Alternative Futures Group
Alternative Futures Group (AFG) is a large, not-for-profit health and social care charity in the North West of England. They specialize in supporting individuals with learning disabilities and mental health conditions. AFG provides a range of services, including supported living, outreach, and residential care, with a focus on promoting independence and community inclusion.
Years awarded: 2022, 2025
Region: North West England
Size: 1000+ employees
Sector: Charities and not-for-profit
Embedding values through virtual induction
Themes: Apprenticeships; Onboarding
This health and social care organisation has transformed its onboarding in a challenging sector. Designed to be flexible, inclusive and CPD-accredited, the online programme has improved retention, boosted promotion rates and greatly reduced the use of agency staff. Staff satisfaction scores exceed targets and neurodiverse facilitators tailor delivery to individual needs. A move to online training has led to carbon savings of 39.4 tonnes and vacancy rates have also halved.
Accelerating new starter competency
Theme: Onboarding
Topics: Bespoke training
This health and social care charity needed to implement training to support its recruitment plans whilst addressing delays in training new starters. Through maximising virtual learning, the innovative training programme has been completed by 681 new starters in the last two years, attaining earlier competence levels through reduced waiting and completion times. Additional benefits have included cost savings of £27k+ per annum, improved audit compliance and enhanced efficiency.
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HRH The Princess Royal celebrates best-in-class workplace training in 10th anniversary year for Awards
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Celebrating 46 UK organisations who have outstanding workplace training programmes with HRH The Princess Royal
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Outstanding workplace training programmes recognised in HRH The Princess Royal’s training awards
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