Digby Morgan is delighted to announce that it has extended its links with the charitable sector through a new partnership with leading homelessness charity Broadway.

Broadway is a particularly good match for Digby Morgan given its focus on excellence and best practice in HR within the charitable sector. Such is its recognition within the charitable sector, that Broadway’s HR department itself now offers HR training, support and consultancy to other charities and has won a string of accolades and awards during the past few years. These include The Sunday Times Top 100 Companies, Best Companies to Work for, the HR Excellence Awards and the 25 Most Influential in HR. Additionally, Broadway’s HR director, Helen Giles, was recently awarded an MBE for her services to homeless people.

Digby Morgan will work with Broadway to offer it support and professional counsel with its HR service. As a result, Digby Morgan will enable Broadway to meet its targets and continue its mission to improve HR practice across the whole charity sector.

Broadway’s excellent reputation has been earned as a result of an innovative and personal approach to all their work – both in HR and in providing services for homeless people. One particular project, with which Digby Morgan will be involved, is Broadway’s ‘Leading Places of Change’ scheme which will be delivered in partnership with Communities and Local Government. Broadway was asked by Central Government to devise and deliver a recognised vocational qualification for hostel managers. This follows investment from the Government in hostel building, the idea being to create inspirational spaces which motivate people to make positive changes in their lives. Broadway’s training programme is intrinsic to the success of ‘Leading Places of Change’ and encourages managers to become real instigators of positive change within their organisations. No easy task considering many have been working in the same way for years.

Broadway’s Deputy Director of HR Richard Banks, who developed the training, said: “We’re absolutely delighted that Digby Morgan has agreed to support us – and specifically with this programme. For those being encouraged to change their working practices it will undoubtedly be very helpful to have a corporate and commercial perspective of those who have experienced real change within their organisations.”

Digby Morgan’s CEO, John Maxted, who, along with other senior company managers will be involved in this programme and will lead relevant workshops, said: “we’re thrilled to be working with Broadway on this programme. Homelessness is still such a huge issue in this country so I’m delighted that we can make a relevant, professional contribution above and beyond the usual donation of funds and, in addition to this specific project, many of the Digby Morgan team will voluntarily be donating their time and efforts in many other ways to support the charity with events, collections and the like.”

Broadway is a leading homelessness charity working directly with 3,000 vulnerable individuals in London each year. Through its training and consultancy work with local authorities and smaller homelessness organisations, it indirectly supports an additional 10,000 homeless people throughout the UK. Broadway also runs a subsidiary company called ‘Real People’ which offers training and consultancy service to improve HR practices within smaller organisations.

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