CDHT gains its best ever position in The Sunday Times Top 100 - 'Best Companies to Work For'
The biggest and most comprehensive survey of employee opinion has ranked Chester & District Housing Trust (CDHT) as 47th of the Best Companies to Work For in the UK in The Sunday Times Top 100 listing. CDHT appears for the third year running and with its highest ranking ever.
The research carried out by Best Companies Ltd., and in its tenth year, involved surveys from over 257,000 employees across the country with 1,086 entries from the crème of British business. CDHT has also attained two star ‘outstanding’ status amongst 140 of these organisations.
John Denny, CDHT Chief Executive, said:
“Being listed in The ‘Sunday Times Top 100 Companies’ alongside well known high street and boardroom names is a real achievement. To be in the list for three years running and in the Top 50 is a cracking result we can all be really proud of. CDHT’s vision is to create opportunity. We place the customer at the heart of the business, listen to our communities and our colleagues and provide training opportunities for all. We’ve worked hard to make CDHT a great organisation to work with and this award recognises this.”
Jonathan Austin, founder & CEO of Best Companies Ltd. said;
“Our role is to set a rigorous benchmark so that organisations can become even better employers. I would like to congratulate Chester & District Housing Trust on their outstanding achievement.”
Colleagues were nominated to attend the awards dinner at Battersea Evolution, London by their work colleagues across the organisation. Accompanying John Denny and Su Bramley, Deputy Chief Executive were Alison Whitehead (Housing Management), Emma Molyneux (Customer Services), Carl Talbot (TrustWorks), Steve Walker (Neighbourhood Services), Debbie Griffiths (Human Resources) Mo Limam (the Trust’s new concierge), Bob Webb (TrustWorks) and Sarah McGrady (Housing Access).
Alison Whitehead, Community Housing Officer at CDHT said:
“The evening was a great success and I felt proud to represent the Housing Trust where colleagues, as Jonathan Austin from Best Companies said, really are cherished.”
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Notes to editors
The Best Companies survey is designed to measure employee engagement and uses 70 questions to gain a comprehensive view of employee engagement across eight factors; Leadership, Well Being, My Manager, My Team, My Company, Personal Growth, Giving Something Back and Fair Deal. Every company that goes for Best Companies Accreditation is given a Best Companies Index score (BCI). This score (on a scale of 1 to 1000) is defined from employees’ responses to the sixteen key questions within the Best Companies survey. The award supplement is sponsored by the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development. More information at www.bestcompanies.co.uk
Chester & District Housing Trust (CDHT) is a dynamic and enterprising organisation at the forefront of delivering positive impacts in the communities with which it works. The Trust’s homes span six communities – Blacon North; Blacon South; Chester City Area; The Rurals; Lache and Handbridge; Upton, Hoole, Newton and Plas Newton.
Committed to the best principles of social enterprise with over 14,000 local customers in 6,200 properties and 53% of its 275 colleagues living within its communities, the Trust adheres to key commitments and principles relating to people, places, partnerships and performance which underpin the Vision to ‘create opportunity’, through its mission, ‘by doing the right thing’.
The Trust is about being transparent and accountable in everything that is done and to this end is one of the first organisations nationally to have established a Residents’ Board, with full delegated powers from the Trust Board, to direct services which impact upon their lives.
The Trust has a comprehensive development programme delivering over 330 new homes including the £12million regeneration of the Treborth Road area of Chester providing new homes for rent, sale and shared ownership, as well as a village green and wildlife habitats.
CDHT also provides services on a partnership basis, to a number of other customers e.g. Telecare services, TrustWorks Maintenance Services, Housing Options advice, waiting list management and choice based lettings to neighbouring local authorities and registered social landlords.
The Trust is rated as two Star excellent by the Audit Commission, has the highest possible rating from Telecare Services Association and is also credited Investors in People and is the overall Employer of the Year For Cheshire West. It has been in the ‘Top 100 Sunday Times best companies to work for’ in both 2008 and 2009.
For more details please visit www.cdht.org or request a copy of CDHT’s Corporate Plan 2009-2014.
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Jane Harrad-Roberts
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