Social Value
Your Option is home to team members with the biggest hearts. Through our Your Option Giving Back Program, we have volunteered countless hours of our time to support causes and the communities we serve.
SV Committee:
Your Option’s Social Value Committee was launched in December 2021. We wanted to ensure social value is represented across all our service lines, and incorporate members from an array of backgrounds, to achieve the most powerful impact. Your Option Social Value Committee meets fortnightly to measure, collaborate and create a positive difference we can make in our communities.
Our Social Value Committee:
Your Option’s Social Value Committee was launched in December 2022. We wanted to ensure social value is represented across all our service lines, and incorporate members from an array of backgrounds, to achieve the most powerful impact. Your Option Social Value Committee meets fortnightly to measure, collaborate and create a positive difference we can make in our communities.
Apprenticeships:
Apprenticeships and learning play a key role in creating our diverse and inclusive workforce. Our dedicated Learning and Development team supports the career ambitions of younger people, delivering apprenticeship programmes to more than 100 learners last year alone.
EDI:
Equality, diversity and inclusion are key to establishing a vibrant, rewarding culture and helping our company grow in a way that benefits our business, community, people and environment. Our colleagues come from all walks of life and represent all genders and beliefs. And we make sure the companies in our supply chains take the same approach.
Championing
Locals:
Your Option recently came to the aid of London Foodbank and donated a much-needed van to help deliver food to the people who desperately need it the most. The Foodbank is a part of a nationwide network of Foodbanks, supported by The Trussell Trust, working to combat poverty and hunger across the UK.
Ex-Armed Forces Careers:
As part of our hiring policy, we provide tailored support and opportunities to those looking for a career beyond military life. Our dedication to supporting the Armed Forces community has been rewarded from the government’s Defence Employer Recognition Scheme.
Care Home Befriending:
Your Option touches communities across the breadth and depth of the UK, and we’re always looking to give back to those communities wherever we can. Whether it’s through the thousands of volunteer hours we donate to UK charities or providing employment opportunities to underrepresented groups, we’re always looking for opportunities to add social value.
Care Home Befriending:
Social isolation is a recognised concern with the elderly, and for those in our extra care schemes it can feel lonely depending on your social ability or health. Your Option recognises this and consequently volunteered time to put together a suite of activities and events to help residents in 2021. This included an art and games afternoon, reading clubs, (and hearing some very interesting stories regarding their lives)!
Christmas Toy Appeal:
During 2021 at Christmas, Your Option held a Christmas present appeal for asylum service users’ children. This was one of the main centres of activity by our Social Value Committee in December. The approach to this piece of work was undertaken through developing the relationship with the Baby Bank to ensure that a steady stream of toys, donations, funds, and other in-kind resources were supplied.
