15 Mar 2011
SOCIAL HR BUSINESS SHORTLISTED FOR TWO NATIONAL ENTERPRISE AWARDS
Jan Golding of Roots HR Community Interest Company, is celebrating success after being shortlisted for her second award in two weeks. Already nominated for Start-Up of the Year at the Social Enterprise Awards, the company has just been shortlisted for Social Enterprise Mark Holder of the Year.
Organised by the Social Enterprise Coalition, the UK's national body for social enterprise, the awards recognise the achievements of the company as a commercial business with social purposes at its heart.
Roots HR is the UK's first and only human resources consultancy set up as a social enterprise to specialise in delivering services to charities, voluntary and community organisations, social enterprises and third sector organisations.
Jan Golding, Chief Executive of Roots HR said: "Everyone at Roots HR is thrilled to have been shortlisted for the Social Enterprise Mark Holder of the Year award. The Social Enterprise Mark is important to us as a business because it's a way for potential clients to see that we're not just a standard commercial business. We're dedicated to the social enterprise model of trading which puts people rather than profit at the heart of everything we do."
The overall winners will be presented with their awards at a ceremony to be held at the O2 London on 30th March, where Leader of the Opposition, Ed Milliband, will speak and present the Best Social Enterprise Award.
The Social Enterprise Mark is the quality assurance mark for the sector, and is only awarded to organisations that meet vigorous assessment criteria drawn up by leaders on a Government level. By purchasing from a business which holds the Mark, buyers know that they are purchasing products or services from a company that operates ethically and for the good of society and communities as a whole.
Social enterprises are businesses with primarily social objectives and are driven by the need to reinvest profits for the benefit of the community rather than to maximise profits for shareholders and owners. There are 62,000 social enterprises in the UK, contributing over £20 billion to the economy and employing nearly a million people.
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