I have worked for The BESA Group for 21 years, taking two periods of maternity leave and working both part-time when my children were young and full-time at present. BESA have been very supportive with my work-life balance allowing me to change my hours to help with my childcare and then to increase them when I was able to. The people who I work with are fantastic, fun loving and hard-working. I have enhanced my career with several course’s from Customer Service, First Aid and ILM – Leadership and Management to Level 2 AAT Accounting. I work with a team of 14 who are great at sharing their expertise, there is always someone to ask when I have a problem in excel, every day is a school day! I started my career with BESA working in the Finance department and spent 16 years working on the accounts for the group companies before moving to a senior position with SKILLcard in 2017. The company benefits are amazing, I get extra holidays for my length of service and we close at Christmas. I am a member of Bupa and the employment sick pay

I’ve been working for BESA as an SFG20 Technical Author since early December last year. My overall experience has been that this is a company that fully realises that its staff are the company and the benefits package and private healthcare offered reflects this. The CEO has a one to one chat with all new starters, there is a genuine desire within the staff that I have met to do a good job and a pride in the organisation as a whole. I had heard of SFG20 before I started working for BESA but I didn’t fully appreciate the care and scrutiny that is applied to every schedule that we write. SFG20 is held in high regard in the outside industry, indeed I have heard the phrase “When a company Tenders to win a maintenance contract they generally quote to maintain to the standards as laid out in SFG20”. I feel privileged to now be a part of this organisation and am proud that a Maintenance engineer will be performing a Task somewhere in a building and be assisted by our schedules. I would happily recommend BESA as a good company to work for.

‘I’ve been with BESA for coming up 11 years now and I’ve made some great friends.They are very supportive and have helped me through an accountancy qualification, having a family, changing my hours to fit in with being a parent, as well as a career change within the association into project management and doing my Prince2 foundation course.’

I have been with BESA for just over a year now, working closely with the Membership Department as part of the Customer Success Team. I enjoy every moment of working with BESA and communicating with all the different departments daily; everyone is very welcoming, friendly, and helpful. The group truly values their employees and allows us to enjoy a work life balance with the options of working from home and the summer hours scheme. The most rewarding part about my role is keeping our members happy and this drives motivation to ensure we are being the best we can be.

Speaking from my experience of working in the Penrith office of BESA, I can remember right from the beginning that everyone was very welcoming and helpful. I really appreciated the introduction of hybrid working which helps towards a better work/life balance and I also think the summer working hours is a really great policy to allow us to make the most of the summer months! I’ve been supported through training which has allowed me to progress to my current position and feel that I am a valued member of my team.

I have worked for BESA Group for over 7 years now and have never felt more valued as an employee. I have the trust and respect to work independently with great flexibility as long as the hours are done and the work is completed. I also work well and with a great team in my own department. The wider culture within the group means many of its people are both professionally approachable and personally friendly and fun to be around.