{"id":19482,"date":"2023-08-14T10:00:12","date_gmt":"2023-08-14T09:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/?p=19482"},"modified":"2023-08-14T09:17:39","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T08:17:39","slug":"the-travel-franchise-rolls-out-ground-breaking-reward-wellbeing-and-development-programme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/the-travel-franchise-rolls-out-ground-breaking-reward-wellbeing-and-development-programme\/","title":{"rendered":"The Travel Franchise rolls out \u201cground-breaking\u201d reward, wellbeing and development programme"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

The Travel Franchise has announced a wealth of ground-breaking rewards, benefits and development initiatives for its staff as part of its rapid expansion.<\/p>\n

The Travel Franchise, which has doubled in size in the last twelve months – both in terms of sales and recruitment – has launched its new rewards and wellbeing programme to thank its highly skilled team, in a bid to become \u201cthe number one place to work in travel\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve been fortunate to grow at the fast pace we have due to the hard work of the whole corporate team – and so we want to say thank you. Our growth strategy isn\u2019t only about recruiting the best talent in the industry, it\u2019s about looking after the people we\u2019ve got. As a company, we\u2019re focusing far more on both customer experience as well partner experience,\u201d said co-founder Paul Harrison.<\/p>\n

The Travel Franchise\u2019s Head of People, Donna Stonehouse, conducted the company\u2019s first employee engagement survey. Some of the initiatives were designed around the feedback.<\/p>\n

The raft of wellbeing initiatives and benefits include private medical insurance including dental and optical care, life insurance, 24\/7 mental health and wellbeing support, including external mental health support for both employees and their families; readily available counselling services; specialist support lines for personal concerns – divorce, family issues, neighbour disputes, debt, grief; plus a support line for health concerns.<\/p>\n

The company also has a wellbeing platform which covers nutrition, exercise, sleep, meditation, plus a range of retail, fitness, food and supermarket discounts.<\/p>\n

As well as a commitment to continuing flexible homeworking, the company has increased its annual leave allowance by five days, plus birthdays off and the option to purchase further holiday.<\/p>\n

In addition, The Travel Franchise is giving each corporate team member \u00a3500 each year to spend on developing their own skills – either for the workplace or in their personal lives.<\/p>\n

Paul Harrison, co-founder of The Travel Franchise and its consumer-facing travel consultancy brand Not Just Travel, said: \u201cThere aren\u2019t many companies which give you \u00a3500 to learn to code, make bread or kickbox – whatever you want.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to empower people to develop their own skills and interests. We\u2019re at a size now where we can do things to say thank you that we couldn\u2019t do before. It\u2019s our way of giving back to our incredibly loyal team.\u201d<\/p>\n

Donna Stonehouse, Head of People said: \u201cWe believe in constant growth and career progress at NJT and it happens quickly when we see the right skills and attitude. We support individuals regardless of level or length of service – empowering ownership of Learning & Development and removing the red tape often associated with such opportunities. We believe it\u2019s pretty groundbreaking.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stonehouse continues: \u201cWe\u2019re giving our team autonomy over their learning and development. They can choose to spend the money on IT training, a photography or gardening course, first aid training, or a finance-related course. It could be the Headspace or Calm app; it could be an online fitness programme; an A-level or equivalent; the options are endless.\u201d<\/p>\n

One staff member said: \u201cThe Learning and Development policy made me cry. I\u2019d been thinking of doing a course to help my autistic children and didn\u2019t know how to pay for it; with the new policy, it\u2019s covered. I\u2019m so excited about it and the difference it will make\u201d.<\/p>\n

Paul Harrison concluded: \u201cOur goal is to become one of the top voted places to work in the UK. We want to create an environment when people come to us wanting to be hired, not where we have to go looking.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Travel Franchise has announced a wealth of ground-breaking rewards, benefits and development initiatives for its staff as part of its rapid expansion. The Travel Franchise, which has doubled in size in the last twelve months – both in terms of sales and recruitment – has launched its new rewards and wellbeing programme to thank […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":19483,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490,223],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-travel-franchise","category-leisure-franchises"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/2___RETOUCHED_Not_just_travel_9-5-23-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}