Congratulations to Longhurst Group for achieving the IiE Standard

Congratulations to Longhurst Group - Corporate Services for achieving the Investors in Excellence Standard

Longhurst Group is a leading independent provider of housing and care services owning and managing over 16,000 homes across the Midlands, the East of England and the Yorkshire and Humberside regions. Longhurst Group is made up of 4 member companies Friendship, Care and Housing, L&H Homes, Spire Homes and Keystone Developments.

Longhurst provides an extensive range of services to help older and vulnerable people live as independently as possible, either in their own homes or in supported housing.

Longhurst Group’s Corporate Services Team have been successfully recognised as Investors in Excellence.

The Corporate Services Team at Longhurst Group provide a wide range of services to its member companies through annually negotiated service level agreements tailored to individual organisational needs. With teams based at offices across the East and West Midlands, it also provides a number of services to external organisations at competitive rates.

Below are some examples of the services provided: Strategic support, Development and regeneration, Financial and business support Human resources, Health and safety, Sustainability , ICT, Marketing and communications.

Bob Walder, Chief Executive, Longhurst Group commented, “Working with IiE has helped us develop a simple framework to measure our performance, helping us to assess and re-assess that everything we do takes us further along the path to Excellence.”

Many people have been involved in the preparation for the accreditation so there is a great collaborative team spirit which will continue to be channelled as they prepare the action plan for re-accreditation in two years time.

“IiE present Excellence as a no nonsense common sense approach to effectively managing your business. The Standard gives us recognition amongst our peers that we are doing a great job in extremely difficult times. It helps sets us apart from our competitors.”

Congratulations once again to Longhurst Group - Corporate Services!