Roffey Park was founded by a group of enlightened and philanthropic ‘heads of industry’ with the purpose of providing management education and conducting research into questions affecting the health and well-being of people at work. As an educational charity, we seek to widen access to our services through a range of initiatives including, amongst others, making bursary places on programmes to other charities.
Roffey Park’s charitable objectives are:
- to conduct promote and support for the benefit of the public research into questions affecting the health and welfare of all those engaged in industry, commerce and the public services and particularly into questions concerning the relations between management and employees and into the application of the Social Sciences to such questions and to publish the results of such research.
- to advance education by providing training and discussion courses in all or any aspects of the science of Personnel Management for Managers, Administrators and Supervisors and others having similar responsibilities.
Public benefit
Roffey Park continues to support less well off organisations, including charities, both through preferential pricing on programmes and gifted work. The facilities are regularly hired out at reduced rates to local charitable organisations. Concessions are available in each activity and we estimate their worth to be in excess of £200,000.
Research projects continue to focus on the effects on people of change in organisational life and high performance in the workplace. Research in progress includes: the enlightened workplace; socially responsible leadership, complexity and learning in organisations, successful diversity and equality strategies and cross-cultural teams. Dissemination of information resulting from research projects was achieved by the publication of research reports and through books, articles, conference presentations, workshops and radio coverage.
Community activities
Each year Roffey Park supports many different community activities from being involved in local school initiatives to providing facilities to local business networks. Our staff also participate in numerous charity activities, raising funds for both local and national campaigns. Examples include working with Tanbridge House School in Horsham and a ‘Giving Tree’ for the local branch of NCH.
Gifted work
We have a panel which looks at requests from small to medium charities and community based organisations. One such project was with British Youth Opera which seeks to advance education through music and drama to prepare singers for the world of professional opera.
Payroll giving
We are delighted once again to have a received an award from HM Government to celebrate our success in fostering a culture of philanthropy and committed giving in the workplace, by providing a charitable payroll-giving scheme.
Annual Report and Accounts
Annual Review 2005/6
Report and Accounts for the Year ended 31 July 2006
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Roffey Park Institute Limited is a Charity Registered in England and Wales with the Charity Commission No. 254591.