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Provide Community

Organisation Summary

Business Sector:Health and Social Care

Business Activities:Community hospitals and clinics, nursing homes, and primary care settings

Business Location:HQ in Colchester, Essex

Chief Executive:Mark Heasman

Turnover:£105m (2023)

Employees:Over 1,200

Legal structure:Community Interest Company

Website:www.providecommunity.org.uk

Provide Community is an award-winning Community Interest Company (CIC), which delivers a diverse portfolio of more than 40 health and social care services to a population of over 11 million people across 10 counties including Essex, East Anglia, Dorset and the North of England. It delivers a broad range of high-quality care to people in their own homes, and at locations including community hospitals and clinics, nursing homes and primary care settings.

Provide Community is the overarching group name for a number of subsidiary brands including Provide Digital, Provide Wellbeing and React Homecare (part of Provide Care Solutions).

Employing more than 1,200 staff, Provide Community is an employee-owned organisation that became a Community Interest Company in 2011, meaning all surplus profits are reinvested into the community it serves.

Over the last 13 years, Provide Community has given funding of over £4.5 million to a variety of different causes, including charities, education and community organisations, all of which prioritise the interests of the community above their own.

E3M Member

Provide Community

Name:Mark Heasman

Title :Group Chief Executive

Mark Heasman was appointed as Group Chief Executive of Provide Community in September 2020, having served as a part-time Non-Executive Director in 2014.

He has worked in a dozen global corporations, and has now turned his knowledge and skill to the health and social care sector. His corporate experience means that he can state with confidence that charity and commercial are a perfect fit.

Mark says, “Provide Community is an outstanding organisation. As a Community Interest Company, we can deliver an exciting collision of commercial dexterity and care. Our mission is to ‘Transform Lives through Care, Innovation and Compassion,’ and I believe we do that every day. Our mission and values have been tested, and the outcomes have been beyond anything I could have asked or hoped for. Investment in our people, communities, the way we work, and the organisations we work with across the NHS and care sector enable us to deliver that care, innovation and compassion even in a rapidly changing landscape.”