Fifth Round Projects (The Partnership At Work Fund) page 2

Yorkshire and Humberside:

Champions of People

NHS Professionals (West Yorkshire Metropolitan Ambulance Service NHS Trust), the NHSU, the GMB, UNISON and the Royal College of Nursing are working together to reform and modernise traditional joint consultative mechanisms.

They aim to influence and develop the discretionary behaviour of middle managers, so that they become the 'champions of people' and nurture a partnership approach, as well as strengthening the presence, role and competence of union reps. They intend to establish key performanceindicators in order to support and quantify reduction of people related conflict.

Sector: Health and Social Work (NHS Trust)

Number of Employees: 360

Project Grant: £49,899

Working together to secure the future of LBD

La Baguette Doree with BFAWU hope to develop a joint framework of communication, training and involvement. This framework will involve all parties within the organisation and will focus on improving the business 'key performance indicators' from their current 'below average' levels to 'World Class' levels.

Sector: Other Services

Number of Employees: 250

Project Grant: £44,500.00

Employee Engagement in A4e Work

A4e will be working with employees to establish processes for informing and consulting staff on the future of the company. The project will involve the design, launch, establishment and assessment of an employee engagement process.

Sector: Training

Number of Employees: 837

Project Grant: £11,700.00

Community Company Governance Project

School Trend Ltd with Sheffield Hallam University will be researching alternative forms of corporate governance involving partnership between the workforce and employers, in order to produce their own legally binding governance model building on the Community Company ethos. They intend to set up a council which involves elected representatives of employees and which will make policy and procedural decisions on areas such as fair pay.

Sector: Manufacturing

Number of Employees: 110

Project Grant: £17,424.00

A Partnership Approach to Alternate Dispute Resolution in the Workplace Through an Advisory and Mediation Service

City of Bradford Metropolitan District Councilwill be working with UNISONin order to facilitate a change in the organisations ethos so that a cooperative approach is used to handle all workplace difficulties. They will seek to enhance and expand the Advisory and Mediation Service by having a volunteer advisor mediators cohort, thus ensuring more of a representative workforce.

Sector: Local Government

Number of Employees: 14752

Project Grant: £46,158.99

Releasing the Bottleneck

The Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust in partnership with staff aims to implement a culture change programme and develop partnership working. All managers and staff will attend a 3-day partnership workshop facilitated jointly by management and staff side representatives. A joint steering group will manage this venture, and set up sub-groups to address specific partnership assignments.

Sector: Health & Social Work

Number of Employees: 13033

Project Grant: £24,173.00

Working Together

Sheffield Hallam University is working with the Joint Union Committee to build on the partnership process already in place by extending it to involve all employees.

A survey will be carried out in order to ascertain how employees wish to be informed and consulted in the future. The aim is to develop an overarching information, consultation and participation framework agreement. The agreement will need to have the support of all employees and will meet the requirements of the new information consultative legislation.

Sector: Education

Number of Employees: 3800

Project Grant: £49,763.00

Let’s Work Together!

Millenium Chemicals Ltd and their staff hope to create a positive working environment with improved communications, improved problem solving abilities and empowered local teams who create win-win situations. Other areas of development include improving working relations and team dynamics and the development of Millenium Chemicals own management style.

Sector: Manufacturing

Number of Employees: 450

Project Grant: £50,000.00

Partners Promoting Partnership

Calderdale and Kirklees NHS Primary Care Trusts with AMICUS, Local Community and District Nursing Association, Local Royal College of Nursing and UNISON are striving to achieve a transformation in the employee relations' environment by breaking down traditional barriers. They will internally recruit and train four individuals to fulfil the role of general union convenor. They will endeavour to develop a network of non trade union accredited staff advocates amongst their workforce. The latter will assist them in their desire to develop a positive work culture in which there is a significant reduction of incidences of bullying and harrassment. They also intend to improve two-way communication for managers and staff both horizontally and vertically throughout the organisation.

Sector: Health & Social Work

Number of Employees: 1152

Project Grant: £50,000.00

Wales

Control Techniques Partnership Programme

Control Techniques with their staff are looking to create an environment where individuals at every level feel empowered and are able to contribute to the continued growth and success of the organisation.

Sector: Manufacturing

Number of Employees: 398

Project Grant: £50,000.00

Let’s all Work Together

Cardiff Chamber of Commerce with The Cardiff Initiative aim to set up inclusive consultation action groups which will represent the organisation as a whole at all levels, they will serve to update on all areas of the business. This partnership will also be running a biannual Group Planning Conference. Both organisations are committed to delivering coherent training programmes for all divisions to ensure staff gain necessary skills to work in partnerships and develop the whole group.

Sector: Other

Number of Employees: 23

Project Grant: £49,900.00

Addressing our Staff’s Well Being Together

Gwalia Housing Group will be working with UNISONand GHG representatives to undertake a stress survey for employees. The survey will allow them to identify which areas of general health and well being they need to improve.

Sector: Other