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10 Aug 2019

Backing for Defence community wins gold award for HCR

Backing for Defence community wins gold award for HCR

Outstanding support and commitment to Defence and the Armed Forces community, including former members of the Armed Forces and serving members’ families, has won Harrison Clark Rickerbys the highest possible award in the Ministry of Defence’s Employer Recognition Scheme.

The law firm now holds the gold award, reflecting its welcome to members of the Armed Forces community and its advocacy of the Armed Forces Covenant, which it first signed five years ago, increasing its commitment this year to the Covenant’s aims.

The award scheme acknowledges employers who pledge, advocate and demonstrate support to defence and the armed forces community and who encourage others to do the same.

Partner Richard Morgan, who heads the defence, security and the forces team and Rebecca Kirk, employment lawyer and key team member, have led the firm’s initiative.  This has included highly successful Defence and Security Expos in Hereford and Malvern in the last three years, as well as offering pro-bono legal advice, public Covenant signing days and free resettlement training for serving personnel.

HCR also employs numerous members of the armed forces community, including Veterans, Reservists and military spouses.

The Three Counties Defence & Security Expo (3CDSE) event this year included the first MoD special projects industry day held away from a military base, as well as welcoming more than 1,000 delegates from across Government, industry, the Armed Forces and law enforcement.  Those who had signed the Covenant received discounted entry and members of the Armed Forces community attended free of charge.

Richard Morgan said: “Our work in support of the serving Military, Veterans and their families is the least we can do to repay our debt to this community, and we are honoured that our efforts have been recognised in this way.

“We encourage employers to sign up to the Armed Forces Covenant whenever we can, and our own policies support Reservists, serving Military personnel and their family members in combining a career outside the forces with the flexibility they need to play their part in that community.  We are also pro-active in supporting service leavers with new ventures, creating networks and links to help their businesses to grow and thrive.”

Rebecca Kirk said: “I am delighted that we have won this award, it reflects how deeply committed we are to working with and for the Armed Forces community.  We actively welcome Service leavers and others from the Armed Forces community here – as the wife of a serving soldier myself, we know that members of the Community face barriers to employment, but the skills and qualities which they bring to a job are of great benefit to employers.  We are very glad to play our part in spreading that message.”

The Armed Forces Covenant is a mutual commitment between serving and former Armed Forces personnel and both the Government and the business community, recognising the contribution of serving personnel, Veterans and Military families to the UK.

The firm’s work within the Defence sector, now firmly embedded across the West Midlands, includes advising former military personnel who now run their own companies supplying Defence and security related goods and services nationally and internationally, as well as advising serving and former members of the military and their families on private matters.  It also provides resettlement training and welfare services and administers the Three Counties Security and Defence Group – a networking group created by SMEs for SMEs operating in the Defence and security sector.

Harrison Clark Rickerbys has 500 staff and partners based at offices in Cheltenham, Worcester, Birmingham, Hereford, the Wye Valley, the Thames Valley, Cambridge and central London, who provide a complete spectrum of legal services to both business and private clients, regionally and nationwide.  The firm also has a number of highly successful teams specialising in individual market sectors, including health and social care, education, technology, agricultural and rural affairs, defence, security and the forces, and construction.

https://www.wmrfca.org/backing-for-defence-community-wins-gold-award-for-hcr/

 

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