We proudly offer a comprehensive range of employee benefits; these include a 35-hour working week, hybrid and flexible working and reasonable adjustments, additional holiday entitlement that is accrued with length of service, enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave, clear job descriptions, an employee assistance programme which includes access to Occupational Heatlth, and monthly wellbeing webinars from our external healthcare provider.
We also recognise that line managers are crucial to the employee experience and our HR team offers – in addition to our external programme – an opportunity for training and coaching to develop line manager capabilities.
In October 2025, AKW invited Dan Rowe from charity Andy’s Man Club to attend a departmental meeting with some of our field-based colleagues, who primarily work alone and spend long hours travelling across the country to visit customers.
Andy’s Man Club are a men’s suicide prevention charity who provide over 270 free-to-attend peer-to-peer support groups across the UK and online, which are run by more than 2,500 volunteers. With over 5,800 attendees every week, the charity wants to end the stigma surrounding men’s mental health and help men with the power of conversation. Their aim is simple, to help one guy, to save one life, and the only rule is that it’s okay to talk.
While Dan’s attendance at the meeting was a surprise, management have since received incredibly positive and heartwarming feedback from colleagues involved:
“Just wanted to say to thanks to Dan Rowe for the meeting about male suicide, it was really helpful and eye-opening. I really appreciated you sharing information about where we can go if we ever need support. It’s reassuring to know there are places locally we can turn to. Thanks again for creating space for such an important conversation.”
“Thank you to Dan from Andy’s Man Club for the chat we had last night. It was really relaxed and helpful. It was also good to know that there is a place that I can go to when I feel like there is nowhere else to go. I now feel like I would be able to attend one of the group meetings knowing how relaxed it would be and not being judged by other people.”