Organisation Summary Business Sector:Social Care Business Activities:Support services for adults with learning disabilities, autistic adults and other people with a social care need. Business Location:Suffolk Chief Executive:Lucy Humphrey Turnover:£12.5M Employees:460 Legal structure:A registered society for the benefit of its employees, under the Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies Act 2014. An employee-owned workers Co-operative and social enterprise. Website:leadinglives.org.uk Leading Lives is a social care provider that specialises in supporting people with learning disabilities and autistic adults, as well as others with a social care need across Suffolk, in the home and in the community. It offers a range of services to meet people’s needs including day services, short break respite care, homecare, supported housing, and social work outreach services. In 2024 Leading Lives employed a dementia project to address inequities faced by people with learning disabilities as they age. This project has led to the development of new services, and resources for people with learning disabilities to gain support and understanding of what dementia might mean to them. As an employee-owned, profit for purpose social enterprise, any surplus made is re-invested back into services for customers, into the local community, or to employee owners as a small dividend. All involved in the organisation can be proud of the culture of engagement which stems from being an employee-owned co-operative. Leading Lives exists to support people to lead the lives they choose, so hearing customers’ voices is vital. The organisation is currently working to ensure that co-production is at the heart of everything it does. E3M Member Name:Lucy Humphrey Title :Chief Executive Lucy was appointed Chief Executive of Leading Lives after the retirement of its founder in 2022. She has a wealth of experience in adult social care services in Suffolk, based on many roles since 1997 in learning disability services since starting as a student in her late teens. This career path has given Lucy the understanding of what it is like to be a frontline worker and enables her to steer the organisation with confidence. Lucy is driven by equality for people with a social care need as well equity for the workforce around them, investing in people and seeing them achieve their full potential is inspiring. Lucy is passionate about Leading Lives being one of a few social care worker Coops in the UK. Having sat on the worker Coop council for Coops UK, Lucy has a great understanding about the diversity and uniqueness that this model brings. Lucy is also on the board of Care Development East, a Suffolk based business supporting and promoting excellence across the health workforce in the east of England.
Organisation Summary Business Sector:Social Care Business Activities:Support services for adults with learning disabilities, autistic adults and other people with a social care need. Business Location:Suffolk Chief Executive:Lucy Humphrey Turnover:£12.5M Employees:460 Legal structure:A registered society for the benefit of its employees, under the Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies Act 2014. An employee-owned workers Co-operative and social enterprise. Website:leadinglives.org.uk Leading Lives is a social care provider that specialises in supporting people with learning disabilities and autistic adults, as well as others with a social care need across Suffolk, in the home and in the community. It offers a range of services to meet people’s needs including day services, short break respite care, homecare, supported housing, and social work outreach services. In 2024 Leading Lives employed a dementia project to address inequities faced by people with learning disabilities as they age. This project has led to the development of new services, and resources for people with learning disabilities to gain support and understanding of what dementia might mean to them. As an employee-owned, profit for purpose social enterprise, any surplus made is re-invested back into services for customers, into the local community, or to employee owners as a small dividend. All involved in the organisation can be proud of the culture of engagement which stems from being an employee-owned co-operative. Leading Lives exists to support people to lead the lives they choose, so hearing customers’ voices is vital. The organisation is currently working to ensure that co-production is at the heart of everything it does.