Three Bath area firms have been named among the best companies to work for in the South West.
The UK’s first digital green energy supplier Pure Planet and housing group Curo – both based in Bath – and Chippenham-based Good Energy, also a renewable energy firm, are included in the latest Best Company to Work For rankings.
The lists celebrate the very best in workplace engagement and are based on rigorous, independent assessments of each company’s commitment to engaging with and investing in their workforce, including anonymous staff surveys.
Pure Planet, which was set up in 2017, is ranked sixth in the South West table and was also named the third mid-sized company to work for in the UK.
In addition, the 100% renewable energy supplier was awarded Gold in the SME category, as well as being judged as the best utility company.
The accolades come a year on from Pure Planet’s second-place ranking in The Sunday Times/Best Companies Top 100 Small Companies to Work For table and being named the South West’s Best Small Business to Work For in the same awards.
Curo, which manages more than 13,000 homes across the region and builds hundreds of new ones a year, is ranked 21st in the South West as well as being judged the fifth-best housing association to work for in the country.
It also charts at number 79 in the national large companies category, which includes private and not-for-profit organisations employing between 200 – 1,999 people.
Good Energy is ranked 42nd in the region and fifth in the UK utility table.
Pure Planet people director Richard Roberts said: “At Pure Planet we constantly work to create an environment that is inspiring, motivating and meaningful, and that’s underpinned by a culture based on trust, shared values, and a desire to help create a better, more sustainable future.
“As a business, we are so much stronger when people are able to be open, when they are happy, engaged, and loving what they do. And we’re proud to be recognised for that work by the UK Experience Awards.”
The firm’s vision is to create a sustainable, compelling, mass-market company, which offers its members 100% clean, renewable power at game-changing, value-for money prices
Last month it was also named among the UK’s top 50 fast-growth tech firms.
Curo chief executive Victor da Cunha said: “We strive to be a great employer as we believe that’s at the heart of creating an effective and resilient organisation and essential in delivering our social purpose.
“Our Best Companies result for 2021 is a huge credit to every one of our colleagues at Curo. Each of them has worked tirelessly during the pandemic to keep our customers safe and provide essential services to some of the most vulnerable people in society and they have done that with positivity and a ‘can do’ attitude throughout some of the most difficult circumstances we have faced.”
The firm is involved in all aspects of social housing, care and support and community development. The housing association employs more than 600 people in careers as diverse as housing management, property repairs, surveying, house building, training, and supporting people of all ages to live independently.
Its flagship 700-home Mulberry Park development on former MoD land on Bath’s outskirts includes community facilities and open spaces as well as a range of homes for sale and social rent.
Good Energy, which launched in 1999 as the UK's first 100% renewable electricity company, is committed to giving people a job to believe in and as well as getting paid to fight climate change, employees work in a culture aligned to four values: being straight forward, fair, determined and inclusive. Employees inform what their working life looks like, with 24 employee champions across the business playing a key role in how Good Energy develops its practices. They are currently working on the transformation plan for future ways of working.
For more than 20 years Good Energy has been powering a greener world, generating energy from sun, wind, water and biomass and has its own solar and wind farms.
Today it also provides green gas, serving more than 250,000 customers in homes and businesses across the UK, supplying energy from over 1,600 independent generators and helping thousands share the energy they create.
