UK ASSOCIATION OF THE YEAR (OVER 500 MEMBERS)
Chartered Institute of Payroll Professionals
The Chartered Institute of Payroll Professionals (CIPP) is the Chartered Institute for payroll, pensions, and rewards professionals in the UK. and is dedicated to raising the profile of payroll in business across the UK and internationally.
The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) was the government’s primary mechanism for financially supporting the UK’s working population during the pandemic. The CIPP has been fundamental in supporting not only members, but the entire payroll community in understanding, communicating, and implementing the CJRS and its revisions at incredible speed. With 11.9m people having been placed on furlough and therefore eligible for CJRS, the CIPP has been integral in supporting the economy and keeping the UK paid.
Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
We are the voice, partner and benchmark for the people profession. For over 100 years we’ve championed better work and working lives, for the benefit of people, organisations, economies and society. Our mission is to build the world’s most influential community of experts on people, work and change – united by a common goal to make work better, led by the highest standards of professionalism and enabled by world-class learning and support.
We’ve stayed true to our purpose, growing our community in strength and number, and investing in our profession’s ability to drive positive change. We’ve kept the spotlight on the case for better work, influencing policy and raising awareness on employment issues from furlough to flexible working and in-work poverty to inclusion. We’ve clarified our members’ career paths, underpinned by our new qualifications framework, virtual learning hub and professional standards, now adopted by 22,000+ people professionals across 220+ employers.
In recent years our growing community of 160,000 members has stepped up as never before. People professionals remain at the side of employers through ongoing uncertainty, supporting and advising on every possible employment issue and improving the working lives of millions of people.
Federation of Master Builders
From humble beginnings, the Federation of Master Builders (FMB) is today the largest trade association in the UK construction sector. We’re proud of our history and our enduring commitment to helping quality small and medium-sized building companies thrive.
In 2021, we celebrated our 80th anniversary with a wealth of improvements to business processes, innovations in member engagement, and successes in our campaigns to benefit the wider construction industry and consumers. We did this alongside considerable focus on supporting our people, our efforts here being recognised with the award of ‘Gold’ Investors in People for the first time.
This year the FMB achieved our long-sought target of ensuring all our members are inspected. We saw a 477% improvement in our click through rate on member newsletters, with targeted, better quality content. Over 2,400 people watched our Master Builder Awards ceremonies, and we recruited 300 more new members than in 2020. We also secured Parliamentary progress for our campaign to improve standards across the whole construction sector, and led industry work on net zero.
This submission reflects the pride, commitment, dedication and team spirit demonstrated by all across the organisation.
National Association of Link Workers
NALW is the only professional body for Social Prescribing Link Workers in the UK. In less than four years, our successful influencing and agile strategy have seen NALW grow into an independent, sustainable, and widely recognised organisation. We’re a genuinely ground-breaking Association; working collaboratively with our members and partners, we have successfully created the demand for the profession and achieved a compelling scale of influence, leading to increased investment in social prescribing link workers. As a creative disruptor, we launched our annual #LinkWorkerDay campaign in 2019, incorporating our annual conference and awards. Despite covid19 challenges, in 2021, our unstoppable serial successful campaign was still a success; it received key industry media headline coverage, over 4 million Twitter impressions, a support message from the Minister for Health, and made the UK twitter trend. This year #LinkWorkerDay2022 takes place on the 19th of May, in partnership with The Healthcare Show at ExCel, London, the largest gathering of healthcare leaders, demonstrating our successful influence and impact. Our ever-passionate CEO is among the Health Service Journal Power list of 50 Black, Asian, and minority ethnic figures who will exercise the most power and/or influence in the English NHS and health policy.
National Hair & Beauty Federation
Established in 1942, the NHBF helps Members to run successful and profitable hair and beauty businesses, evolving its support to match the fast-changing needs of a highly creative industry. To change the Government’s understanding of its sector, the NHBF had to change its own approach, drawing increasingly on new research and cross-sector collaboration. As hair & beauty businesses recover from the pandemic, the NHBF has looked to celebrate innovation within its ranks and invested to develop new services to support its Members.
National Residential Landlords Association
The National Residential Landlords Association is the UK’s largest membership organisation for private residential landlords, supporting and representing more than 95,000 members and associates.
We provide the expertise, support and resources needed to create a rental sector that works for all, representing members and promoting the contribution landlords make in the provision of safe, legal and secure homes.
The organisation was created through the merger of the National Landlords Association (NLA) and Residential Landlords Association (RLA) in April 2020. Since then membership has grown by almost 20%, with 95% saying they were likely, very likely or extremely likely to renew their annual membership.
With an average Trustpilot rating of 4.9 out of 5 stars, the NRLA offers first class customer service to members offering practical help, training, tangible member benefits and a strong political voice to challenge perceptions and bring about real change.
In the last 12 months the organisation has built on its award-winning communications output by developing a new podcast, with listener numbers growing month on month, and has expanded its training offer across a range of platforms offering online, real time training courses alongside face-to-face in-person learning.
