City Health Care Partnership celebrates first Employee Ownership Day
03 July, 2013
As one of the region’s foremost employee-owned organisations, City Health Care Partnership CIC (CHCP CIC) is celebrating the first Employee Ownership Day on 4 July 2013.
Formed in June 2010 and employing over 1,400 people, CHCP CIC is the parent "for better profit" co-owned business of a group of established and developing businesses, providing community health and social care, primary and specialist care primary health services to over half a million people in Hull and the East Riding of Yorkshire.
All permanent members of staff are invited to become shareholders in the company and their £1 stake gives them a say in how the organisation’s performing and running through the Shareholder Forum. All CHCP CIC’s profits are reinvested into improving services, staff development and the local community.
Chief executive Andrew Burnell said, ‘We are proud to celebrate employee ownership alongside other staff-led businesses across the UK. Our staff shareholders are a vital part of CHCP CIC and being an employee-owned organisation is fundamental to our success, because our colleagues really feel they have a stake in the business; it’s everybody’s business. Being an employee co-owned business is an excellent opportunity and commitment for us all to be part of something special and unique in the delivery of the highest quality health and wellbeing services to the community.’
Employee Ownership Day is being organised by the Employee Ownership Association and chief executive Iain Hasdell said, ‘Companies such as CHCP CIC are great examples of the success and engagement that be achieved in an employee owned environment. I am delighted to work on their behalf to celebrate Employee Ownership Day and make it easier for other UK companies to follow their lead.’
Unit Support Worker Trevor Beadle really values being a staff shareholder. ‘Being a shareholder makes you feel you have a stake in the business, so the more you can do, the more successful it’ll be. Everyone is working for the same goals and people have a bit more interest in doing a good job.
‘In most companies, shareholders are people who take something out but at CHCP, shareholders are the ones who put something back.’
