UK children’s charity named employer of the year
Last week, a leading UK children’s charity was named the best charity employer at the s1 Jobs Recruitment Awards in Glasgow.
Taking place at the Double Tree Hilton in Glasgow, children’s charity Kibble, were named to be the best charity employer. Founded in 1840, Kibble works with children and young people aged between five and 26 who have experienced trauma or adversity in their lives through residential children’s houses, fostering, wellbeing services, community support, primary and secondary education, and young workforce development.
Surrounded by a vast number of other charities who do so much to help people in need, such as Quarriers, a Scottish organisations that supports adults with a disability, and Man On! Inverclyde, a suicide and prevention charity, Kibble have stated they are honoured to have received recognition on the face of ‘such worthy competition.’
The accolade comes as the charity prepares to host a special career open day on Tuesday 25th April at St Mirren’s SMiSA Stadium between 11am-2pm and 5pm-8pm. All are invited to go along and find out about the various job roles Kibble recruits for.
Chief Executive Officer of Kibble, Jim Gillespie, said: ‘This is welcome recognition for the charity’s efforts to continuously develop internal career paths.
‘We really want to make working at Kibble a career, not just a job. There’s a subtle difference between the two but the services we deliver require that distinction.
‘You need compassion, commitment, patience and understanding to help children and young people reach their potential and over the years we’ve been on a continuous journey to help our staff develop, retain and enhance those skills. It is our specialist staff team who bring Kibble’s services to life with our dedicated workforce of over 700 employees caring for more than 170 young people throughout the year.’
‘With that in mind, it was brilliant for the charity to receive this recognition from S1 Jobs, especially in the face of such worthy competition,’ Jim said. ‘I want to thank all our staff for the incredible effort they put in day in, day out. This award is very well deserved.’
At the heart of the charity, Kibble understands that the organisation wouldn’t be able to run without their staff members, so as a way of giving back to them, everyone who works there has access to a free gym membership, physiotherapy, a health cashback scheme and exclusive retail and event discounts as well as childcare savings.
Image: Kibble
