Roots HR CIC is the UK’s specialist consultancy for human resources for the social sector.

Why choose Roots HR?

Expert

The services we provide are tailored to the needs of our clients, aligned to their respective cultures and delivered by qualified HR professionals who have all previously worked within the social sector.

Affordable

As a social enterprise ourselves, we understand the importance of offering affordable, expert support with no long-term commitments.

Driven

We are dedicated to elevating people management within the not for profit sector.

How our HR Consultants can help

We use our extensive HR and social sector experience to provide expert, accessible, pragmatic and value-adding advice and support.

HR ADVICE & SUPPORT

Our HR Consultants can provide expert advice and support to help your managers and leaders navigate everyday people management issues through COMPLY, our HR advice service, or smaller projects including recruitment, HR documentation, salary benchmarking and auditing your HR processes and procedures.

HR PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Our HR project management service, PERFORM, enables us to scope, plan and deliver your one-off HR project. This could be providing support with, pay and benefits, organisational strategy or change programmes, workplace investigations, disciplinaries, grievances and more.

LEARNING & DEVELOPMENT

Our learning and development service, GROW, offers a range of HR topics to upskill your managers and leaders including equality, diversity and inclusion, mental health at work, discipline and grievance, inclusive recruitment and selection, managing performance and more. In all cases, we work with you to fully identify your learners’ needs and to make sure that our services deliver the required development outcomes.

What our clients say about us

Jo Harper, CEO, Gateway Family Services CIC

Roots was great and saved us a lot of time.

We used Roots HR to support with a recruitment campaign – the process was straightforward, and we attracted better candidates than previously. Roots HR also handled shortlisting and admin around interview set up which was great and saved us a lot of time.

Islington Centre for Refugees

Knowledgeable, supportive and caring consultants

Excellent company with knowledgeable, supportive and caring consultants. They really helped us move our projects forward and provided professional and well researched advice

Charity CEO

Roots HR are always helpful, practical and quick

The COMPLY service has been so useful to our charity (with 12 staff) over the last year and Roots HR are always helpful, practical and quick to respond.

Paul Morrish, CEO, LandAid

Prompt, but never at the expense of careful

Roots are a great team, each member of which properly gets the challenges and needs of third sector and SME businesses. They’re super prompt, but never at the expense of careful, considered and comprehensive advice and guidance. They also happen to be a really lovely bunch of people too. A pleasure to work with!

MJ Prior, Charity Trustee

The information, advice and support were all invaluable

We asked Roots HR to help us review our current contracts of employment and any benefits we could offer our staff within our current HR practice and financial constraints. The information, advice and support were all invaluable. They spent the time to talk in-depth with us about our current processes and future development so that all the advice given was specific to our charity’s needs and will now inform our policy reviews. Our contracts are all revised and we are confident that their clarity and detail will benefit our employees and reassure our trustees. A good experience and worth the investment.

Emma, UK based charity employee

Roots HR provided a fantastic service to our small charity

Tracey from Roots HR, provided a fantastic service to our small charity. Thoroughly reviewing all of our employment policies and procedures to then recommend changes to contracts, an additional of a staff handbook and additional policies. She patiently answered all of my questions and took the time to understand the workings and ethos of our charity. I would wholeheartedly recommend Roots HR.

Jo Harper, CEO, Gateway Family Services CIC

Roots was great and saved us a lot of time.

We used Roots HR to support with a recruitment campaign – the process was straightforward, and we attracted better candidates than previously. Roots HR also handled shortlisting and admin around interview set up which was great and saved us a lot of time.

Islington Centre for Refugees

Knowledgeable, supportive and caring consultants

Excellent company with knowledgeable, supportive and caring consultants. They really helped us move our projects forward and provided professional and well researched advice

Charity CEO

Roots HR are always helpful, practical and quick

The COMPLY service has been so useful to our charity (with 12 staff) over the last year and Roots HR are always helpful, practical and quick to respond.

Paul Morrish, CEO, LandAid

Prompt, but never at the expense of careful

Roots are a great team, each member of which properly gets the challenges and needs of third sector and SME businesses. They’re super prompt, but never at the expense of careful, considered and comprehensive advice and guidance. They also happen to be a really lovely bunch of people too. A pleasure to work with!

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