Real Living Wage Employer

 

 

This means every member of our team, from our back office staff in Denton to our surveyors, ventilation engineers and mould eradication operatives working in homes across the North West, will earn at least the Real Living Wage. The Real Living Wage is the only UK pay rate independently calculated each year based on what people actually need to live, covering essentials such as rent, food, transport and energy. 

 

The current Real Living Wage rate, set by the Living Wage Foundation, is meaningfully above the Government's statutory National Living Wage. Unlike the legal minimum, the Real Living Wage applies to everyone aged 18 and over, recognising that younger workers face the same cost of living as everyone else. 

 

Our business exists to make people's homes warmer, healthier and safer. We spend our days inside the properties of residents who are often themselves feeling the sharpest edge of the cost-of-living squeeze. It would be inconsistent of us to deliver that work through a workforce who weren't paid enough to meet their own. Becoming a Real Living Wage employer is a natural extension of the values we already hold: do the job properly, treat people fairly, and invest in the long term. 

 

It also reflects the kind of business we want to be in our sector. Quality, safety-critical work in social housing depends on skilled, committed people. Paying a wage that genuinely reflects living costs helps us attract great people, keep them, train them up, and deliver the standard of service our clients and their residents deserve.