COMPLY:

HR Advice and Support

Are you a social sector organisation with no, or limited, in-house HR support looking for people management and employment law advice and support?

Roots HR offers affordable HR consultancy and support delivered by social sector experts to micro, small and medium-sized social sector organisations.

We are a social enterprise dedicated to elevating people management within the not-for-profit sector and we are known for putting our clients’ interests at the heart of what we do and using our extensive HR and social sector experience to provide expert, pragmatic and value-adding advice and support.

We can provide HR advice to help your managers and leaders navigate everyday people management including:

As a social enterprise ourselves our services have been designed with our client's input, to meet their needs, and are not primarily driven by profit or shareholder return.

Why does my organisation need HR advice and support?

It can be hard to know exactly what you need to have in place to hire your first employee, and as your organisation grows you can find yourself having to deal with more and more HR matters and not knowing if your approach is compliant with employment law or best practice.

As a social enterprise ourselves, we understand the nuances of the sector and we provide affordable, accessible and high-quality HR support to help you navigate these situations and minimise people management risks.

The benefits of HR consultancy and support from Roots HR

Working with Roots HR helps ensure people management within your organisation is inclusive, fair and lawful and feels “normal” to your workforce, meaning that people management risks are minimised.

Through this approach employees, workers and volunteers are retained, service delivery is stable, recruitment costs are minimised and key talent is retained within the sector, meaning you retain more of your income for service delivery and beneficiaries.

Which organisations can benefit from HR advice and support?

Every social sector organisation can benefit from HR advice and support, whether you are a startup, growing or established organisation.

At Roots HR our services are tailored to the values and needs of micro, small to medium social sector employers with no, or limited, in-house HR support and their workforces.

Who would be advising and supporting me?

Our HR consultants are highly skilled, technically knowledgeable, friendly and professional. They all have previous experience of working in social sector organisations. This enables them to quickly understand the people issues faced by your organisation and to provide you with tailored, pragmatic advice and solutions.

What our clients say about us

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.

Gill Peele, Plymouth Energy Community

Roots provide an excellent, professional support service

Ann at Roots has supported us over the last 18 months or so. A charity becoming an employer and later on a transfer of staff under TUPE. Roots provide an excellent, professional support service and are happy to tailor it to fit our specific needs. Would recommend to anyone wanting to supplement their HR knowledge and expertise

Who we worked with

Do you offer any discounts?

A 5% discount is available on Roots HR’s hourly rate services for members of NCVO or Social Enterprise UK, Social Enterprise Mark Holders and Students/Fellows of the School for Social Entrepreneurs.