Christian Charity Crowned UK’s Best Small Company

A Christian charity has been recognised as offering the best working environment of any small company across the UK. Christians Against Poverty (CAP), the national debt counselling charity, was voted The Sunday Times ‘Best Small Company to Work For’. Now in their sixth year, the ‘Best Companies Awards’ have come to be recognised as the benchmark for all that is outstanding in terms of working environment. With employees anonymously answering wide-ranging surveys about their company, the results provide a vital insight into the inner-workings of many organisations across the country in an unbiased way.

Matt Barlow, CAP’s CEO, said: ‘We have shown very clearly that as God’s people, we can lead the way in terms of creating a stimulating and dynamic working environment that expects the best from our employees but gives the most fantastic support; something that will make the secular world sit up and listen.’

CAP, which operates through a national network of 67 debt counselling centres across the UK, was particularly praised for its leadership, with 97% of employees rating the quality of management as good or excellent. Personal Growth was another area that was singled out by employees as being excellent, with 95% agreeing that the job was good for their personal growth.

The charity, which has its headquarters in Bradford, has undergone a period of expansion over the past couple of years and now boasts an annual turnover of around £5 million. Through CAP’s unique approach to debt counselling, many become Christians and its specialist service has received widespread praise from both secular and Christian circles for its quality.
Matt continued: ‘Words can’t describe how happy we are to receive this award. So often Christian organisations are seen as either amateurish or out of touch with the real world. ‘Our charity exists because people across the UK are imprisoned by debt and everything we do is driven by the fact that we are called to reach out to these people with a practical demonstration of Jesus’ love.’