We are an award winning employee owned co-operative and social enterprise.
Employee Owned Association Awards 2019
We are delighted and very proud to have won the 2019 Public Service Mutual of the Year Award in the Employee Owned Association Awards. This national award celebrates a business that has spun out from the public sector to become employee-led and is driving great impacts within the business and the communities it serves.
Tony Carr, Managing Director, said: “This is a strong message of how well we have been doing as an organisation during a challenging time. It will take pride of place in our boardroom and will be part of our communications now and in the future.”
A strong mission and employees driving innovation for community benefit has seen Lead Lives take the title of Public Service Mutual of the Year. Judges noted: “With Leading Lives we have a mission driven organization with great business acumen driving great employee empowerment who in turn are driving more and better impacts that align with their values of support vulnerable people to live the life they choose.”
Suffolk Care Awards 2019
We are very proud to be the winners of 2 awards in the Suffolk Care Awards 2019:
• Excellent Service Delivery for The Lodge in Lowestoft
• Excellent Training Opportunities
Congratulations to all of the staff for their passion and hard work.
UK Social Enterprise Awards 2019
We were very pleased to have been shortlisted as Finalists in 2 categories in the Social Enterprise UK Awards held at London Guildhall in December 2019. last night!
Leading Lives were shortlisted for:
• Social Enterprise of the Year
• Health and Social Care Enterprise of the Year
Whilst we did not win on this occasion, the ethos and values of being a social enterprise is at the core of Leading Lives and spreads through our organisation positively complementing and impacting the valuable work that we do. We feel honoured to have been shortlisted alongside such fantastic enterprises. Congratulations to the winners and our fellow shortlisted social enterprises.
We were delighted to be named the Health and Social Care Social Enterprise of the Year in the Social Enterprise UK Awards 2015. This is a national award and a top honor in the social enterprise sector and recognises excellence and outstanding achievements by social enterprises – businesses that reinvest their profits for social good. Leading Lives beat off stiff competition from social businesses across the UK to receive the award from Lord Victor Adebowale.
The Chair of our employee board, Lucy Humphrey, has recently received the Employee Owner of the Year award in the UK Employee Ownership Awards.
Closer to home, we are very proud to be awarded the My Life, My Choice award in the Suffolk GEM Awards for our support for a long-standing customer with a terminal health condition and end of life care.
Leading Lives is a triple award winner in the Suffolk Care Awards, winning the Culture, Creativity and Activities Award for our Sudbury Green Group, our training team won the Health and Social Care Training Award and Sally Rodwell, our Sudbury Locality Manager received the Special Recomendation Award for her outstanding contribution to social care. A very big congratulations to all the award winning members of our team. More details here.
