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Roots HR CIC is recruiting

December 08, 2020
by Alun Severn
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Founded in 2009, Roots HR CIC provides high quality and affordable HR services to social sector organisations. It has just announced the following vacancy: Founder and Chief Executive, Jan Golding, is leaving her employed role in April 2021 to pursue new goals, while retaining her rol
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Roots HR: trading surplus will extend free advice line for smaller SEs during Covid-19

April 23, 2020
by Alun Severn
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BSSEC member Roots HR CIC, the specialist provider of HR support for the social sector, is using its trading surpluses to extend its free HR advice line services for the smallest social sector employers. Social sector employers with income of under £50k pa can now receive up to one ho
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Roots HR teams up with NCVO to provide HR hotline

October 12, 2016
by Alun Severn
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Roots HR C.I.C has been chosen by NCVO to provide NCVO members with a free HR advice hotline. Chris Taylor, Enterprise Development Manager, NCVO says, “Roots HR offer a flexible HR Advice line service which we are delighted to have negotiated for our members, strengthening our members
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Roots HR extends free social sector training offer for new year — launching on Social Enterprise Day 2015

November 19, 2015
by Alun Severn
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Roots HR CIC is celebrating a 6th year of social impact on Social Enterprise Day on 19th November 2015 by extending its sought-after free training for 2016 with new topics, new locations and more dates. This follows the great success of last year’s training events, all funded through
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Roots HR launches FREE learning and development services for Social Enterprise day

November 21, 2013
by Alun Severn
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Not-for-personal-profit organisations can benefit from free management development opportunities, launched to mark Social Enterprise Day by twice-shortlisted consultancy of the year Roots HR CIC. Now approaching its fifth year of reinvesting trading surpluses in the development of man
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Roots HR celebrates 100th client

September 06, 2012
by Alun Severn
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Midlands based social enterprise Roots HR is celebrating this month after welcoming its 100th client to the organisation. Founded in 2009 by social entrepreneur Jan Golding, Roots HR is the UK’s first and only specialist HR provider for social enterprises and civil society organisatio
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Roots HR gains preferred supplier status for Manchester voluntary sector

April 15, 2011
by Alun Severn
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All of us at Roots HR are celebrating this week, having beaten off stiff national competition to achieve preferred supplier status for the Greater Manchester Voluntary Sector Support (GMVSS) Market Place. We’ll now work closely with GMVSS Market Place to design and deliver a ran
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Roots HR shortlisted for start-up of the year award

February 24, 2011
by Alun Severn
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Roots HR, specialist provider of HR services for social enterprise and the third sector, has been shortlisted as one of four in the ‘start-up of the year‘ category in Social Enterprise of the Year Awards 2011. We wish them every success. Winners in this, the English heat,
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Forthcoming training event — Essential HR for social enterprises

February 10, 2011
by Alun Severn
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Wolverhampton, 16th March. SEWM is offering the forthcoming training event, ‘Essential HR for social enterprises’, delivered by Roots HR CIC. Details here. Sounds seriously useful….
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Calling social enterprises — apply for Roots HR’s free one-year support package!

November 17, 2010
by Alun Severn
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Now, amid all the doom and gloom, here is a welcome good news story. Roots HR, a CIC providing HR and other services specifically for social mission organisations, has just announced that to mark Social Enterprise Day — which is tomorrow, the 18th November — it is using su
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