Roots Human Resources CIC

Roots HR is the UK’s leading specialist provider of HR services to social sector employers. We are founded on the belief that social sector organisations of all sizes should have access to high quality, tailored, practical, legally sound and affordable human resources advice and services. We recognise the challenges for such organisations in accessing appropriate services and develop our services to meet the needs of the social sector, in terms of culture, risk and scale. We are committed to supporting and improving people management and leadership in the sector with the overall aim of increasing resources available for frontline service provision.

We cover the full range of HR services from resourcing through to learning and development, employee relations, compensation and benefits, risk assessment and management, plus employee outplacement. Our consultants are highly skilled, technically knowledgeable, friendly and professional and bring with them substantial experience of having worked in social sector organisations. This enables them to quickly understand the people issues faced by organisations and the ability to provide tailored, pragmatic solutions and advice.

We recognise the financial and time constraints of the sector within which we work and in every case our approach to providing advice begins with what the organisation needs to do to achieve minimum compliance in a particular set of circumstances. Our approach is to work with our clients on a risk-managed basis; this means that we help clients to understand the range of options that are available to them, assess those options and outline potential risks, involve stakeholders as necessary and work organisations to implement the best or most suitable approach for organisations and the specific situation. With this delivery style we have enabled our clients to minimise employment tribunal liabilities and we retain 100% success rate of working with organisations in this way, meaning zero culpable employment tribunals arising from our work.

As a social enterprise, we reinvest our trading surpluses to provide free services to social sector organisations and to provide awareness and education to promote and improve people management within social society.