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:£10.3M Employees:420 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 service that supports people with learning disabilities, autism and other social care needs across Suffolk in the home and in the community. As an employee-owned, profit for purpose social enterprise, any surplus made is re-invested back into services for customers, in the local community or to employee owners as a small dividend. The organisation is proud of its culture, which stems from being an employee-owned co-operative. Employees can get involved in decision making and have their voices heard through a range of channels. These include the Shareholder Council, who actively engage with team members and ask their opinions. Leading Lives exists to support people to lead the lives they choose, so hearing customers’ voices is vital and the organisation is currently working to ensure that co-production is at the heart of everything it does. E3M Member Name:Lucy Humphrey Title :Managing Director Lucy was appointed Managing Director 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 within provider services over her 25 years 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 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:£10.3M Employees:420 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 service that supports people with learning disabilities, autism and other social care needs across Suffolk in the home and in the community. As an employee-owned, profit for purpose social enterprise, any surplus made is re-invested back into services for customers, in the local community or to employee owners as a small dividend. The organisation is proud of its culture, which stems from being an employee-owned co-operative. Employees can get involved in decision making and have their voices heard through a range of channels. These include the Shareholder Council, who actively engage with team members and ask their opinions. Leading Lives exists to support people to lead the lives they choose, so hearing customers’ voices is vital and the organisation is currently working to ensure that co-production is at the heart of everything it does.