and 91% of NUH staff said they would reuse the scheme (vs 89% of all other NHS staff).
